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    While I can imagine the same question to be on-topic on the math site and the physics site, I don't think the same question could then be on-topic also e.g. on the bicycles site, the cooking site and the photography site. So I consider the slippery-slope argument invalid.
    – celtschk
    Commented Sep 23, 2012 at 14:23
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    It's a slippery slope if not managed by the community well, but the same goes for the Q&A's themselves. It's no reason to rule it out. If it's implemented and managed well, cross-posting could make a great feature for the network and increase cross-site collaboration. See my comment above: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/64068/…
    – Charles Roper
    Commented Oct 5, 2012 at 8:06
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    Slippery slope is a manipulation method. It is slippery slope to allow users to specify 5 labels (tags) in their posts. Why not 25? Think about it. Manipulation is what you use here. There is nothing slippery for a thing to belong to 25 categories at once. What you do here is trying to justify your magic numbers not as arbitrary rule but as something deeply grounded and suitable for all cases. No, it is not a best fit for all cases. The more categories you create, the less probable that particular case will belong to only one of them.
    – Val
    Commented Jun 9, 2013 at 12:02
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    @val if we allowed 25 tags, there would be 2 decent tags on a question and 23 noise tags. The net result would be a polluted and useless tag system. Without constraints, people make bad choices. See: George Lucas and Star Wars Episodes 5+.
    – Jeff Atwood
    Commented Jun 10, 2013 at 17:32
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    @JeffAtwood Nevertheless, you slippery slope when allow multiple labels per post. I can agree that you can order categories in terms of their appropriateness and get a decaying curve. If decay is fast, a couple of first categories cover most of the area under the curve. But, if distrubution is almost uniform, as it happens when you do not know where to relate the subject, you'll need to pick much more best candidates to cover the field with good probability. The point is that when you have many categories to choose from, making a good coverage will need including more categories.
    – Val
    Commented Jun 10, 2013 at 18:51
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    "why not maximize your odds by posting it on twenty sites!" Because no question would be on-topic at 20 SE sites. No need to delete a question if you didn't receive an answer on one site though, since it will move you closer towards a question ban and there is still a chance someone may answer in the future.
    – pacoverflow
    Commented Dec 9, 2016 at 17:24
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    I'm not sure you're advice is the best advice. I guess doing it is some situations is better than nothing. According to meta.stackexchange.com/questions/86997/…, deleting questions that are less than 30 days old can actually count against you. I think it's better to write a comment suggesting that it can be moved to another website.
    – Timothy
    Commented Jun 8, 2019 at 18:20