Should I copy my content from the Other Site to this one?
Does it make sense to copy my content from the Other Site to this one?
To be clear, I definitely don't want a straight dump of all the content. I'm not even sure that some rule-based mechanism would be worthwhile... like "questions not closed, score +1 or higher".
But, for example, I have partially explored many of the subjects interesting to me through questions and answers on the other site. If I were to use this site to continue that exploration, does it make most sense to:
- Link to the C.SE question/answer that I'm building off of, similar to how I'd link to a Wikipedia article
- Manually copy the content I originally posted to C.SE here, tailoring it accordingly (for example, if I want to copy an answer I wrote, I could write a new question for it here as well).
- Ask for some sort of limited import. Perhaps just my questions that have self-answers.
Personally I don't really want to link to the other site if I can avoid it, so I'd probably prefer my second option. But do others have suggestions/best practices from other sites here?
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Some of our early communities did bulk imports (with varying rules), and I and many others have now concluded that this was a mistake. That's my fault, and I'm sorry about it. Targeted imports can still work maybe, but if something was all yours to begin with, or you can make it all yours here (for example by posting a new question that you have a good answer for), than I think it's much better to do that. Build this community; don't direct readers to Somewhere Else. Also, the scope here is probably different than over there, so you'd need to examine each candidate anyway.
Please do improve things that you bring over, where you can. You might have learned some additional things since you wrote what you did; can you make the versions here better? In addition to serving this community by providing high-quality content, you avoid the pure copies that can impede search-engine placement.
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