Timeline for Migration path between Travel and Expatriates
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| Feb 1, 2018 at 19:55 | comment | added | JonathanReez Mod | @Harper Expats.SE is in fact unhealthy as there aren't many good questions and answers there. Expat problems are simply a lot more complex than Travel problems (e.g. singular Schengen rules vs. individual migration rules in 26 Schengen countries) so it's impossible to keep the site popular without lots of committed and knowledgeable users posting answers. I've previously suggested that StackExchange should hire a few immigration lawyers to answers Qs 24/7, but that's not something they're interested in. | |
| Jan 27, 2018 at 6:29 | comment | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | Killing migration seems like a way to junk up stacks with closed questions. They're not free, they tie up resources. Maybe they need a more streamlined migration process, like if 2 voters suggest a migration, it tells OP and OP can click "Yeah do it" same as they can accept edits. I don't agree that Expats is unhealthy merely because so many questions come from here. | |
| Jan 26, 2018 at 23:59 | comment | added | Zach Lipton | And yet (I realize this is not your fault @JoErNanO), that's from 2015 and migrations are still around. Policy is supposed to be there to benefit the site and its users, not to satisfy arbitrary preferences. It's not just as easy for the asker to re-post, because we sometimes end up having to give more specific directions, and we make the asker feel stupid instead of just fixing their understandable mistake for them. If there's community consensus on both sides that a migration path would be useful and the sites fit the criteria, why does Expats being in perpetual beta make a difference? | |
| Jan 26, 2018 at 23:39 | comment | added | JoErNanO Mod | @ZachLipton I think SE wants to move away from migrations altogether. Quoting from the linked Meta.SE post by Shog: "Truth is, migrations are not often particularly necessary. It's usually just as easy for the asker to re-post his question on a new site as it is for 5 close-voters or a moderator to migrate." In other words the plan for the future seems to be to make closing on A and reposting on B the standard way to deal with these cases since 1) it removes the need for migration 2) creates directed traffic to B 3) creates new users on B thus helping build a community. | |
| Jan 26, 2018 at 22:37 | comment | added | Zach Lipton | Thanks for talking to Shog about this; much appreciated. Is there any justification for this rule being applied in this case or do the SE admins simply refuse to consider any exception regardless of rationale? | |
| Jan 26, 2018 at 22:34 | history | answered | JoErNanOMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |