I encountered today the following question:     Because it should be asked in Math.SE site. I voted to close it. You can select it should be posted into one of five other forums, but  is not possible to select. Why are not all Stack Exchange sites available?
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Wouldn't it be a good idea to be able to vote for questions to be moved to any Stack Exchange site? For example, I just voted  as off topic, but that was all I could do. I wish I could've voted it be moved to .  It's OK to have the predefined list of sites that is now when voting to move, but it would be nice to have a more link, where we could pick any Stack Exchange site.  Here's a quick mockup of how I see this implemented:    When the more link is clicked, a list of all the Stack Exchange sites should appear.
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The Problem - The Stack Exchange network has so many sites with more being added all the time, a user probably doesn't know that a Stack Exchange site exists to answer a question they might have. In addition, when asking a question, the user might not know the best place to put the question. Asking the question on the wrong site could be downvoted, and it might not be in the user's best interest to ask the question if he/she doesn't know exactly where it belongs.  The Idea - A Stack Exchange site where you can ask any question, and it's up to reviewers of the question to decide which site would be best suited to answer the question.   I don't know much about the process for migrating questions to other sites as they stand today, but I think a voting system would be good, to allow reviewers to vote where the question belongs best, or someone with enough rep is allowed to move it directly.   The conditions that determine when a question is migrated could vary. Some ideas:   After a certain period of inactivity When the vote gap between the #1 and #2 result is large enough   The voting system should also have some way to denote that this question doesn't (yet) have a Stack Exchange site suited to answer the question.   When asking the question, the page could provide a list of similar questions as it does now, and "suggested site" box. This way, if they're writing the question they could see some suggestions as to where the question might belong. They could then select one of those sites and have it submitted on that site. The primary data source for this would probably be the tags. For instance, if the user enters tags that have a lot of followers on StackOverflow, the page would suggest that the question might belong on StackOverflow.  This feature would allow users to ask questions without being as concerned about where it belongs among the vast Stack Exchange network. In addition, this could be a valuable resource in determining what Stack Exchange sites people would like to see. If there are a lot of questions that are filed as "Site Doesn't Yet Exist To Answer This Question™", that would be an indicator that there is a need that Stack Exchange isn't currently fulfilling.  Please comment with any suggestions or criticisms.   PS: I hope that this is the correct place to post this suggestion.  Edit  Maybe a dumbed-down version of this might be useful. Instead of having the review process, just have a page for a user to enter their question, get suggestions to where it might belong, and choose at the end where the question belongs. Right now, choosing where to ask the question is the first step. I think moving it to a later point in the conception of the question would allow the asker to better categorize the question.
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On Stack Exchange sub-sites it seems to be a common practice to refer to other Stack Exchange sites by abbreviating the ".stackexchange.com" part of the domain to simply ".se" (often capitalized), as in "math.SE" or "unix.SE". These aren't actual Stack Exchange domains, but they could be, answering only to GET on the root path and redirecting to the relevant .stackexchange.com URL.  Pros:   Leverages an existing community custom from an abbreviation convention to actual references to the relevant sites. Shortens getting to the main page of a site by 15 characters.   Cons:   Some domains such as unix.se are already in use, which at the very least complicates things. Introduces an inconsistency if .se domains for some important sites cannot be bought.
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The title says it all: I'm confused as to the difference between mathoverflow.net and math.stackexchange.com.  Can anyone elaborate?  My its descriptions math.sx is a "Q&amp;A for people studying math at any level and professionals in related fields" and MathOverflow is a "Q&amp;A for professional mathematicians".  That's not a big help... :-)
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I recently saw a question about a problem (or possible bug) with some product on Stack Overflow. At first, I wanted to suggest that the asker post his question to that product's support forum.  When searching for the URL of that forum, I noticed that the product developer closed its support forums and now advises users to post all their questions on Stack Overflow instead.  Is this within the intended use cases of Stack Overflow, or is this abuse?
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I just visited Ask Ubuntu (askubuntu.com) while logged into Stack Exchange, and noticed that "join this community" doesn't appear:    It is similarly broken on Math Overflow (mathoverflow.net). It works, however, on all sites that are subdomains of stackexchange.com, like Mathematics (math.stackexchange.com) and Academia.  I'm using Google Chrome version 46.0.2490.86 on Windows 8.1 Update 1.  (I don't know if this can actually be fixed, given how cookie security works, but I figured Stack Exchange should be aware of the issue.)
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When I vote to close a question because it is off topic, the only other SE I can recommend the question to are the following 5:    In this instance I feel the question should have been posted at wordpress.stackexchange.com, but I have no way to suggest this?
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The news that  was recently brought to my attention.  I have updated  to use the alternate server given in the MathJax post.  It seems to work well, but if StackExchange is going to host a local copy to use with the sites that support MathJax, I will update ChatJax to use that server instead.  I  and was asked to post here. Also, I was told that the MathJax team has already contacted the SE devs about this. So my question becomes: what are the SE plans for continued support of MathJax?
