Timeline for Inconsistent Mod response to migrating Excel questions between Stack OverFlow & Super User [duplicate]
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| Sep 22, 2015 at 14:53 | history | edited | Excellll | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 22, 2015 at 14:08 | history | edited | brettdj | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 11, 2012 at 22:27 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Mar 11, 2012 at 22:27 | history | closed |
Daniel BeckMod slhck Tamara Wijsman Simon Sheehan brettdj |
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| Mar 11, 2012 at 22:26 | comment | added | brettdj | Ok I get the drift. Aside from Daniel's issue with defining the scope of programming the general response is that these questions should have stayed at SU. I'm fine with that .... although I will point out the inconsistency of migrating the first five of my first six flags to SO remains, as does the reverse migration (SO to SU). I perhaps should have worded this differently, as from my perspective this had ended up down the rabbit warren of two examples rather than the higher level issue I wanted to raise re the migrating of Excel questions being a Moderator lucky dip. Thx for your input. | |
| Mar 11, 2012 at 22:12 | comment | added | brettdj | @slhck that question was actually on SO - CasperOne migrated it to SU. | |
| Mar 11, 2012 at 14:18 | comment | added | Tamara Wijsman | With borderline cases, mistakes and/or inconsistency happen . | |
| Mar 11, 2012 at 14:15 | comment | added | Daniel Beck Mod | You fail to show how the question is off topic on SU, and in those situations, the users ultimately decide what site they want to post on. While VBA might be a very advanced feature of Excel, it's accessible to advanced users and part of using the program for them, just like shell scripting is a natural part of using a shell. | |
| Mar 11, 2012 at 14:15 | comment | added | slhck | I quote what you quoted, with an emphasis: "it is on topic for superuser.com, however". Is there any reason to migrate it, then? | |
| Mar 11, 2012 at 11:44 | comment | added | Raystafarian | I see the difference as excel formulas, UDF, and VBA belong in SU, whereas using excel with VB Script, C++ and other languages belongs in SO. We have quite a few excel experts here at SU if you go through the excel question history, and I think they belong quite fine. I certainly wouldn't be of much use on SO, but I can help with most SU Excel questions.. | |
| Mar 11, 2012 at 9:53 | history | edited | brettdj | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added regexp example 0 next thing I'll hear is that regular expressions aren't programming :)
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| Mar 11, 2012 at 9:28 | comment | added | Daniel Beck Mod | VBA is more scripting than actual programming, just like shell scripting, and stringing together a few lines of your favorite scripting language. These questions are all fine on SU, you can be a power user doing some scripting (and read code to understand how exactly a utility works), without making you a programmer. | |
| Mar 11, 2012 at 7:23 | answer | added | nhinkleMod | timeline score: 15 | |
| Mar 11, 2012 at 7:20 | comment | added | Sathyajith Bhat Mod | as a general rule, very old questions which are on-topic will not be migrated, unless the OP has requested. Second linked question is not even a programming question. | |
| Mar 11, 2012 at 6:16 | history | asked | brettdj | CC BY-SA 3.0 |