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119 questions linked to/from Is cross-posting a question on multiple Stack Exchange sites permitted if the question is on-topic for each site?
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How does duplicate closing work? When is a question a duplicate, and how should duplicate questions be handled?
Questions can be closed as duplicates. When are two questions considered duplicates? Which question is the duplicate? It's a duplicate. What do I do? Should I edit the question? Should I answer it? ...
123 votes
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What to do with cross-site duplicates?
What's the right course of action for cross-site duplicates? There are two flavors: A question is posted which belongs on another site and ends up already having been asked there. I can't find an ...
298 votes
1 answer
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What can I do when getting "We are no longer accepting questions/answers from this account"?
If you are reading this, you may have been affected by one of our post quality bans. If so, it is important that you read the following information to understand what has happened and how to regain ...
59 votes
5 answers
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Is cross-posting wrong (to an external site)?
I made a question at Stack Overflow long ago and also posted the same question in a non-Stack Exchange website (Xtreme VB Talk). The question was answered, Combining two PNG images into one image ...
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5 answers
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Should Programmers.SE exist? [closed]
Edit Wow I got royally lynched for this. Please see the accepted answer which illustrates the reasons for Programmers to exist pretty well. I'd like to say for the record I stand corrected - ...
49 votes
4 answers
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Can we automate detection of cross-posting?
How difficult would it be to detect cross-posts when the relevant questions have identical titles and content, and are posted by the same user? As an example: Original, posted on SO Following day, ...
70 votes
2 answers
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Difference between the Cross Validated and Data Science SE sites?
The site description of Cross Validated (CV) says: Cross Validated is a question and answer site for people interested in statistics, machine learning, data analysis, data mining, and data ...
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5 answers
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Is it OK to crosspost Stack Overflow questions, now that the Portuguese SO is open?
Somehow related (but not exactly) to Is it OK to translate and repost Stack Overflow questions/answers in different language? Let's suppose I have a question in the following manner: How do to x with ...
30 votes
3 answers
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Clarification regarding cross-posting rules
I asked one question over on skeptics.stackexchange.com about empirical evidence for programmer productivity. One user then prompted me that I'd have more luck over on programmers.stackexchange.com, ...
17 votes
3 answers
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Where to ask question about logic?
I've got a question I want to ask about logic, specifically vacuous truths, but I'm not sure where, if anywhere, on SE it would go. My first choice would be a logic SE site, but I didn't see any in ...
6 votes
4 answers
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Which is better for help debugging code, Stack Overflow or Code Review?
I'm pretty new to the Stack Exchange network. I'm currently teaching myself programming and have been getting help with code issues on Stack Overflow. I've used Code Review a couple times and found ...
23 votes
2 answers
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How to discourage people encouraging reposting?
I'm mostly on Programmers.SE. All too not-uncommonly we get a question that is multiply posted - once on Stack Overflow, and once on P.SE. It is almost standard practice to check to see if there is ...
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3 answers
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Dissonance between allowing signposts and forbidding crossposts
I want to call out the dissonance between Stack Exchange favoring redundant content within one community and forbidding redundant content between multiple communities. How can we say that duplicate ...
30 votes
2 answers
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Should the Disciplined and Peer Pressure badges be (partially) retired?
For context: the Disciplined and Peer Pressure badges are awarded for deleting one's own content with a score of 3 or higher or -3 or lower respectively. Earlier today, someone posted a comment that ...
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2 answers
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Difference between "Movies & TV" and "Scifi and Fantasy" Stack Exchanges?
I'm wondering what the difference between these two sites are? My confusion is due to seeing some users ask about (let's say Game of Thrones) on both sites. Normally the case might be that users would ...