Timeline for Could we finally get rid of [software-rec]?
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| Jan 13, 2015 at 20:01 | comment | added | Sun | Which brings up another question is why migrated questions have a redirect link from the previous site. Even if it is junk Q&A, if it belongs on another site... I think the categorization is important so that future searches coming from Google land on the correct site. | |
| Jan 13, 2015 at 13:03 | comment | added | killermist | @sunk818 Imagine you're searching for something on google, and you find a link to something here, but you follow the link and find that the question and answers are junk. You are then annoyed because the link was junk. Scenario 2, the community and moderation obliterates the crap, including off-topic. The stumbling-block link on google fades to nonexistence. The signal-to-noise ratio of the internet improves. The whole planet wins. | |
| Sep 23, 2014 at 15:24 | comment | added | gronostaj | @sunk818 As I said, it doesn't matter if it's closed here as off-topic or there as low quality. It's useless for both communities. If we can deal with it right here on SU then there's no point in outsourcing that work to another site. | |
| Sep 23, 2014 at 14:27 | comment | added | Sun | @gronostaj I have to question then, whether closing off-topic is best for the StackExchange community, or is selfishly motivated by overworked moderators. What is the best action for the health and organization of the communities? | |
| Sep 23, 2014 at 9:59 | comment | added | gronostaj | @sunk818 It doesn't matter if question is closed for being off-topic here or low quality there, it's useless anyway. Furthermore, migrated question needs another 5 close votes or moderator's action on target site to be closed, so migration is doubling the work that needs to be done on a crappy question to close it. | |
| Sep 22, 2014 at 16:09 | comment | added | Sun | Can you explain the benefit of keeping an off-topic post in the community it was posted in? Does that prevent repeat off-topic posts? | |
| Sep 22, 2014 at 15:28 | comment | added | gronostaj | @sunk818 The cardinal rule of migration is Don't Migrate Crap. If the question will be closed after migration, it should not be migrated. | |
| Sep 21, 2014 at 23:08 | comment | added | Sun | Even of the specifics are not there, they belong on softwarerecs.stackexchange.com . If the post merits being closed for insufficient info then do it after migration. I often see posts not being migrated but closed. If off topic is relevant on another community, the post should be migrated. Every moderator should know what the on topic rules are for every other community on se. Needs to be part of their training. Otherwise, closed for off topic seems inappropriate close reason. | |
| Sep 19, 2014 at 16:14 | comment | added | Braiam | BAD, very bad! Most of the software recommendations questions asked anywhere on SE would get closed on Software Recommendations. They have very, very specifics sets of requirements that should be fulfilled before you ever ask for a recommendation. | |
| Sep 17, 2014 at 18:30 | history | answered | Chenmunka | CC BY-SA 3.0 |