> What might really quack you up is [...] > So, I'm not ducking this, we're birds of a feather here, but let's see how effort into something a little less jarring plays out after we iterate over it a few times or folks might cry fowl.
@Shog9 Can you please undelete and clear the migration history of meta.stackexchange.com/questions/17016/…? While it's off-topic for MSE today, I don't think it should be deleted just because it was migrated from Stack Overflow. It has a positive score and lived happily for a long time.
(For context to <10k users: that question has a score of +31 and is only about SO, and was posted to SO back in 2008 when it was common to post meta questions on SO itself. Then, it was migrated to then-Meta.SO, now MSE. After the MSO-MSE split, older questions about SO have been closed as off-topic. As this was originally migrated, closing it rejected the migration, and it's since been automatically deleted as a rejected migration.)
@rene I wonder why you edited but didn't vote to reopen...
A question was asked on Site A, where it collected answers before being migrated to Site B. On Site B it collected more answers and lived happily for a time. More than two years later, it was closed.
Because it had been migrated originally, the closure was treated as a rejected migration. Thi...
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog because I want to know if the OP agrees with my edit and is still interested in the question. If not I rather delete vote ...
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog I meant the message you pinged shog for ....
@rene If that's so: In my opinion, I think the question is still valuable. Shog has complained about us closing migrated questions and has cleared migration histories in similar circumstances.
@Tinkeringbell By the way, speaking of your most recent tweet (I don't have an active Twitter account): That type of ice cream is extremely popular in the U.S.
@Shog9 "My areas of expertise are J2EE and Spring Framework, and I'm starting to get a little frustrated because most of the questions are in categories where I don't have much expertise." … "For now I'll just keep monitoring the J2EE and Spring tags"
@Shog9 What do you think of migrating it to MSO after reopening it?
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog Nah, it's been around for years here too ;) very popular as well, just like magnum ice cream. Just the display drew my attention, I'd never seen ice cream marketed like that before (there were other sorts of ice cream just the same way ;) )
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog is the question in any way specific to J2EE and/or Spring?
Lots of answers delving deep into the unique challenges of Java programming?
Extensive commentary on how Stack Overflow works poorly for folks who've specialized in UI design?
Maybe... At least the top answer is wholly inapplicable to someone who, say, specializes in cider brewing on a homebrew site, or someone who only plays Magic The Gathering on a cardgames site?
Only Stack Overflow has an unanswered list perhaps?
If (hypothetically) I encounter a question that I voted to close back before aged close votes were being tracked, and I still believe it should be closed, what should I do? Should I flag for moderator attention? Is this an acceptable use of a sock puppet to cast a recommend closure flag? After all, in spirit, I should be able to recast the vote and have it reviewed for closure again; the only hurdle is purely technical. — Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog15 hours ago
It is not an acceptable use of a sockpuppet, @Sonic. Also, the chances of you finding such a question are not high. Raising the matter on meta is always an option. — Shog9 ♦5 secs ago
You could flag for moderator attention, but... Finding a post that's both been around for > half a decade and is so blatantly inappropriate that it needs a moderator's attention is... It happens, but it's not something that's gonna happen every day.