As an initial reaction, I feel that old inactive questions should be left alone, if they don’t pose a big problem. It seems a bit unfair to judge old questions by new standards, when the person asking the question might not even be active at the site now, so they cannot edit according to suggestion. The same problem also occur at all SE-sites (just look at some of the most upvoted Qs at SO).

Also, my feeling is that the site has enough problems to moderate (and attract) new incoming Qs and As, and effort is better spent there than on old materials. There is also the risk that a small number of single users take on the task of “re-valuing” old questions, which might lead them to push their own agenda on good vs bad Qs, in relation to the site community as a whole (both the current one and how it has looked over time).

As an initial reaction, I feel that old inactive questions should be left alone, if they don’t pose a big problem. It seems a bit unfair to judge old questions by new standards, when the person asking the question might not even be active at the site now, so they cannot edit according to suggestion. The same problem also occur at all SE-sites (just look at some of the most upvoted Qs at SO).

Also, my feeling is that the site has enough problems to moderate (and attract) new incoming Qs and As, and effort is better spent there than on old materials. There is also the risk that a small number of single users take on the task of “re-valuing” old questions, which might lead them to push their own agenda on good vs bad Qs, in relation to the site community as a whole (both the current one and how it has looked over time).

However, we should be careful not to close new better-framed questions on similar topics (as duplicates), just because an older related Q exists, which has these problems. Then they could actively hurt the site.