Timeline for What do I do with a question that has become irrelevant?
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| Mar 9, 2016 at 9:25 | comment | added | MadHatter | No, and I agree with you. In the original case here, I think there is useful information in an answer that gives the question value as a whole. In the case of the VM image one you linked, I don't think there is (not least because the answer is, as it can really only be, "your question is bad and you should feel bad"). | |
| Mar 9, 2016 at 9:13 | comment | added | HopelessN00b | @MadHatter Just saying that the presence of incidental information doesn't give a question value, IMO. Not calling your position dumb or anything like that. | |
| Mar 9, 2016 at 8:24 | comment | added | MadHatter | HN, you know I'd follow you into the trenches in pursuit of bad questions, but in this case, I do think the community is making a valid point (with respect to that other question, I agree that it's worthless, and have just piled on a close vote). That said, these are judgement calls; they can lawfully be disagreed over, without the other side's point of view being prima facie dumb. | |
| Mar 9, 2016 at 7:19 | comment | added | HopelessN00b | @MadHatter There's incidental information in most every question we get, even the crap ones. That doesn't give them value. For example, you can check in VM disk images to Git. That information does not impart the question with value, however, and despite the ♦-reopen-and-answer that went on there, that question is worthless and should be nuked with extreme prejudice, even though it contains information that is new to all of us. | |
| Mar 1, 2016 at 10:07 | comment | added | MadHatter | "It doesn't look like there's much value to the existing question and answer" I'd be more easily convinced by that if we didn't have a decently-rep'ped user testifying - less than a foot above this comment - that (s)he got value out of it . | |
| Mar 1, 2016 at 7:19 | history | answered | HopelessN00b | CC BY-SA 3.0 |