There are some questions which are answered quite well by a nearly-identical question on another site (say, computer science's stack exchange, or math overflow). Should those questions get answers just pointing towards those other sites? Should those questions be closed? etc.
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- 2$\begingroup$ Related: Closing questions as off topic if they have an answer on mathoverflow?. My personal preference is to write a more accessible version of the answer from the other site. For example, I tried this here, which made sense because the MO answer was too terse for the OP to digest. (Though it's not clear if the OP benefited: he did not revisit MSE after my answer.) $\endgroup$Post No Bulls– Post No Bulls2013-12-26 06:54:49 +00:00Commented Dec 26, 2013 at 6:54
- $\begingroup$ Related: Questions x-posted and answered on MO $\endgroup$Grigory M– Grigory M2013-12-26 07:43:25 +00:00Commented Dec 26, 2013 at 7:43
- $\begingroup$ Both of those questions seem basically related to my question, but have about three different answers among them... $\endgroup$Mark S.– Mark S.2013-12-27 02:49:08 +00:00Commented Dec 27, 2013 at 2:49
- 1$\begingroup$ For the ones that should be closed, the software will sometimes not allow for closing as an off-site duplicate. In these cases, it is necessary to use the custom close reason, which is available under Close -> Off Topic -> Other, and leave a message explaining the reason for voting to close. This is the general method for voting to close when the software does not have a specific reason for the situation at hand. $\endgroup$Carl Mummert– Carl Mummert2016-09-03 17:27:02 +00:00Commented Sep 3, 2016 at 17:27
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Post No Bulls answered this in a Comment, and I'm promoting it to an Answer of the Community Wiki persuasion:
Related: Closing questions as off topic if they have an answer on mathoverflow?. My personal preference is to write a more accessible version of the answer from the other site. For example, I tried this here, which made sense because the MO answer was too terse for the OP to digest. (Though it's not clear if the OP benefited: he did not revisit MSE after my answer.)