Re:Stack Overflow Sunsetting Documentation
by tedmiston on Thursday August 03, 2017 @06:52PM
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Active sort is still based on quality -- it's not strictly most recent, but some combination of recency and votes... maybe like Reddit's hot sort.
For instance, on this question I posted a nicely upvoted thorough answer to a popular old question whose other answers were dated. By active sort it becomes #2 (#1 is always the accepted answer), but by votes sort it's #4.
The part about an old answer that was highly upvoted but is no longer right definitely exists — I'm not sure if they've thought about solving that one.
For instance, on this question I posted a nicely upvoted thorough answer to a popular old question whose other answers were dated. By active sort it becomes #2 (#1 is always the accepted answer), but by votes sort it's #4.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/695151/data-protocol-url...
The part about an old answer that was highly upvoted but is no longer right definitely exists — I'm not sure if they've thought about solving that one.