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In a similar vein to this question about editing other users answers to provide compatibility with newer OS X versionsthis question about editing other users answers to provide compatibility with newer OS X versions, is there any way to mark answers as obsolete besides adding a comment that it doesn't work as of OS X 10.whatever?

Specifically, El Capitan and SIP stop many old solutions to problems from working, and it is frustrating for users to read through answers and then have a long comment chain outlining all the changes to the answer that are necessary to adapt the answer to the latest Mac OS. This makes the actual answer unclear unless you read through the comment chain and have some background knowledge on what the breaking changes were or why something may not work on a new OS X.

In a similar vein to this question about editing other users answers to provide compatibility with newer OS X versions, is there any way to mark answers as obsolete besides adding a comment that it doesn't work as of OS X 10.whatever?

Specifically, El Capitan and SIP stop many old solutions to problems from working, and it is frustrating for users to read through answers and then have a long comment chain outlining all the changes to the answer that are necessary to adapt the answer to the latest Mac OS. This makes the actual answer unclear unless you read through the comment chain and have some background knowledge on what the breaking changes were or why something may not work on a new OS X.

In a similar vein to this question about editing other users answers to provide compatibility with newer OS X versions, is there any way to mark answers as obsolete besides adding a comment that it doesn't work as of OS X 10.whatever?

Specifically, El Capitan and SIP stop many old solutions to problems from working, and it is frustrating for users to read through answers and then have a long comment chain outlining all the changes to the answer that are necessary to adapt the answer to the latest Mac OS. This makes the actual answer unclear unless you read through the comment chain and have some background knowledge on what the breaking changes were or why something may not work on a new OS X.

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Is there a way to mark answers as obsolete?

In a similar vein to this question about editing other users answers to provide compatibility with newer OS X versions, is there any way to mark answers as obsolete besides adding a comment that it doesn't work as of OS X 10.whatever?

Specifically, El Capitan and SIP stop many old solutions to problems from working, and it is frustrating for users to read through answers and then have a long comment chain outlining all the changes to the answer that are necessary to adapt the answer to the latest Mac OS. This makes the actual answer unclear unless you read through the comment chain and have some background knowledge on what the breaking changes were or why something may not work on a new OS X.