Migrating questions to Stack Overflow

Question

In this question, the poster noticed that the question was closed rather than being migrated. Comments say that the question was cross-posted, so it was just closed on our site.

In the comments, it appears that some people think that we should tell the poster to re-post to the site where the question would be on-topic.

On Stack Overflow, most people are strongly against telling people to cross-post. Is this sentiment the same across all SE sites?

I know we are Beta, so I assume it is harder for us to migrate questions to other sites. Have we fallen into the mindset that the user should delete their post here and re-post on the site where their question will be on-topic?

Why are we closing these questions as opposed to migrating them?

Migrating these questions would give a link back to Code Review which, in my opinion, would be a good advertisement for our site inside the SE network.

Answer 1

Gareth Rees is correct about it being impossible to migrate directly due to our beta state. Until we graduate, we'll have to continue closing and/or flagging for migration.

I don't see this entirely as a bad thing, though. This will give us the opportunity to get used to knowing exactly which questions belong on SO. Sure, it's already simple enough (not working, understanding code snippets, etc.), but some questions can still be tossed out by them. Essentially, the question has to

1. be on-topic for SO and
2. not be crap.

Just because they may sometimes dump their trash here (usually due to not knowing exactly what we allow), doesn't mean we have to do the same. ;-)

Although this may not be an issue for us per se, there's the possibility of migrating an off-topic question that was already originally asked over there. In other words, someone tells the OP to post the question here instead of flagging it for migration. So, we see that it's off-topic, then send it over there... and they have an exact duplicate. Not a big deal I suppose, but what I'm saying is that both sites need to be familiar with the target site's FAQ. There's too many people to count on that, though I'm not sure if a moderator needs to be flagged for each migration request.