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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Build and strengthen the Stack Exchange community with "crossover questions" between sites
I've been a Stack Exchange contributor for a couple of years now, currently most active on travel.SE. One thing that keeps coming up is questions that would appeal to audiences on two different Stack ...
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What to do with cross-site duplicates?
What's the right course of action for cross-site duplicates?
There are two flavors:
A question is posted which belongs on another site and ends up already having been asked there. I can't find an ...
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Display other SE site links in the linked questions sidebar
Maybe using a different font or a small site-icon.
Hijack edit: ~~~~ jco - Based on this discussion: Hodofhod Asks About Intra-network Related Questions
Example. In the below answer from Justin is a ...
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The ability to link cross-site duplicates
Jeff seems in favor of cross-site duplicates.
Some questions might be asked on three different sites, each site needing three different answers. For example, a question about a text editor.
So ...
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Asking on Multiple Sites: "Soft-Migration"
See also: Collaborate With Chemistry.se?
Many of the newer sites have a certain degree of overlap.
With the creation of Chem.SE, I noticed quite a few questions on Physics.SE which could have ...
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Log out of all Stack Exchange sites with linked account simultaneously
On the logout page for each Stack Exchange site, there is currently a button for Log Out, which logs the current session out of the current site, and a button for Log Out Everywhere, which logs all ...
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Automatic wrong site suggestion when posting?
What do people think of the idea that as soon as a question or question title contains certain key words (perhaps a volume of key words), in much the same way it suggests that your post might be ...
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Rep transfer from Meta
First of all, I feel vindicated after "Community Wiki" and SO meta-discussion and I'm mostly asking this to gloat.
But wouldn't it make sense for rep points from Meta to transfer back (maybe at a ...
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Emacs questions: Super User or Stack Overflow?
Answers to questions about Emacs regularly involve Lisp code, and Emacs is often used to write programming languages. That said, Emacs is an editor, and it seems questions about it belong on Super ...
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Are meta.stackexchange and meta.stackoverflow "one and the same"? [duplicate]
This seems counterintuitive to the vertical nature of Stack Exchange itself, but I cannot manage to browse to meta.stackexchange.com: I get redirected to meta.stackoverflow.com, instead.
This is also ...
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Can we please have a ruling about Emacs questions on Stack Overflow?
It would be great if we could decide which Stack Exchange site Emacs questions may go to. A recent Emacs site proposal was closed on the grounds that it was redundant. However since Emacs is both ...
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Is it ok to delete question on one Stack Exchange site (for lack of response) and post it on another Stack Exchange site?
When asking questions related to SharePoint, I generally post them on SharePoint Stack Exchange. But sometimes I don't receive any responses to my question, so I delete the question from SharePoint ...
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Add a limited cross site question feed to the main page
Often people have lamented the "this is appropriate on multiple sites, but people yell if I post copies of it on both" or "I'd post it on the other site, but it doesn't get enough ...
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Redirect links to moved questions
When someone links to a question, at some time in the future the question that has been linked to may get moved to a more appropriate site. I have come across this several times while finding answers ...
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Allow cross-site duplicate closing
tldr: If a question turns out to be an unintentional duplicate of another site's question (and OP does not oppose due to intended different audience) allow cross-site dupe closing.
I asked this ...
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Is there any value in creating an app that will link SO and SF rep with LinkedIn profiles?
I was wandering around LinkedIn yesterday when I came across its "answers" area. It apparently has a service much like SO/SF, wherein people can ask questions and other "Subject Matter Experts" can ...
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Cross-Site Asking [duplicate]
NOT cross-posting, of course.
An idea came up in comments on my previous question about cross-site searching about cross-site asking. That is, when a user is on one Stack Exchange site (Stack ...
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How can I "ping" other communities / Stack Exchange sites without cross-posting the question?
I found that an interesting and important question that someone asked on one SE site is likely to benefit from answers coming from users who frequent other SE sites. What are the best ways to attract ...
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Idea to promote more traffic to non-technical related Stack Exchange sites
The moderator/founder of one of the Stack Exchange sites I frequent, Basically Money, frequently tweets links to questions on his feed. This got me thinking that perhaps a way to solve the dilemma of ...
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Close as exact duplicate + belongs on [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
The ability to link cross site duplicates
Take a look to https://serverfault.com/questions/156639 and https://superuser.com/questions/142102
The first one is both a duplicate ...
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Should strictly on-topic cross-posts be put on hold as "off-topic"?
A good question, on topic for two sites
Without having read the FAQ on cross-posting, I cross-posted a question (here and here) that was strictly on topic for both sites. In fact, I actually cross-...
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Where can I ask general questions about a multi-platform app?
For example, Slack is a multi-platform application (like iOS, Android, Web and desktop).
Should questions that aren't specific to a certain platform (like "Can your Slack account invite external ...
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Span Stack Exchange sites for tags, searches, and related questions
I think there's an unintended motivation for users to post questions to higher-traffic Stack Exchange sites rather than their more specific or appropriate lower-traffic ones. I think I have a ...
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Can I move reputation from Stack Overflow to Server Fault? Why not? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicates:
Allow bounty to be set with reputation from another site?
Should SO rep be considered in SU and SF?
Rep transfer from meta
I'm a relatively new user on all 3 sites. But ...
