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Re:Evergrande teeters on edge of default as $148M payment fa... by xxpor on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @03:32PM (#29180303)
No comment on the content of the lynalden.com post (haven't read the entire thing yet), but for the love of pete, blog writers, please make sure you put a date on your posts. Especially when you're discussing something that involves current events.
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Re:Evergrande teeters on edge of default as $148M payment fa... by kipchak on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @03:53PM (#29180605)
I think she might just have forgotten to date this one? Most other articles back to 2020 seem to have publish dates. Either way this one seems to be from April 2020.
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Re:Evergrande teeters on edge of default as $148M payment fa... by ethbr0 on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @04:55PM (#29181458)
It does seem to be a trend in less-than-professional blogs.

Although I'd assume, maybe it helps with traffic? Presumably people would be more interested in reading a previous financial post, if they didn't know it was 2 years old.

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Re:Evergrande teeters on edge of default as $148M payment fa... by jessaustin on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @08:15PM (#29183296)
The "best" policy is for content to start out dated and then simply erase the dates as it gets older.
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Re:Evergrande teeters on edge of default as $148M payment fa... by joe_guy on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @08:56PM (#29183581)
An SEO scam I see some sites run is change it to an "updated at"
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