Is there any policy (or existing discussion) on commenting on old posts? Is anything relevant enough to be worth adding to posts that are years old, or do you prefer that replies (across years) become their own posts linking to the original ones?
I’d generally side with “comment”, since that lets anyone else who reads the old posts see your comment, and avoids having lots of unlinked posts spring up over the years around a single central post.
If you think an older post is worth revisiting (with or without your new comment as context), you can try sharing it on social media (here’s a list of EA Facebook groups) or in the next Open Thread (I’m trying to encourage these to happen more often, since they’re useful for cases like the one you mention).
Of course, sometimes a comment winds up having enough material to be its own post, and that’s fine! I’d err on the side of “comment”, but new ideas related to an old post may well demand posts of their own.
(I work with Julia at CEA, and I help to moderate the Forum.)
Thanks for the guidelines.
Is there any policy (or existing discussion) on commenting on old posts? Is anything relevant enough to be worth adding to posts that are years old, or do you prefer that replies (across years) become their own posts linking to the original ones?
I’d generally side with “comment”, since that lets anyone else who reads the old posts see your comment, and avoids having lots of unlinked posts spring up over the years around a single central post.
If you think an older post is worth revisiting (with or without your new comment as context), you can try sharing it on social media (here’s a list of EA Facebook groups) or in the next Open Thread (I’m trying to encourage these to happen more often, since they’re useful for cases like the one you mention).
Of course, sometimes a comment winds up having enough material to be its own post, and that’s fine! I’d err on the side of “comment”, but new ideas related to an old post may well demand posts of their own.
(I work with Julia at CEA, and I help to moderate the Forum.)