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Selected "Guest questions" from other SE sites
Some questions could be asked on multiple SE sites, for example this gamedev question is likely to interest some users of math.SE. Since cross-posting is rather discouraged (for a good reason) it ...
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Is it necessary to be able to cross-post between sites? [duplicate]
Something I was doing the other day - working with .htaccess files - made me wonder where it would belong if I needed help - Stack Overflow or Server Fault. There might be some topics that fall in the ...
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Allow cross-posting between serverfault.com and superuser.com?
I think that over time a large number of questions will be duplicated over superuser.com and serverfault.com.
To cite an example, I'm investigating protocols to mount remote filesystems on linux ...
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Tag links between SO, SF and SU
Consider python tag. It's programming, so belongs to Stack Overflow. System administrators hack scripts in it (and manage applications written in it), so it belongs to Server Fault. Power users use it ...
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Is there a way to set up a cross-site feed of Stack Exchange questions?
I'm a member of several Stack Exchange sites, and it would be lovely if I could have a feed of top questions of the day from sites I'm a member of.
The little StackExchange v button at the top of ...
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Show on 'other site' switch [duplicate]
Feature request / idea:
Sometimes a question seems to fall in between two sites. An example might be PHP email questions, could be the code or could be the php.ini which often ends up being a system ...
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Is it OK to cross-post an old, unanswered question?
I've seen a question on a site I don't have an account on. The question was very interesting and it's also on-topic on this other site, where I am an active user on.
The question is on-topic on both ...
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Data science, Cross Validated and Artificial Intelligence
A similar question than this one has been asked there: Difference between the Cross Validated and Data Science SE sites?
People, including myself, seems to be confused about the distinction of all ...
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Check if a user has an identical open question on another site before allowing them to post [duplicate]
There are quite a few sites in the network where content can sometimes overlap. That is, there are questions that could be appropriate on multiple sites in the network. Combine this with the fact that ...
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What site should host questions about Emacs keybinding?
Currently on Stack Overflow there is a question about Carbon Emacs keybindings.
It has received a (very reasonable in my estimation) vote to move to Super User, but there are already several similar ...
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Cross Post if you get no answer? [duplicate]
I searched for the phrase "Cross Post" here in meta stack overflow. Still unclear on how it applies to my current circumstances.
I have a problem. I went to some length to document the entire ...
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Why won't you close a question I asked and later flagged for moderator attention as a duplicate
I asked this question on superuser, and Lee referenced similar question on serverfault in his answer.
I then marked the question for moderator attention and noted it should be closed as a duplicate. ...
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Fix SE for interdisciplinary questions: inter-site posting instead of close-repost
Tl;dr: Replace the migration feature with by-design simultaneous posting
questions on multiple sites, with links.
The Problem(s)
Computer science is a broad field that touches many others. We use ...
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How to share a question on different related SE sites? [duplicate]
My question is that I asked a question on stackoverflow.com and
I want to share my question to all other technical stackoverflow linked sites like http://dba.stackexchange.com, http://unix....
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View questions with the same tag across multiple SE sites
I have become aware of multiple stack exchange sites where the Mathematica tag may be found. I have only been following it on StackOverflow however, where the majority of activity is.
Some sites do ...
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Reputation points for joining more than one Stack Exchange site
I saw that you could get a reputation bonus +100 for merging accounts across multiple Stack Exchange sites.
I don't have anywhere near that 200+ reputation, so if that would still apply when I get ...
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Smart Tags: A solution for cross posting and community sorting?
On what community questions board should I put I question?
This does seem like a huge human organization question. For example, there is the systems administration tool, Puppet, which uses a ...
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Resolve cross-site links to question title [duplicate]
When I post a link to another post on the same site, it resolves the link to the question title. When I post a link to Stack Overflow from Database Administrators, cross site, it doesn't.
I know I ...
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Cross-site question association
We have already working association mechanism between Stack Oveflow in Russian and Stack Overlow in English.
Something like this
Text translation: This question has answers on StackOverflow in ...
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Why not let Communities refer questions to other communities?
The issue:
As the number exchanges/communities have grown, a lot of overlapping question are spreading across the lines between the communities.
Examples:
In the robotics exchange there is a ...
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Cross-site bounties [duplicate]
Wouldn't it be nice to have cross-site bounties?
After all, if I am a developer I am likely to have points on SO, and not many on SF, and vice-versa.
I think probably everyone would benefit from ...
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What to do about the same question on multiple sites? [duplicate]
There have been many questions that ask if a user is allowed to cross-post a question on multiple sites, and the general conclusion is that they are not allowed to do so. However, sometimes there are ...
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What about questions already answered elsewhere? [duplicate]
What should we do about questions that are already answered on another SE site? I'm thinking of this one example answer. It's normally done that way when the link is external to SE, or it's normally ...
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Link to other SE sites on tag-specific page?
As users become more familiar with tag wikis, I suspect that they click on a tag like security to learn more & they find a list of tagged questions.
Similar in nature to this request, could the ...
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Overlapping Area 51 proposals (not overlapping Stack Overflow)
Similar to the Area 51 proposal that overlap Stack Overflow question, I've noticed a number of cases where a broad site exists, and more specialised sites are proposed which address a subset of the ...
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Etiquette, rules, or advice on which site to pose a question? (Or, why are there so many StackExchange sites?)
Basically:
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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