I suspect there are many such criticisms, and that they tend not to get found, especially with older posts. Say that a post from 2017 has a subtle flaw that isn’t discovered until 2019. A comment pointing out the flaw probably gets buried under 50 other comments before anyone pays attention. A post directly responding to a 2-year-old post takes hours to write, and probably gets less attention than a new post with equal effort.
I looked at the top 10 posts from 2017; most of them have no criticisms or highly upvoted comments from the last year, and none of them have highly-upvoted criticisms. We’ve come far enough since 2017 that even if these posts were high-quality at the time, there should still be caveats for today’s readers, and I can’t find any.
Thanks. I didn’t look closely at the review project before, but it seems to be much of what I need. I wish there were some longer-term review system where we would continue putting LW1 and diaspora era content in a current context.
I suspect there are many such criticisms, and that they tend not to get found, especially with older posts. Say that a post from 2017 has a subtle flaw that isn’t discovered until 2019. A comment pointing out the flaw probably gets buried under 50 other comments before anyone pays attention. A post directly responding to a 2-year-old post takes hours to write, and probably gets less attention than a new post with equal effort.
I looked at the top 10 posts from 2017; most of them have no criticisms or highly upvoted comments from the last year, and none of them have highly-upvoted criticisms. We’ve come far enough since 2017 that even if these posts were high-quality at the time, there should still be caveats for today’s readers, and I can’t find any.
You might be interested in the 2018 Review, which spurred discussion of this sort, both as reviews on the posts and in new posts that were replies.
Thanks. I didn’t look closely at the review project before, but it seems to be much of what I need. I wish there were some longer-term review system where we would continue putting LW1 and diaspora era content in a current context.