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Just a bystander here, but imported content is very off-putting. It basically says to visitors: There is so little traffic that they have to copy stuff from elsewhere so you don't notice there're...
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Olin Lathrop
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2020-11-01T19:45:31Z (about 4 years ago)
- Just a bystander here, but imported content is very off-putting. It basically says to visitors:<ul>
- <li>There is so little traffic that they have to copy stuff from elsewhere so you don't notice there're only crickets chirping here.
- <li>You're in the wrong place. The real content is Over There.
- <li>Answering an imported question is a waste of time since the asker isn't here and they'll never see it.
- <li>If you happened to bump into this place, you should definitely check out Over There, since that's where the content you're seeing came from in the first place.
- </ul>
- Look around and see that the three sites that imported content are doing very poorly (Scientific Speculation, Writing, and Outdoors). They are in the bottom four ranked by recent activity.
- <blockquote>the ability to import the content was one of the inducements for people (like me) who had created a lot of content at the other place</blockquote>
- I faced the same issue moving to here from elsewhere. To get the new Electrical Engineering site going, I started with a few of my more popular answers at the other place. However, instead of just copying them, I used the opportunity to clean them up a bit, make the question more to the point, fix awkward wording, etc.
- I also only did that to my own content. That way I didn't need to include any attribution. Attributions add clutter here, and invite people to go elsewhere.
- When I started with one of my answers to someone else's question, I rewrote the question in my own words from the concept. That's useful anyway. Unlike the original questioner, I know what the answer is, and can ask the question better to be more generic, but also to target it better to the answer I want to write.
- Here are some examples:<ul>
<li><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/27486/what-is-a-boot-loader-and-how-would-i-develop-one/27490#27490">Original</a>, <a href="https://electrical.codidact.com/questions/276305">here</a><li><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/23645/how-do-i-calculate-the-required-value-for-a-pull-up-resistor/23647#23647">Original</a>, <a href="https://electrical.codidact.com/questions/276136">here</a>- <li><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/28251/rules-and-guidelines-for-drawing-good-schematics">Original</a>, <a href="https://electrical.codidact.com/questions/278601">here</a>
- </ul>
- Just a bystander here, but imported content is very off-putting. It basically says to visitors:<ul>
- <li>There is so little traffic that they have to copy stuff from elsewhere so you don't notice there're only crickets chirping here.
- <li>You're in the wrong place. The real content is Over There.
- <li>Answering an imported question is a waste of time since the asker isn't here and they'll never see it.
- <li>If you happened to bump into this place, you should definitely check out Over There, since that's where the content you're seeing came from in the first place.
- </ul>
- Look around and see that the three sites that imported content are doing very poorly (Scientific Speculation, Writing, and Outdoors). They are in the bottom four ranked by recent activity.
- <blockquote>the ability to import the content was one of the inducements for people (like me) who had created a lot of content at the other place</blockquote>
- I faced the same issue moving to here from elsewhere. To get the new Electrical Engineering site going, I started with a few of my more popular answers at the other place. However, instead of just copying them, I used the opportunity to clean them up a bit, make the question more to the point, fix awkward wording, etc.
- I also only did that to my own content. That way I didn't need to include any attribution. Attributions add clutter here, and invite people to go elsewhere.
- When I started with one of my answers to someone else's question, I rewrote the question in my own words from the concept. That's useful anyway. Unlike the original questioner, I know what the answer is, and can ask the question better to be more generic, but also to target it better to the answer I want to write.
- Here are some examples:<ul>
- <li><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/27486/what-is-a-boot-loader-and-how-would-i-develop-one">Original</a>, <a href="https://electrical.codidact.com/questions/276305">here</a>
- <li><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/23645/how-do-i-calculate-the-required-value-for-a-pull-up-resistor">Original</a>, <a href="https://electrical.codidact.com/questions/276136">here</a>
- <li><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/28251/rules-and-guidelines-for-drawing-good-schematics">Original</a>, <a href="https://electrical.codidact.com/questions/278601">here</a>
- </ul>
#2: Post edited
by
Olin Lathrop
·
2020-11-01T19:40:14Z (about 4 years ago)
- Just a bystander here, but imported content is very off-putting. It basically says to visitors:<ul>
- <li>There is so little traffic that they have to copy stuff from elsewhere so you don't notice there're only crickets chirping here.
- <li>You're in the wrong place. The real content is Over There.
- <li>Answering an imported question is a waste of time since the asker isn't here and they'll never see it.
- <li>If you happened to bump into this place, you should definitely check out Over There, since that's where the content you're seeing came from in the first place.
- </ul>
Look around and see that the three sites that imported content are doing very poorly (Scientific Speculation, Writing, and Outdoors). They are in the bottom four ranked by recent activity.
- Just a bystander here, but imported content is very off-putting. It basically says to visitors:<ul>
- <li>There is so little traffic that they have to copy stuff from elsewhere so you don't notice there're only crickets chirping here.
- <li>You're in the wrong place. The real content is Over There.
- <li>Answering an imported question is a waste of time since the asker isn't here and they'll never see it.
- <li>If you happened to bump into this place, you should definitely check out Over There, since that's where the content you're seeing came from in the first place.
- </ul>
- Look around and see that the three sites that imported content are doing very poorly (Scientific Speculation, Writing, and Outdoors). They are in the bottom four ranked by recent activity.
- <blockquote>the ability to import the content was one of the inducements for people (like me) who had created a lot of content at the other place</blockquote>
- I faced the same issue moving to here from elsewhere. To get the new Electrical Engineering site going, I started with a few of my more popular answers at the other place. However, instead of just copying them, I used the opportunity to clean them up a bit, make the question more to the point, fix awkward wording, etc.
- I also only did that to my own content. That way I didn't need to include any attribution. Attributions add clutter here, and invite people to go elsewhere.
- When I started with one of my answers to someone else's question, I rewrote the question in my own words from the concept. That's useful anyway. Unlike the original questioner, I know what the answer is, and can ask the question better to be more generic, but also to target it better to the answer I want to write.
- Here are some examples:<ul>
- <li><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/27486/what-is-a-boot-loader-and-how-would-i-develop-one/27490#27490">Original</a>, <a href="https://electrical.codidact.com/questions/276305">here</a>
- <li><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/23645/how-do-i-calculate-the-required-value-for-a-pull-up-resistor/23647#23647">Original</a>, <a href="https://electrical.codidact.com/questions/276136">here</a>
- <li><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/28251/rules-and-guidelines-for-drawing-good-schematics">Original</a>, <a href="https://electrical.codidact.com/questions/278601">here</a>
- </ul>
#1: Initial revision
by
Olin Lathrop
·
2020-10-31T22:44:25Z (about 4 years ago)
Just a bystander here, but imported content is very off-putting. It basically says to visitors:<ul> <li>There is so little traffic that they have to copy stuff from elsewhere so you don't notice there're only crickets chirping here. <li>You're in the wrong place. The real content is Over There. <li>Answering an imported question is a waste of time since the asker isn't here and they'll never see it. <li>If you happened to bump into this place, you should definitely check out Over There, since that's where the content you're seeing came from in the first place. </ul> Look around and see that the three sites that imported content are doing very poorly (Scientific Speculation, Writing, and Outdoors). They are in the bottom four ranked by recent activity.