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There seems to be more than a few computer science/programming Stack Exchange networks (is that the correct term?). Stack Overflow, being the first, has by far the most users, questions, and answers.  What is the reasoning for creating the others, and are there clear guidelines for which kinds of questions should be posted? I can see a large amount of potential overflow, many cases of people not getting a good answer to their question, because the person who has the answer isn't browsing that particular network at the moment.  I understand that they were probably created for organizational purposes, but wouldn't it almost make more sense to just have them as categories under Stack Overflow, keep them separated but still connected, instead of making people have to create multiple 'account's, one for each network?  I am sure there was a very good reason to break them up, but as someone that is new to SE, it can be somewhat intimidating to decide which one to post in to ensure you get a good answer. For example, if I am a computer science student, my first instinct might to be to post in the computer science network, until I see that it literally has 1% of the users as the Stack Overflow network, which still seems to be for programming/computer science related questions.  So my second instinct would then to be to post it into the Stack&nbsp;Overflow site on the basis that I have a significantly higher chance of my question being seen and getting a good answer. Then I notice that there is also a 'programmers' network, and I don't even begin to know where that fits in. I, and I am assuming most people, will probably just post on Stack&nbsp;Overflow to be safe.  My question is, other than the short little description blurb of each one, is there a clear cut set of guidelines which what each network is intended for, what kinds of questions should go to each one, and is anything being done to encourage people to post in these newer, smaller (more specialized?) networks as opposed to just posting in big daddy Stack Overflow?  Now again, this is for computer science/programming/"why isn't this code doing what I want?" related questions, I am not saying that if I had a question about Linux or WordPress or something I would have the same confusion.
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I recently posted some comments to an answer on Math.SE.  I pointed out (politely, I thought) some critical errors in the answer.  Later, on my personal blog (which is linked from my profile), someone with a similar username tried to post a large number of comments containing juvenile insults.  The user's behavior on Math.SE itself has not been abusive, as far as I can tell.    Is it worth bringing this to the attention of moderators?  Should I use a flag or the "Contact Us" button?  Or is this beyond their purview, and I should just handle it like any other abuse on my blog?  I don't so much care about seeing the user punished, but it would be nice to help prevent anyone else from being similarly annoyed by this person.  (I haven't linked the answer here to avoid public escalation, but I can if it would help.  Anyway, it's since been deleted.)  Edit: michaelb958's comments below suggest the user has also been posting similar insults on MathOverflow, so his abuse does include the SE network itself.  I'm contacting team@stackoverflow.com and will pass along my logs.
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was recently closed (partly thanks to my own vote to close it.) While it was closed as being "off topic", I'm not sure that's actually the case. The poster asked about resources for understanding the facade and decorator patterns. While it's not a perfect fit for SO (e.g. there was no actual code) the reason I personally voted to close was my disdain for the complete lack of research effort made. (A simple Google search turns up a ton of resources.)  I know that downvoting is intended to mark questions that show little research effort (as pointed out in ) but should be a strong enough reason to close?  I find myself voting to close for this reason relatively frequently, so I suppose my two questions are:   Is this a legitimate reason to vote to close, or should I just be downvoting these questions? If it is a legitimate reason, can it be added to the list of reasons for closure? I don't think it fits comfortably in any of the current reasons.
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In a SE site, if you put the link to a question, the link is parsed into the question's title. For example, https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/246034 produces .  But this does not work cross-sites.  Back at Programmers SE, I made  that contains a link to another question in StackOverflow, but as you can see, the link is not parsed.  I think it would be nice if all SE sites were parsed - even cross-sites.
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Is it OK to post a questionnaire on Stack Exchange sites?  I'm currently working on a project at my uni and need some empirical information about workouts. I want to explain more about the project, but that will come if it's "legal" to post a questionnaire here.
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"What library can I use to do X?" type of questions are not welcome on Stack Overflow, right?  Even if they are not welcome on SO proper, is there any other SE board where I could ask such questions?
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I don't know how new Stack Exchange sites get opened. I've found some of the new SE sites to be very useless. There are many different and important subjects that are not being addressed by any SE site. I strongly suggest creating a new SE site about unscientific psychology. I have come across many questions that are related to human problems that I would like to ask on an SE site.  How do new SE sites get opened up? Is there a place for voting up new SE sites?
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I frequent many of the SE sites, but sometimes I have a question on a topic that doesn't fit into any of the sites I've already used.  I find it difficult to find the right site (if one exists at all) for my new question. For example, I have a question about ipod functionality.  I'm not sure where to post it, so I looked at all the sites on the bottom, but didn't see anything.  I was on fitness.stackexchange.com at the time, and all of the links for different sites are blue, and they are in no order (or at least no order that I can tell) so it's very hard to parse.  I was looking for something like &quot;apple&quot; or &quot;iOS&quot; but didn't see it. Then I went to the main &quot;directory&quot; (or what I think of as the main directory) -  - again, this is very difficult to parse.  &quot;Bubbles&quot; are different sizes, and again in no specific order.  The only thing I could think to do was to actually do a text search on the web page for &quot;apple&quot;, and it wasn't there so I gave up and came here to ask. The worst part is that once I came here (meta), I glanced at the bottom of the page and immediate saw &quot;apple&quot;!  This link wasn't on the main directory, and wasn't in the collection of links on the other SE site (fitness).  So it was completely luck that I came to meta to ask this question, and the apple site happened to be in the links at the bottom of this page. Am I missing something?  Is there an easier way to find the list of SE sites?  And in general if I have a question, what's the best way to figure out what site to post it in?
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If I have a specific question I want to ask about, but I don't know which Stack Exchange site would be on topic for asking that question, where can I ask where to ask that question?  Is there any generic place where we can ask for advice? Is it here?  This is not about a specific question but in general.  For example: "Where should I ask for advice about fishing?", or if I need to know where I should ask "What would be the best fishing rod to fish for salmon?" (regardless of how good/bad these examples are)