Timeline for Should we include other StackExchange sites in the close vote options?
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| Apr 11, 2014 at 19:34 | comment | added | Jim | @EmilioPisanty One more unrelated thing. It's apparent that you disagree with the proposal of instituting other specific migration options; at least, at the moment. I notice also my question has not yet been down-voted. Since you disagree, I would sincerely encourage you to down-vote my question. I'm led to believe that the voting system exists on meta as a measure of the support and opposition to an idea or topic. I would value your and others' honest expression of stance on this issue. So please don't hold back. | |
| Apr 11, 2014 at 19:27 | comment | added | Jim | ATM, I think it might be worthwhile (depending on how much work it would be) to have a trial run of an EE.SE migration option, something temporary (a science experiment?). Perhaps we can also ask the folks at EE.SE what they think, if they want a Physics.SE migration option, or whether they'd be willing to possibly put up with a few more off-topic questions from us should you turn out to be right. | |
| Apr 11, 2014 at 19:21 | comment | added | Jim | @EmilioPisanty sorry for such a long delay. You make a valid point for the status quo; however, I am concerned that the number of migrations we have now may be much less than the number of migrations there should and would be if the option was available. Just today, physics.stackexchange.com/q/107869/23473 was closed as off topic (completely a comp-sci question) but some of the votes were strangely for migrating to Math.SE. Had a CompSci.SE option been there, it would have been migrated (and it needed to be) fast. But that's not my point... | |
| Apr 7, 2014 at 13:15 | comment | added | Emilio Pisanty | You should also have a look in the Stack Exchange Data Explorer. It will not tell you about deleted questions, but you should be able to pick up at least some of the migrations. | |
| Apr 7, 2014 at 13:14 | comment | added | Emilio Pisanty | @Jim: Current migration stats page. | |
| Apr 7, 2014 at 13:09 | comment | added | Jim | I'd love to be able to see the current stats page for the migrations. Not having 10k, could you post a pic or link the info or something? Not that I don't believe you, it's just scientific curiosity | |
| Apr 7, 2014 at 12:53 | comment | added | Emilio Pisanty | "There's no reason for them to know if something is off-topic there", that's a big recipe for a bad migration channel. That's exactly the bad side of the maths>physics channel, where they are not very aware of our homework policy and currently 64% get closed/deleted on arrival. Seriously, there just aren't enough numbers to make this worthwhile. 11 over 90 days makes less than one a week, and well within what mods can handle. | |
| Apr 7, 2014 at 11:58 | comment | added | Jim | questions will be closed there, but I'm willing to bet that the percentage will drop. When your total is 11, even 1 closed question counts for 9%; however if we should have a 2% close rate, we could still have been unlucky enough to get 1 closed question in the first 4. But that doesn't mean we should rush to assume it indicates a 25% close rate. I agree we can and should simply deal with this by hand, but that isn't happening every time it should. EE.SE is our second-most migrated to site. It works for Math.SE, we should at least give this a chance. It might surprise us and work great. | |
| Apr 7, 2014 at 11:51 | comment | added | Jim | I disagree with at least the two points you made in your first paragraph. At the moment, we have a migration link with Math.SE. Our 3k+ users probably have as much idea whether or not something is off-topic at Math.SE as they do for EE.SE. There's no reason for them to know if something is off-topic there, we can only tell that a question is more suited for that site. As for the second point, 2/11 is not enough statistics to make a statement. If there was an easier migration path, I think more questions that deserved to be migrated would be sent over. We can't be sure how many.... | |
| Apr 7, 2014 at 10:56 | comment | added | Danu | While a valid answer in spirit, I don't feel a 2/11 is enough of a sample to really do any type of statics on. Isn't there a simple way for mods from different SE's to discuss about this like this with each other? | |
| Apr 7, 2014 at 0:25 | comment | added | Brandon Enright | And many of the questions we get migrated to us (especially from Skeptics) are off-topic here. | |
| Apr 6, 2014 at 22:52 | history | answered | Emilio Pisanty | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
