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Does SOCVR work as a current workaround to get help with migration? Alternatively, just organizing a dedicated chat room with SMEs to coordinate migration votes?
– starball
Commented Dec 1, 2022 at 10:06
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No idea about socvr, I once tried to understand all their rules, but it seems very complicate to understand what's allowed to be posted. A dedicated chat room would not be viable. A high quality question, which wouldn't be a duplicate on the target site, happens maybe once a month, so even if there were enough SME on SO, the room would frequently freeze over....
– samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz
Commented Dec 1, 2022 at 10:17
Well, rooms seem to be designed to usually be short lived. It's just that most popular rooms are the exceptions to that, since they have a reason to be highly active. What's not viable about creating a short-lived room for when such a migrate-worthy question springs up, and then sending join-invites to the people you know can/want-to help with that migration?
– starball
Commented Dec 1, 2022 at 10:21
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@starball Sounds like a lot of work for what should be a simple task
– samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz
Commented Dec 1, 2022 at 10:35
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And even more valuable than just a new role would be making more target sites available!
– Bergi
Commented Dec 1, 2022 at 13:04
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@Bergi Traditionally more target sites were declined with "these sites don't want all the rubbish asked on SO", but this would hardly be a problem if the users doing the migration have enough experience on the target sites.
– samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz
Commented Dec 1, 2022 at 13:07
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This should be implemented for all trusted users. As in, the site should be able to trust someone with lets say 10k+ rep on both sites to handle migrations, a "migration hammer" similar to dupe hammers. Perhaps raise the bar to 20k rep on SO and lower it to 5k on low traffic sites. It's ridiculous that we need to involve two diamond mods for migrations, one per site (technically I think just 1 is needed, but any random diamond mod is not necessarily aware of the scope on some other random SE site other than the one where they are mod).
– Lundin
Commented Dec 2, 2022 at 14:26
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@starball SOCVR Is not a particularly good venue for getting questions migrated. Migration outside of the tiny subset of prescribed options requires input and assistance from moderators, often from both sites. Even migration to one of the prescribed site works only if every close voter picks that option and it is done within a short window of time after the question is posted. I'd rather have work on migrations handled at the Ask Wizard level. Fix the problem automatically, before it becomes a problem that requires human intervention.
– TylerH
Commented Dec 14, 2022 at 14:57

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