Questions tagged [site-crossover]
For instances where questions may be on-topic for multiple sites, inquiries as to which site might be appropriate and questions about migration between sites with a similar scope.
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Should I paraphrase the cross-site duplicate when posting it as an answer?
This Stack Overflow question had an answer on Software Engineering. After reading this answer here, I went ahead and posted an answer, since I feel like that question is on topic on both sites.
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Etiquette, rules, or advice on which site to pose a question? (Or, why are there so many StackExchange sites?)
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I have a question I want to ask regarding using Apple's AppleScript/Objective-C bridge (Objective C wrapped in AppleScript, basically) to implement an HTML/WebKit-based pager (a drop-in for ...
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Can I use my rep from one site to give a bounty on another [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Allow bounty to be set with reputation from another site?
I had a pressing database question, so I posted it on stackoverflow.
However no useful answer came and I offered a ...
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How to ask the same question on different sites? [duplicate]
Suppose I have question, which appropriate to ask on two (or more) different SE sites. Since the audience is different on different sites, I would like to attract all people, who can answer.
How ...
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What should I do with question that has been answered on another site? [duplicate]
I have reviewed the following question and answer
What's the policy on marking questions as duplicates?
As part of the community, what should I do when I find questions that have been answered on ...
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Why is there more than one Stack Exchange site for one topic? [duplicate]
There is one Stack Exchange site, Unix & Linux, where every question on any Unix-like operating system, including Linux, is welcome. So why a separate site, Ask Ubuntu?
Ubuntu is based on Linux ...
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When a question is off topic, it takes too much effort to get directed to the correct site
Hello,
I've asked questions that I thought were on topic, and really should have just been, but the questions get booted as off-topic on over 4 different stack exchange sites before one accepts them....
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Do we really need all these computer science / programming places?
I have been thinking on this a lot. And I also saw this post which gives a good explanation of every site: Which computer science / programming Stack Exchange do I post in?
However, I see a couple of ...
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Deny cross-posting, but enable site-sharing?
I know cross-posting (writing the same question on more than one SE site) is discouraged and should not be done. I also see the reason for this and agree, but sometimes it is indeed not clear where a ...
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Migrating Comments to Chat Off Topic(words of warning, short)
Apologies for the rough edit, but it's too much work at this point to put it back the way it was. and the original post really was too long anyway.
The reason for this post basically boils down to the ...
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