[ringshall]

It might be helpful to have the age of comments listed as part of their metadata, ie alongside the date the comment was posted. Some formatting could be added (eg red highlight for comments > x years).

I know this sort of feature is useful on newspaper websites - The Guardian will flag stories older than some limit as being potentially out-of-date.

[lucb1e]

> It might be helpful to have the age of comments listed

That's... currently the case?

> red highlight for comments > x years

I don't find age has a 1:1 correlation with it being outdated. If some advice doesn't make sense to me, I'd look at the dates of this and other answers, because most often there will be newer answers (lower voted because they haven't existed as long / aren't seen as much) and/or comments added to the answer indicating how to do it in python3 or whatever the new thing is.

Sometimes posts from 2009 help me, sometimes posts from 2018 are outdated. Maybe this could work if a time limit is configured per tag, but even then, I expect it wouldn't be very helpful.

[ringshall]

>> It might be helpful to have the age of comments listed

> That's... currently the case

Is it currently the case? I'm not seeing it, though it I may be missing it.

I do see, at the bottom of comments, something like

:: edited Apr 23 '15 at 8:40 / answered Mar 11 '09 at 21:11

The date the question was /asked/ does have an age, though, which may be what you're referring to. For the problem at hand, it's the age of the answers that matters more than the age of the questions.

> I don't find age has a 1:1 correlation with it being outdated.

No, but there is a correlation.