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Comments by Mordac the Preventer (Top 1 by date)
Mordac the Preventer
2-Oct-23 7:34am
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I was looking to solve the same problem, and searching for other people's solutions returned this as the first answer. After thinking 'there must be a better way than that', I realised that
printf()
would do the work for me, so I added it as a potential solution. I didn't look at the age of the question, and when I entered a comment there was no suggestion that I should not do so.
I don't understand the purpose of discouraging answers to old questions - if there's a better solution it's worth listing it regardless of the age of the question, otherwise your database will fill up with old superfluous answers - but if you want to discourage "rep point hunting", perhaps the policy should be that "old questions" don't score you any "points".
Or you could manually remove the points if you think thats the motive for the post.
Or you could just criticise someone for their first posted answer and discourage them for ever using 'Code Project' ever again 🤷