Timeline for Reset votes on migrated questions
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| Feb 6, 2016 at 1:15 | comment | added | Nathan Tuggy | In general, questions are not migrated unless they are actively off-topic on their current site; history has shown that that is not a result of simply creating a subsite. (Thus, wordpress.se, drupal.se, and so forth do not actually drain off existing questions from SO via migration.) So the premise of this answer is simply wrong; this is not a situation that happens with any regularity. | |
| Jul 24, 2012 at 0:17 | history | edited | blahdiblah | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Remove board/forum references that are making people miss the point
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| Feb 27, 2012 at 1:39 | comment | added | JohnMcG | The point isn't to credit effort -- the point is that the question and answer was deemed useful at one time on a general board, but then was moved to a more specific board, and the question was no longer on a hot topic, and so the credit for that useful question and answer is now gone. | |
| Feb 25, 2012 at 20:55 | comment | added | jmort253 | @JohnMcG - While I understand where you're coming from, votes represent the quality of the question and/or answers. Here, there is no A for effort, and reputation isn't given just because you gave it the good 'ole college try. | |
| Feb 25, 2012 at 20:53 | comment | added | jmort253 | @sixlettervariables - That's not a nitpick at all. It's true :) And the difference between a Q&A site an a forum is huge. It would be like me calling a car a book or a tree an mp3 player. | |
| Feb 24, 2012 at 18:02 | comment | added | user7116 | A small nitpick: SE is not a "board" or "forum", it is a question and answer site. | |
| Feb 24, 2012 at 17:56 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | See my comments on Lance's answer. Carrying over the votes during migration undermines the reputation system as an incentive to drive good participation, because the votes on an off-topic question are not reliable indicators of quality. Having votes coming from some other community causes people to lose whatever small faith they may have that upvotes indicate peer validation and makes them less likely to participate. | |
| Feb 24, 2012 at 17:50 | history | answered | JohnMcG | CC BY-SA 3.0 |