Timeline for The Facebook HSTS question is now out-of-date
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| Jun 1, 2015 at 14:28 | comment | added | Thomas Weller | Can't questions be locked? I think I saw "locked for historical significance" or something on Stack Overflow. | |
| May 26, 2015 at 22:29 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | @RoryAlsop Someone could still post a better answer, same thing as any other question with an accepted answer. Case in point: all the current answers are lacking in that they don't explain why Facebook started to use HSTS, which would throw new light on why their arguments for using it now didn't apply or didn't carry as much weight before. | |
| May 26, 2015 at 22:16 | comment | added | Rory Alsop Mod | Why do we want new answers @gilles? As far as I can see this is done, the accepted answer is correct, and it will not change ever again | |
| May 26, 2015 at 22:14 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | @Joe No, we do want new answers. | |
| May 26, 2015 at 21:46 | comment | added | Joe | Really this isn't very different from the historical lock issue from way back when; this is a question that has some historical value, but you don't actually want new answers to, right? That's exactly what closed says to me. | |
| May 26, 2015 at 21:45 | comment | added | Joe | @Gilles I am only barely a member of this community, but for SE in general, Rory is correct; not all closed questions are intended to be deleted. See this question and in particular Shoq9's answer to it. While your opinion is represented there, it's represented by the lowest answer on the list. | |
| May 26, 2015 at 15:48 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | No, Michael is right. Closure (exclusind duplicates) is meant to be a transitory state, either towards reopening (usually after edits) or towards deletion. Closure also says “this should not be answered”. This question should be answered and should not be deleted. It should not be closed. It's still valuable now, less so than it used to be, but it's absurd to say that it's now off-topic. | |
| May 26, 2015 at 3:57 | comment | added | paj28 | @AviD - I'm cool with anything there is a consensus for | |
| May 24, 2015 at 20:56 | comment | added | AviD Mod | I think the question could still stand on its own - if the question and answers are edited to remove the focus on "why Facebook doesn't" and leave it as a general q, "Why would anyone not". I.e. the downsides to using it and possible reasons to not. @paj28 what do you think? | |
| May 23, 2015 at 15:37 | comment | added | Damian Yerrick | Deleted questions can be undeleted and historically locked. Perhaps rephrasing it as "Why was Facebook so late to adopt HSTS?" might help. | |
| May 22, 2015 at 12:21 | comment | added | Rory Alsop Mod | I think it's a valuable one as well, and worth retaining for posterity, but having it open is unnecessary. | |
| May 22, 2015 at 11:54 | comment | added | Michael | That was a quote from the answer. Anyway that's my opinion, and I'll let the community do the rest. For me it was a very valuable answer, and it would be a pity if it would be deleted. If closing is standard practice to archive questions, then that's a possibility with which I won't disagree. However, I'm strongly against a deletion. | |
| May 22, 2015 at 11:51 | comment | added | Rory Alsop Mod | If you want to take that view, anything can be deleted, but read the answer. Many posts are closed with no intention of ever deleting, as they are valuable. | |
| May 22, 2015 at 11:48 | comment | added | Michael | "Closed questions can and should be edited to improve them and address the reasons why they were closed in the first place." As far as my understanding of that statement goes, questions get closed because they are in one of the categories of questions that may get closed, meaning they can be deleted if not modified. | |
| May 22, 2015 at 11:46 | comment | added | Rory Alsop Mod | MIchael - no, if you read the answer, that is very much not what is said. In fact it is explicitly called out that there is no definite road to deletion for closed questions unless there are no answers. | |
| May 22, 2015 at 11:42 | comment | added | Michael | Closed, unless edited for reopening, is a road to deletion, as can be read here: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10582/…. While I agree that the question is outdated, I'm still convinced it is of great value to new users. | |
| May 21, 2015 at 9:36 | history | answered | Rory AlsopMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |