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| May 22, 2015 at 12:51 | comment | added | yannis Mod | @Snowman I understand that, but I'd also expect our more experienced users to at least try something else before flagging (things that don't absolutely require mod intervention). Like, for example, politely explaining to the asker why we don't enjoy crossposting. Neither commenting nor voting to close are mod only features, and nothing else can be done about cross posting. If you haven't done either and went straight to flagging, you are doing it wrong. | |
| May 22, 2015 at 12:45 | comment | added | user22815 | @Yannis I understand, which is why I do not flag in those cases. But it can be frustrating to see questions that need to be closed not get closed because nobody has any votes. That might explain some of the flags, I don't know because I can't see the flag queue. | |
| May 22, 2015 at 12:42 | comment | added | yannis Mod | Running out of CVs/DVs is not a good reason to flag @Snowman, except on the more extreme cases. | |
| May 22, 2015 at 12:40 | comment | added | user22815 | It can be difficult to resolve the situation on our own when the only active members with CV privileges are perpetually out of CVs. | |
| May 17, 2015 at 14:16 | comment | added | maple_shaft Mod | Most of the time of a question is copy pasted it won't meet this requirement. I have declined such flags before and Yannis was probably in the right to do so. | |
| May 17, 2015 at 14:13 | comment | added | maple_shaft Mod | I have to dig it up, but I asked this same question about a year or two ago and found a Meta Stackexchange discussion that basically said, crossposting alone is not enough reason to close a question. The question must however, be on topic at both sites, and worded in such a way that it addresses the appropriate community and seeks to get answers that requires such expertise. If the question were crossposted here from CS and was seeking expertise from a computer science perspective as opposed to a pragmatic engineering perspective then it should be closed. | |
| May 16, 2015 at 19:46 | comment | added | gnat | @Gilles frankly I didn't know that it's that serious but now that you mentioned it, I re-checked faq question referred from tag wiki and found this comment from Atwood: "Just to be 100% clear, copy-pasting a question across sites with no changes is considered abusive behavior." | |
| May 16, 2015 at 14:33 | comment | added | yannis Mod | I don't see anything about closing on topic questions there @Gilles. I also don't see anything about validating flags from people who already have the ability to do what's necessary on their own (in this case, vote to close). As for our meta thread on cross posts: Should cross-posting be allowed sometimes on Programmers? | |
| May 16, 2015 at 14:23 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | September 2010: if a question is posted on multiple sites, close all but one of the copies. This is an MSE (formerly MSO) policy, not an official Stack Exchange policy, so sites can opt out, but most haven't (I know that Stack Overflow, Super User, Server Fault, Unix & Linux, Ask Ubuntu, Information Security, Cryptography, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Movies & TV, Software Recommendations, Computer Science, Theoretical Computer Science haven't). Where's the meta thread that states that Software Engineering accept multiposts? | |
| May 16, 2015 at 14:08 | comment | added | yannis Mod | @Gilles "the question needs to be closed, regardless of topicality" When did we start closing questions regardless of topicality? | |
| May 16, 2015 at 14:06 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | This answer is bizarre. Flagging cross-posts is normal activity — the question needs to be closed, regardless of topicality. Does Software Engineering have an exception from the general network policy? If so, please inform your fellow moderators (I'm a Computer Science moderator and we get the occasional cross-post with Progse). Even the SO moderators haven't issued such a “don't flag crossposts” request that I know of. | |
| May 16, 2015 at 10:32 | history | answered | yannisMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |