I ' m a little confused by your comment . So this guy posted the comment in 2011 , but wrote the code in 2007 . PHP added the $ beforeneedle parameter in 2009 . So you ' re saying that it ' s odd that his comment was upvotednot removed , but may have been there to support older versions of PHP still in use . I get that . But are you commenting on the odd practices of php . net , or its users ? In other words , are you suggesting that php . net should curate their comments more rigorously , or that users often upvote comments that are no longer technically pertinent ? I assume that the user comments on the site don ' t affect the way the actual programmers make design decisions , am I right ? <| sep |> Considering how he throws Twitter temper tantrums when people are critical of him , it wouldn ' t surprise me if he did get his panties in a twist .