Question: It is a given that, with time, questions and answers will become out dated. Good answers will not always apply to future patches, and questions may concern issues that simply do not exist in newer patches.

I have been linked to a few meta posts regarding the appropriate action. [The consensus here](https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/946/outdated-answers-due-to-patches) is that out of date answers should be edited to be up to date.

The same mod has answered [a similar question](https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1339/how-should-we-deal-with-out-of-date-questions-answers), showing a markdown method to keep the original authors intent, but since has steered towards "leave a comment, alert the author" and "post your own, up to date answer".

[There is another similar question](https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1527/update-old-answers-according-to-patch-notes-for-unreleased-patch), however it does not appear to have had as much traffic, and the accepted answer appears to be a reference to the first question.

This is where my question comes in. **Is it appropriate to add completely new content to a question, where there is a new solution due to newer changes to the game**?

What defines the difference between updating an answer to be current, and going against the authors intent?

Answer: 
**It depends.** Yes, posting your own answer gives you more reputation (any reputation for users above 2k). But that's not really why we're here, no? We're here to provide expertise on a subject, not just to earn imaginary internet points.

With this in mind, it absolutely depends on what the edit entails. Remember the actual text of the "radical change" suggested edit rejection criteria: "Clearly conflicts with author intent". To me, this implies that an edit should be rejected under this criterion if it unambiguously conflicts with the intended meaning of the post: If your edit changes an answer's meaning entirely, for example, changing an outdated no to an updated yes, it should be a new answer. If your edit is describing a wholly new process by which a user can accomplish what they are asking about, then it should be a new answer.

But if you are merely updating basic information in an answer, or adding some minor information to an answer that is now incomplete after an update, that is absolutely acceptable. It doesn't do us any good to have 3 separate answers saying roughly the same thing because some of the details may have changed slightly.

Edits are not and should not be just for the express purpose of fixing grammatical and spelling errors, especially here on Arqade, where details are often subject to change on a monthly basis. We should be fixing minor details, where it doesn't *clearly* conflict with the author's intent, and posting new answers in cases where the original answer no longer applies.
I think it's best to edit the information into the answer.

One option is to add an answer with the new information. This is only good if the Question asker, changes the accepted answer. This is unlikely to happen though. So the problem is that the new (up to date) answer will be below the outdated (possibly incorrect) answer. 

This means that visitors to the site coming from a search engine with the same question will first see the old accepted answer and then be given incorrect/outdated information. It's unlikely that they will go through all the answers before leaving, having been disappointed by the quality of our answers, this, I think, is bad for the site's reputation.

This is evident by [this answer](https://gaming.stackexchange.com/a/230532/106901) where a user added another answer likely because they did not find the information already in the top answer.

If new information becomes available then it should be added to an already accepted good answer. This allows for the best answer delivered to future visitors in the shortest amount of time.

The point is to give the best possible answer to questions, if we need to edit in more information then what's wrong with that?

As to the argument that it's "going against the OP's intention", I don't think that it is because they did not know about the new information at the time they posted. I would not mind people changing my answer so that it continues to be up to date and relevant. It means that the answer will provide even better information to anyone looking to answer a question.

This I think will also discourage downvoting of a good answer that has become outdated in an attempt to change visibility.