Comments on: If You Don’t Date Your Work, It Sucks.

By: Mag

Mag — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:29:05 +0000

Thank You 2/18/2010

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:38:56 +0000

Exactly! If you’re reading any kind of tech article, the absence of a date makes the article generally useless.
A “wall of shame” sounds like a great idea.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:09:27 +0000

I didn’t put a date on my articles because I considered them to be timeless. Not in the sense that they’re classics, but because there are (usually) no external factors that are relevant to what I wrote. If it was about a particular quirk in a version, I would note the version.

But since it bothers you so much, I am going through my (dated) blog entries and put dates on the corresponding article pages right now. In gratitude, I only ask that you pick one of them and read it.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:35:15 +0000

It is agreed upon.

Undated articles ought to be purged with hellfire along with articles that are carved up into 9 pages so some retard can get more adsense exposure.

By: JP

JP — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:12:00 +0000

Cannot agree more. I hate hate hate hate undated works. It’s totally about trying to lure people into reading an article they wouldn’t care about if they knew when it was written.

@charlotte There is no valid reason. If you feel your article is “timeless” then add a blurb at the beginning with your rationale for this.