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Occasionally we observe posts erroneously moved from one site to another. Unlike a standard question closing there's no option to undo this action for high-rep users. When a question is closed, rather than moved, it can be reopened through voting, but unless I'm a high-rep user on the destination site of a moved question, I can't do anything to remedy the problem.

So it seems like we should have a "recall" option, where after 5 votes to recall a moved question, it's returned to the original site. This enables users who have the rights to move a question to a different site to counter-act actions they perceive as ill-advised even when they're not high-rep users on the destination site.

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Just flag these for moderator attention; far less work for everyone involved.

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I'd like to see reconsideration of this declined request. (I found this question while composing my own version of it.) As a user with close votes, I can review and reverse any other closing, but not migration. This seems asymmetrical at best, and perhaps even unbalanced: why should four* users have the ability to shove a question off a site without possibility of retraction, when five users can't even irrevocably close a question on-site?

I don't believe that "Just raise a flag" is good enough as an answer, since moderators frequently state that they prefer to see consensus before taking possibly disputable action. Raising a flag just pits a single user's opinion against five others'. The standard process of collecting five "reopen" votes seems like the ideal way to indicate the desired kind of consensus.

Related: Should it be possible to reopen migrated questions?
Allow diamond moderators to reverse question migrations?

Note especially Shog9's answer on the second, expressing the opinion that mods shouldn't unmigrate generally.


*number of votes required for migration

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    I wonder if you might provide an example or two of questions this would be helpful for? I'm not sure it's a good idea to have questions yo-yoing like that. And from the perspective of the target site, questions being yanked back could be an unhelpful action at a distance behavior. If it really belongs on the original site, why not ask it again? If you want to provide an answer, why not go to the new home? Mar 7, 2012 at 18:30
  • @Jon: I admit that I've only stumbled across a few over the past year. The one that prompted me to look into this was math.stackexchange.com/q/114914 I certainly don't want to see migration wars either. Duplicating questions across sites is, as far as I know, not considered a good practice. I'm less concerned about answering and more with peer review (of the migrators), but on the flip side of your question: why should I have to go create a new account if I thought that the question was on topic in the first place?
    – jscs
    Mar 7, 2012 at 19:27
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    That question, at least, seems to belong on both sites. I don't know of any reason not to duplicate a question on two sites if they would have different answers. That migration would have been better handled by asking a near duplicate question on Math and bringing the answers back to SO in the form of Python code. Maybe the original question could be re-asked with a link back to the mathematical answer? I'm not sure I could put Bill Dubuque's algorithm into code without some help. Mar 7, 2012 at 20:16
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    Ah. In fact, I think this sort of question would be considered an "edge case" that ought to be allowed to live on both sites: meta.stackexchange.com/q/4708/1438 Mar 7, 2012 at 20:19
  • @Jon: Thanks for that Meta link. I don't think I had seen that before.
    – jscs
    Mar 7, 2012 at 20:21

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