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Don't preserve votes when moving posts between SE sites [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Reset votes on migrated questions I apologize if this issue has been previously discussed, but I searched for it and couldn't find it anywhere on Meta. There was a computer ...
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Can questions migrated from trilogy sites to small sites have votes zeroed? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Reset votes on migrated questions When questions are migrated to Security SE, even if they have been open on a trilogy site for a couple of hours they may have 20 or more ...
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Dealing with "Find out who's going to buy the croissants" [closed]

On Stack Overflow at the moment, there is a popular question which is currently high in the Hot Questions feed: https://stackoverflow.com/q/17807531/42473 So far it has been closed twice (once by the ...
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Disable migration for questions older than 60 days

This has come up a few times now: migrating old questions causes problems. The most popular solution to this to date has been to reset votes on migrated posts. This is do-able, but frankly it feels ...
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Reset post score to 0 on migration

I suggest that when a post is migrated from one site to another, that the question vote score get reset to zero (or perhaps only a negative vote score is reset to zero). Often people will downvote a ...
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Does it make sense that migrated questions doubles your "Network Reputation"?

Poking around today's borked user league I noticed that Xenph Yan got a ton of rep on dba.stackechange.com for https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/12961/how-does-database-indexing-work But he also ...
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Is a question asking for an algorithm to sort socks into pairs on-topic? [closed]

How to pair socks from a pile efficiently asks for an algorithm for sorting socks into pairs. On what basis is this on-topic for SO? Should it not be migrated to Programmers, Computer Science or ...
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Do the new graduation policies have any effect on migrations to Beta sites?

A little while back, Stack Exchange announced new policies related to graduation and site closure. In short, graduation is considered once a site consistently received 10 questions per day, sites get ...
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Migrated posts lose their pre-migration reputation

A question was posted to SO today, which I answered and then received a number of upvotes on. The question was later migrated to Programmers.SE, where it continued to accumulate votes. The votes ...
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Why is this question better suited for DBA than SO?

I've asked this question two days ago. The question deals with a simple subquery and when to use a DISTINCT operation. In my opinion, this is a thing a programmer that works with relational ...
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Should we migrate old questions to new SE sites?

I have several latex questions under my belt in SO, long before TeX SE was born. My question is - should we migrate old questions like these to their respective, more fitting, SE site? Pros for this ...
Amir Rachum's user avatar
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Should I flag ancient questions that need closing / migrating? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Migrating old SO questions to Programmers Example: What is a better file copy alternative than the Windows default? This clearly belongs on SuperUser. I can vote to close/...
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Should we really be basing migratability on age?

Let's pretend there's a question asked on Stack Overflow (as if they ever are). The question is asking if there is a better way of doing something. Clearly the question belongs on Code Review. You go ...
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Are my votes carried over when a question is migrated to a site where I can't vote?

On Foo.SE, I have voted up a question and down one of its answers. After this, moderators decide it's best to migrate this question to Bar.SE. However, I don't have enough rep for voting privileges on ...
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Replace maximum age for migration with a better criterion

As it was revealed in discussion with Shog9 in Reset votes on migrated questions, the actual parameter governing migration eligibility is "the ratio "question value by the troublesomeness of ...
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