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

By: mc2w

mc2w — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:32:36 +0000

I agree. To me it also has several more negative factors:

If it’s a “hot story”, who’s to say you wrote it first? Nobody has any idea when you wrote yours, so you’re almost always excluded as the possible first source.

If the information is outdated, you may end up leading people into worse situations (due to outdated UI structures and what-not).

I totally agree with your idea here.

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.