A disturbing large percentage of citations of some of my best work say "Written in 2012 but still relevant", which a) is a direct artifact of the blogging form factor, b) is an unforced error, and c) I should just fix forever when I achieve activation energy.
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Also notice: These folks often state that they are *surprised* that something as old as ten years old (with exclamation points!) could still be relevant.
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I only had to go back 2 weeks to dig up these examples. How many more thousands of people said it! How many more tens of thousands merely thought it, and either read the advice but didn't share, read the advice but didn't apply to their lives, or stopped reading at date!
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They're not actually apologizing. They're preempting snotty responses about the age of the item they're talking about.
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I may be wrong here, but I have a different story I tell myself for (some of) the times people do this which is more like: "sorry you may have seen this before". It's something to do with the focus on *now* of platforms like this that most of it is sharing new things.
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This doesn't invalidate your advice / thinking of course.
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Alternate take: the purpose is just to signify that you are aware the post is old and has made the rounds before, so it may be old news to some of your audience. So as to avoid people saying "this is old, did you really see this just now?" which would cost precious nerd points.
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