I’ve come across an interesting question on the threadiverse that was asked two years ago and still hasn’t been answered.
What do you all think is an acceptable time frame for responding to unanswered posts?
Is there a general rule for when it’s too late to give an answer?
If it’s a technical issue, go ahead and answer it if you think your answer will help someone in the future. Someone may be having that exact problem and have found the post via search. This has helped me more times than I can count when working on projects.
Non technical topics, depends on the platform and subject. I’d say use your own judgment.
It was not a technical issue.
A teacher asked how she can help her adhd students.
My opinion, that would fall under technical. Your reply might not be useful to that teacher or the student that she was trying to help, but might be useful to the next teacher or student that runs across the post.
In all my years I have never found anything as poorly documented as how people’s minds work.