<story><title>Outdated Answers: accepted answer is now unpinned on Stack Overflow</title><url>https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/411352/outdated-answers-accepted-answer-is-now-unpinned-on-stack-overflow</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jabo</author><text>I asked a question about Redis back in 2010 and it’s now a popular question that keeps getting upvotes to this day.&lt;p&gt;I accepted one of the answers in 2010, but then over the years after gaining more experience in Redis myself (painfully might I add) I later realized that a more recent answer actually is a better solution.&lt;p&gt;So I went in recently and changed the accepted answer to the more recent and better one.&lt;p&gt;I felt weird about doing this given that rep points are involved, but between having someone lose rep points vs a larger group of people potentially going down a sub-optimal path, I chose the former. Anyone else feel weird about this?</text></comment>
<story><title>Outdated Answers: accepted answer is now unpinned on Stack Overflow</title><url>https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/411352/outdated-answers-accepted-answer-is-now-unpinned-on-stack-overflow</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JasonFruit</author><text>I see this as further evidence that Stack Overflow is dead.  Questions have grown old; answers refer to libraries and language features that are deprecated; it is almost impossible to remedy the situation, because new related questions are closed as duplicates, and new answers to old questions will never bubble to the top.  The best you can do is add cautionary comments to outdated answers.</text></comment>