I've noticed a couple of questions where the poster originally posted on Stackoverflow and then was sent here. However, its not a proper code review question because the code doesn't actually work.
Here are the examples:
- https://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/2309/hamming-encoder-decoder
- https://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/1764/my-program-compiles-and-runs-but-there-is-a-logical-error-preventing-some-code-f/1776
- https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/83850/evolutionary-algorithm-to-guess-a-string-messed-up-by-replication?noredirect=1
The problem is that they get wrongly redirected from stackoverflow and then closed here. It really sucks for the asker because they get bounced from site to site without getting any answers. It would seem some people on stackoverflow have the wrong notion about what this site does. Is there something that can be done to prevent it?