On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 6:58 AM Ankur Sinha <sanjay.ankur(a)gmail.com> wrote:
In posts related to tools, should we start including what versions of the
tools (and the Fedora release) the article refers to as a way to make
users more aware? Would that work?
That's a great idea. Then at least people have some context clues to
figure out if the post is out of date or not.
> Alternatively, and I'm not sure how much of a burden this
would be,
> but we could automatically email authors at each release cycle and ask
> them to verify that their posts are still valid and if not either
> update or apply this hypothetical "outdated" flag.
I don't know how well this will work in our community where people tend
to move on to other things, sometimes other communities. Additionally,
it has the same issue as the previous one---the editing team will have
to do more work, even if it is temporarily providing access to the
authors to edit posts.
My proposal assumes that the workflow goes something like this:
1. An editor gets a list of authors in the last 6 months (or 6-12
months ago, or whatever)
2. The editor sends a "hey, please check your articles and see if
they're still valid. if they're not update or let me know"
3. 95% of authors ignore it
4. The editor adds the outdated flag to any posts the author lists,
plus any articles reported by readers
So it is more work, but realistically probably not much more work
because most authors will ignore the request. Which is an argument
against doing it at all, but at least then we catch *some* before the
readers do instead of catching none.
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