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Agressively Migrate old SO posts to generate search traffic

I had an idea for promoting this site, and I was wondering if it was feasible. Basically, I think we should migrate old theory/CS questions from StackOverflow to this site. I often end up googling ...
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Belongs on stackoverflow close reason

I currently only see belongs on meta.cs close reason, when you choose to close as off-topic. Is it possible to add stackoverflow to it?
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Questions more suitable for “Computational Science” instead of “Computer Science”

I noticed that there are quite some "simple" questions with the tag "numerical-analysis" or "linear-algebra", which haven got a "good" answer so far. Of course, I could try to write good answers to ...
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Would a question on designing a compression algorithm belong on CS?

Some time ago, I asked Compression of domain names on StackOverflow. I had been wondering whether it wouldn't be more suited to CSTheory, but now understand that it does not. Is it more suited to CS ...
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What should our policy on research-level theoretical questions be?

This site encompasses computer science at all levels. This includes research-level questions about theoretical computer science which are also on-topic on our sister site Theoretical Computer Science. ...
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Non-answers by non-users

Consider this answer by a user who has not yet created an account on cs.SE (the question that has been migrated to us). It is not useful so I wanted to convert it to a comment. This causes: Comment ...
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If we find questions to Shanghai where should we leave a link for mods to find them?

I suggested for this person to join us but they only know about SO. See: distributed alpha beta pruning Can a mod Shanghai them. It's seems like more of a pirate thing here than Shanghai.
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Migrating unanswered theory questions to cstheory.SE

cstheory.SE has a strict research-level scope and occasionally migrates non research-level questions to CS.SE. The two sites also share parts of their user base; as one of those shared members (who is ...
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reposting closed questions from cstheory

There have been many questions on CST that were either closed, or just not answered because they weren't considered research level. May those questions (as long as they are of good quality) be ...