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What are the guidelines for porting one's answers from ElectricalEngineering.SE, if any?
I've noticed that in the edit account section there is a (inactive) link to one's content on a StackExchange site.
This made me wonder if it is appropriate to transfer some content from EE.SE manually.
I have quite a bunch of good answers there and I'd like to "migrate" them here, perhaps after a bit of editing, depending on the question to which I was answering (I'd probably need to make up a new question because some of my good answers were to somewhat incomplete or foggy questions).
Therefore I'm asking:
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Is it acceptable to "port" one's answers from EE.SE?
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Is there some guidelines to do that, especially regarding creating a matching question, either because the OP was not too good or to avoid "stealing" the work of the person who wrote it?
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Sorry I didn't notice this earlier.
We definitely don't just want to import questions and answers directly from SE. This has been discussed several times on various Codidact sites. Some of the first few Codidact sites did mass-import from SE, and that didn't go very well. Those sites are doing particularly poorly. One possibility is that search engines downgrade a site when it has significant duplicate content of another.
It can be OK to carefully and selectively import a few of your best posts from SE. I did some of that to get this site going over a year ago now, but have not done so recently, and don't plan to. This concept was discussed on the Writing site a while back, and my answer there applies just as well here.
Some points to consider:
- Don't get caught in the sunk cost fallacy. Yes, you did some work elsewhere, and may feel justifiably proud of it. But, that was in another place at another time. We are building this site from scratch. What you did someone else doesn't give you any points here. Try to focus on creating new original content here.
- Please don't bring over anything but your own content. If it requires a disclaimer, we don't want it. Disclaimers advertise the site the content came from.
- If your own content doesn't make sense without someone else's (like an answer to someone else's question), re-write the other content in your own words. Bring over the thoughts (if you must), but definitely don't bring over someone else's words.
- If you do bring over your own content from elsewhere, make it better here than there. There is always something to fix, word better, add, etc. We want to be better than elsewhere. Obviously that's not possibly by copying content from elsewhere.
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