Timeline for A proposed philosophy of question migration
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| Oct 8, 2016 at 6:09 | comment | added | Wrzlprmft | @JonEricson: If nothing else, you miss out on the reputation you might have earned on the original site. – This assumes that the alternative to migration is leaving the question as it is. But right now, it’s mostly closure, deletion, or downvoting (at least as far as I can tell). In all cases, the question attracts considerably fewer views. | |
| Oct 8, 2016 at 6:02 | comment | added | Wrzlprmft | @JonEricson: If I'm pretty sure the asker will have a better time of it on another site (and the question isn't junk), I would not wait to migrate. – Write this into the moderation guidelines for everybody to see and I am happy. It’s not that I cannot make a quick (and likely “correct”) decision; it’s that there will be complaints about either decision, unless I can point to an official policy. | |
| Oct 7, 2016 at 23:11 | comment | added | Jon Ericson StaffMod | I think I disagree that migration serves answerers. I certainly agree it affects them, but I tend to think migrations are more likely to harm answerers than otherwise. If nothing else, you miss out on the reputation you might have earned on the original site. (Obviously, some users will have accounts on both sites, but I imagine most people have "home sites" they'd prefer reputation on.) This is why the guidance I posted above suggested declining migration flags for answered questions. | |
| Oct 7, 2016 at 23:04 | comment | added | Jon Ericson StaffMod | For your last point, these are the difficult decisions moderators are called on to make. ;-) Besides the guidance I posted in the question, you might also read Respect the community—your own, and others’. If I'm pretty sure the asker will have a better time of it on another site (and the question isn't junk), I would not wait to migrate. If I'm not sure, I'd probably leave the question where it is and try to improve it with a combination of edits and comments. (It helps to know both sites, of course.) | |
| Oct 7, 2016 at 22:56 | comment | added | peterh | In my opinion, this whole thing should by easy and simple. The users of the sites could solve this whole problem between eachother by fair votings(*) and mod intervention would be needed only in exceptional cases. | *: for example, 2 3k+ vote could initiate a migration on the source site, and a normal close/reopen vote could decide on the target site, is it accepted or not. | |
| Oct 7, 2016 at 19:57 | history | answered | Wrzlprmft | CC BY-SA 3.0 |