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Improved suggested edit --- Added sentence taken from https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/64068#comment181805_75012.
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Allowing cross-posting is a slippery slope.

If you might have slightly better odds of getting an answer by posting it on two sites, well, by gum, why not maximize your odds by posting it on twenty sites!

There are some questions which fall into grey areas between sites, and I think it's OK to ask and delete, then re-ask if you feel you have asked on the wrong site.

If you cross-post a question, make sure the question is tailored to each audience on the different sites and is materially different in each case.

It is also considered good practice to post a link to the other question on the other site, so everyone can see what portion has already been answered and let you know if you've violated the sites no cross-posting policy; which is present on most of the site's per child metas.

But as a general rule, do not cross-post questions, please. Pick a site and go with it.

Just to be 100% clear, copy-pasting a question across sites with no changes is considered abusive behavior.

Allowing cross-posting is a slippery slope.

If you might have slightly better odds of getting an answer by posting it on two sites, well, by gum, why not maximize your odds by posting it on twenty sites!

There are some questions which fall into grey areas between sites, and I think it's OK to ask and delete, then re-ask if you feel you have asked on the wrong site.

If you cross-post a question, make sure the question is tailored to each audience on the different sites and is materially different in each case.

But as a general rule, do not cross-post questions, please. Pick a site and go with it.

Just to be 100% clear, copy-pasting a question across sites with no changes is considered abusive behavior.

Allowing cross-posting is a slippery slope.

If you might have slightly better odds of getting an answer by posting it on two sites, well, by gum, why not maximize your odds by posting it on twenty sites!

There are some questions which fall into grey areas between sites, and I think it's OK to ask and delete, then re-ask if you feel you have asked on the wrong site.

If you cross-post a question, make sure the question is tailored to each audience on the different sites and is materially different in each case.

It is also considered good practice to post a link to the other question on the other site, so everyone can see what portion has already been answered and let you know if you've violated the sites no cross-posting policy; which is present on most of the site's per child metas.

But as a general rule, do not cross-post questions, please. Pick a site and go with it.

Just to be 100% clear, copy-pasting a question across sites with no changes is considered abusive behavior.

Allowing cross-posting is a slippery slope.

If you might have slightly better odds of getting an answer by posting it on two sites, well, by gum, why not maximize your odds by posting it on twenty sites!

There are some questions which fall into grey areas between sites, and I think it's OK to ask and delete, then re-ask if you feel you have asked on the wrong site.

If you cross-post a question, make sure the question is tailored to each audience on the different sites and is materially different in each case.

But as a general rule, do not cross-post questions, please. Pick a site and go with it.

Just to be 100% clear, copy-pasting a question across sites with no changes is considered abusive behavior.

Allowing cross-posting is a slippery slope.

If you might have slightly better odds of getting an answer by posting it on two sites, well, by gum, why not maximize your odds by posting it on twenty sites!

There are some questions which fall into grey areas between sites, and I think it's OK to ask and delete, then re-ask if you feel you have asked on the wrong site.

But as a general rule, do not cross-post questions, please. Pick a site and go with it.

Just to be 100% clear, copy-pasting a question across sites with no changes is considered abusive behavior.

Allowing cross-posting is a slippery slope.

If you might have slightly better odds of getting an answer by posting it on two sites, well, by gum, why not maximize your odds by posting it on twenty sites!

There are some questions which fall into grey areas between sites, and I think it's OK to ask and delete, then re-ask if you feel you have asked on the wrong site.

If you cross-post a question, make sure the question is tailored to each audience on the different sites and is materially different in each case.

But as a general rule, do not cross-post questions, please. Pick a site and go with it.

Just to be 100% clear, copy-pasting a question across sites with no changes is considered abusive behavior.

If [this statement](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/64068#comment181805_64068) by Jeff Atwood is (still) considered an official rule, I find it much too important to be left merely in a comment.
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Allowing cross-posting is a slippery slope.

If you might have slightly better odds of getting an answer by posting it on two sites, well, by gum, why not maximize your odds by posting it on twenty sites!

There are some questions which fall into grey areas between sites, and I think it's OK to ask and delete, then re-ask if you feel you have asked on the wrong site.

But as a general rule, do not cross-post questions, please. Pick a site and go with it.

Just to be 100% clear, copy-pasting a question across sites with no changes is considered abusive behavior.

Allowing cross-posting is a slippery slope.

If you might have slightly better odds of getting an answer by posting it on two sites, well, by gum, why not maximize your odds by posting it on twenty sites!

There are some questions which fall into grey areas between sites, and I think it's OK to ask and delete, then re-ask if you feel you have asked on the wrong site.

But as a general rule, do not cross-post questions, please. Pick a site and go with it.

Allowing cross-posting is a slippery slope.

If you might have slightly better odds of getting an answer by posting it on two sites, well, by gum, why not maximize your odds by posting it on twenty sites!

There are some questions which fall into grey areas between sites, and I think it's OK to ask and delete, then re-ask if you feel you have asked on the wrong site.

But as a general rule, do not cross-post questions, please. Pick a site and go with it.

Just to be 100% clear, copy-pasting a question across sites with no changes is considered abusive behavior.

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