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by wbillingsley 2416 days ago
Frankly, I don't see a problem with this if it is done consciously rather than automatically. *

Usually, I'm interested in currency not recency. If, say, a technical article was written in 2015, I don't exactly care that it was written in 2015 but do care very much whether it's outdated today or not. APIs change, etc. If the blogger has re-dated the article, that suggests they believe it is still current, which is useful information to me.

(* - Caveat: no, I've never redated a blog article myself. But I am only a very infrequent blogger anyway.)