New version of 5 year old question is identical. Why flag as new?
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The version comparison of this question Running the c# .exe without .net framework on machine - CodeProject[^] shows (or seems to show) that the new version is identical with the 16-Feb-11 version. Why did the system flag the edit as new if there were no changes? (Certainly not a big issue, but not what I'd have expected.)
"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed." - G.K. Chesterton
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The version comparison of this question Running the c# .exe without .net framework on machine - CodeProject[^] shows (or seems to show) that the new version is identical with the 16-Feb-11 version. Why did the system flag the edit as new if there were no changes? (Certainly not a big issue, but not what I'd have expected.)
"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed." - G.K. Chesterton
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The version comparison of this question Running the c# .exe without .net framework on machine - CodeProject[^] shows (or seems to show) that the new version is identical with the 16-Feb-11 version. Why did the system flag the edit as new if there were no changes? (Certainly not a big issue, but not what I'd have expected.)
"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed." - G.K. Chesterton
There was a new answer on that one yesterday ,and probably removed afterwards but real problem is that post and edit dates are confusing people the post date appears as a small text with a light gray color and if someone has edited a question then his username appears as edited at ### by xyz and further updates appears as made by the fist person who edited post Consider this question How to send mail using classic asp[^] Posted at 22-May-15 and probably edited by CHiLL60 at same date when you open that question first thing you will see is edited yesterday Solution 1 , caused that question to flagged as new , but it still appears as edited by CHill60 if you remove solution 1 today ,because member has posted an answer to an old question Question will be flagged as new again , and edited today by CHill60 and this will cause other members to assume that's a new question i have fallen into same situation a week ago :doh: , a spammer has posted a spam to an old question and it was removed later Then i saw that question as a new one ,and first thing i saw was edited today assumed that question updated ,and i wrote an answer to that without looking at the post date ,yes that was my mistake and i will not do same thing again but i see every day a few old questions pop up with new answers Questions should be read only after sometime ,6 months or 1 year for example A warning text could indicate that the question is pretty outdated Or at least post date could be a little big-bold and that edited field should not be updated whenever someone posts a new thing because people assume that question itself has been edited
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There was a new answer on that one yesterday ,and probably removed afterwards but real problem is that post and edit dates are confusing people the post date appears as a small text with a light gray color and if someone has edited a question then his username appears as edited at ### by xyz and further updates appears as made by the fist person who edited post Consider this question How to send mail using classic asp[^] Posted at 22-May-15 and probably edited by CHiLL60 at same date when you open that question first thing you will see is edited yesterday Solution 1 , caused that question to flagged as new , but it still appears as edited by CHill60 if you remove solution 1 today ,because member has posted an answer to an old question Question will be flagged as new again , and edited today by CHill60 and this will cause other members to assume that's a new question i have fallen into same situation a week ago :doh: , a spammer has posted a spam to an old question and it was removed later Then i saw that question as a new one ,and first thing i saw was edited today assumed that question updated ,and i wrote an answer to that without looking at the post date ,yes that was my mistake and i will not do same thing again but i see every day a few old questions pop up with new answers Questions should be read only after sometime ,6 months or 1 year for example A warning text could indicate that the question is pretty outdated Or at least post date could be a little big-bold and that edited field should not be updated whenever someone posts a new thing because people assume that question itself has been edited
The editing from me "yesterday" could well have been the marking of a answer as spam in the moderation queue - meaning that I effectively deleted an answer from the post. I've already mentioned this behaviour to Sean. If Solution 1 is removed I doubt that it will say edited by me and the date will probably update too - at least that's the behaviour I've seen on other posts. I disagree with making questions read-only as sometimes people do actually add something new or original ... or update with a solution that is appropriate to the latest version of something. I agree with the warning text. The team are looking into the updating of questions - see Sean's response at Bugs and Suggestions - CodeProject[^]
