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Why can I only choose certain sites for migrating a question? [duplicate]
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Why can I only choose certain sites for migrating a question?
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Originally (6 years and 9 months ago): When voting to migrate an off-topic question, ...
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Avoid dead-end when flagging for migration and site isn't listed
This is the last step a person might take before hitting a dead-end:
This question belongs on another site in the Stack Exchange network
I recently wanted to flag a question on SO as belonging on ...
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Improve migrating questions between Stack Exchange sites
This question is related to Move questions between Stack Exchange sites but as I don't want to bring back a 7 years old topic for an improvement, allow me to make a new one.
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Moving a question should be a top-level option when flagging, and contain an "Other" option
I'd like to propose a new feature: that there should be a top-level option when flagging, and an "other" option in the Flag -> Migration dialog.
For example, I'd like to move my question to Computer ...
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Don't raise a closed-without-comment flag for migrations
When we migrated this question on SR (timeline, mod-only) to another site, Community raised a "closed w/o comment (auto)" flag.
This left a useless comment on the migration stub left on my ...
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Alternative approach to migration [duplicate]
Before I make this suggestion, I'm going to lay out some guidelines for what should and should not be migrated between sites. The method for migration I'm about to suggest only makes sense if we can ...
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Explicitly state that a question is too old to migrate instead of omitting the option entirely
Questions older than 60 days can't be migrated by moderators. The way this is currently implemented in the flagging and closing UI is that the option "This question belongs on another site in the ...
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Move migrate option in flag dialog to "this question doesn't belong here" submenu [duplicate]
I just realized that the migration option is buried under many levels in the flag dialog:
This takes many clicks to reach, and, besides, it's hard to find.
Why not keep it in the "this question ...
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Flag dialog pages should include "other" reference
With all due respect to the flag dialog designers, many of the sets of choices leave me wanting to say "none of the above". One of the most frustrating occurred recently about four pages "in" when I ...
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Allow user to flag a question as belonging on a specific site specified by user
If a user wants to flag a question as off-topic and belonging on another site, they most likely follow the path illustrated here to do so. If the site they had in mind is not in the suggested list (...
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Can we PLEASE stop deleting these very useful old questions?
Earlier, I flagged a question for migration to Ask Different, here:
Graphical Diff For Mac OSX?
My logic was that this question had valuable answers, and was quite popular (489 upvotes, 134 stars), ...
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Communicate rejected flagged migrations more clearly
When I flagged my question for migration, it received a "helpful" flag, but nothing happened; apparently this means the target site rejected the migration. The same issue is raised in this meta post.
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Add "Flag as Other" checkbox to "Vote to Close as Off-Topic" dialog
Ok, after seeing the idea here, and following the chain here, and seeing it here, I think I have the best time/stress saving option for closing as off-topic.
How about we put a checkbox in the close ...
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Off-topic flag should allow "other" choice text entry [duplicate]
Right now, when I flag something as off-topic, I can choose from a pre-defined set of "blessed" SO sites to suggest for migration.
I see there are already a lot of questions about this design choice ...
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Why aren't all Stack Exchange sites available when flagging a question as off topic? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Move to any site?
Should some communities have more than 4 migration targets?
It occurs to me, more often than not, that I want to flag a Stack Overflow question to move it ...
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