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  1. On StackOverflow, if you type migrated:yes answers:1 in the search box, it returns zero results. (Based on the mini-help, I would understand answers:1 to select anything with 1 or more answers.)

    This may be a simple bug, or simple question of understanding the use of those criteria during searching... but FYI, it came out of a larger question:

  2. Does migration of a question pose any technical hurdles to the Original Poster, if that OP does not yet have an account, on the migration-target-site?

halfer started answering that question, under topic Be extra helpful to new users, in comments here, where he pointed out that

If the user logs onto SE and clicks on these questions, they will be asked if they want a [migration target site] account created automatically.

I'm just wondering if their capabilities are even more limited, as a new user who doesn't even have points for asking a question, on the migration site.


EDIT: I just accepted ShaWizDowArd's answer re' (1)--the title question--and checked the search help page, which does say migrated "returns only questions that have been migrated to a different site", where I had been searching for "migrated from".

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  • I find your parenthese confusing...
    – User1000547
    Commented Nov 20, 2013 at 20:12
  • There is no minimal reputation requirement to ask a question, so as a new user who doesn't even have points for asking a question, on the migration site cannot apply.
    – Martijn Pieters
    Commented Nov 20, 2013 at 20:12
  • @MartijnPieters Question (2) is about privaledges given after asking a question, like 'participate in meta' and 'comment everywhere'. Do they affect the "new OP"'s ability to participate.
    – Doug_Ivison
    Commented Nov 20, 2013 at 20:22
  • @mikeTheLiar Thanks... looks great.
    – Doug_Ivison
    Commented Nov 20, 2013 at 20:23

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The reason you get 0 results is that all answers get auto deleted once a question is migrated, while the question stays undeleted (but locked) for 30 days.

For example this question got 9 answers before migration but all now deleted:

Hence, as far as the search knows, all those questions have indeed 0 answers.

Worth also to mention that migrated:yes means questions that have been migrated from the site where you search to other site, that was likely the source of confusion as well.

As for your other question:

Does migration of a question pose any technical hurdles to the Original Poster, if that OP does not yet have an account, on the migration-target-site?

The answer is no. The OP will simply have no account on the target site until he actively visits it and log in as usual, choosing the same OpenID provider. Then his new account on the target site will be associated with the account on the source site and the question will belong to him. All privileges are totally due to reputation he still need to earn, votes in the source site are being reset upon migration.

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  • Agreed, but believe it or not, there are questions that are migrated TO stackoverflow... and it looks like none of them got answers. Also, the same results happen on dba.stackexchange.com, where some of the migrations went: zero results on migrated:yes answers:1
    – Doug_Ivison
    Commented Nov 20, 2013 at 20:19
  • @Doug migrated:yes means "questions that have been migrated from Stack Overflow to other site". I don't think there is search operator for the other direction. Data Explorer might contain that information, also not sure about that.
    – Shadow Wizard
    Commented Nov 20, 2013 at 20:21
  • I think THAT's the answer to (1). Edit/post it, and I'll accept it -- thanks!
    – Doug_Ivison
    Commented Nov 20, 2013 at 20:25
  • OK, added to my post. :)
    – Shadow Wizard
    Commented Nov 20, 2013 at 21:23
  • Accepted--thanks again--and summarized in a question edit. Any thoughts on (2)? --- do missing abilities, like 'participate in meta' and 'comment everywhere' pose any hindrance to an OP, who is a raw new user on the target site?
    – Doug_Ivison
    Commented Nov 20, 2013 at 21:43
  • @Doug will think of this and try to expand my answer soon.
    – Shadow Wizard
    Commented Nov 20, 2013 at 21:44
  • Thanks, shady&wizardly, for speaking to question (2). I've been thinking about it too, since our last comments, and I have one tentative & minor concern... that, if true, may be worth addressing: I question whether the OP can leave comments on answers, equipped with a new account. Normally, just asking a question, by itself, gives you enough points to attain that right (comment everywhere). But on the migration-target site, is s/he not a new account without points for the question? So, without comment everywhere, can he comment on answers to his own migrated question?
    – Doug_Ivison
    Commented Nov 21, 2013 at 2:23
  • @Doug you got it wrong. User can always post comments on his own posts (both questions and answers) and on answers posted on his own question, that's even with 1 reputation. The "comment everywhere" is gained only when user get 50 reputation (it's 1 only here on this Meta).
    – Shadow Wizard
    Commented Nov 21, 2013 at 8:25
  • @Doug now that the above is clear, when user whose question got migrated visit the target site and log in using the same credentials, his account will be automatically associated thus the question will be his by all means, as if he asked it on the target site, hence he can comment on it and on its answers just fine. :)
    – Shadow Wizard
    Commented Nov 21, 2013 at 8:27

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