Ask HN: Please write the year or 'old' in non recent submissions

8 points by imajes 16y ago ↗ HN

It's getting boring and inefficient to click on links that are posts from 2+ years ago.

It's cool that you're reminding us of something prescient, but it just looks like you only just discovered it. Lets keep the signal up!

Thanks.

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wycats 16y ago ↗

I'd prefer (2007) to (old)

NikkiA 16y ago ↗

I'd assume he means to use 'old' when it's not possible to determine the age of an article, but that it's known it's not recent. There are a lot of articles out there that don't have a publication date allowing you to easily say '2007' or such.