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As someone who dabbled in SO I quickly became disillusioned with the site after I posted a question on LaTeX and quickly had it closed and then was shuttled over to the "new" LaTeX site. IMHO, If the question doesn't fit the current policy don't make the submitter waste his time posting the same material on 5 different SO sites in order to get a hit. Find a way to transfer it where the conversation can continue to flourish.

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I don't seem to understand what you are saying. Answers and comments are transferred when a question is migrated. In all cases where users have a problem it is best to raise your issue on meta.stackoverflow.com or at least reference the question you are talking about above.

Most LaTeX question are not programming questions, so they get shipped over to the TeX site. You'll likely get a better answer there than on SO (that's the whole point of creating all these sites). And as phwd said, all the content (answers and comments) also get moved.

> Find a way to transfer it where the conversation can continue to flourish.

That's exactly what happened. 99% of questions get answered on the LaTeX site. It's one of the best communities in the SE network. Compare that to only about 90% of questions tagged 'latex' getting answered on Stack Overflow. Not bad, but still better to migrate them to an active site dedicated to the topic.

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