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[META] What is the etiquette for answering older questions?
If a question reaches a certain age, is it considered rude or improper to answer it?
I$$anonymous$$HO, nope and I appreciate the answer to my old question you just provided.
Agreed. UA is a knowledge base, meaning it is here for people to search and find answers to any questions 'young or old'.
From personal experience, it is actually frustrating doing a search, finding a similar question without an answer. So any help providing an answer is appreciated =]
I gave it the meta tag, because it's obviously related to UA.
I don't think the age of the thread matters. $$anonymous$$ost of the time you reach a thread because you googled for the problem anyway. It's not like you just read what's on the frontpage. Why shouldn't you answer a thread only because it's old?
Sounds good, thank you guys. Also wasn't aware of the meta tag usage, will keep that noted.
Answer by Eric5h5 · Jan 27, 2014 at 08:13 AM
This isn't a forum, so "necro posting" isn't really a thing here. Old questions sometimes have answers which get outdated, so new answers are fine. Or sometimes the existing answer could be improved.