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Allow a question to exist in multiple communities.

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Occasionally, a post is a brilliant fit for multiple communities. Questions at Linux and Power Users are the most pertinent example, ^[1] but the decision to not create one for AOSP is, too. ^[2]

Reddit remediates this with cross-posting, which applies other communities' topics as tags to a post that fundamentally lives within one of them. This is a workaround at best, but the current status quo of having posts be of a hierarchical nature is worse.

Meta's Instagram and Facebook recently implemented a solution to an equivalent problem of theirs, by allowing an post to have been posted by multiple accounts, treating none as the ultimate owner. Although, in this case, QPixel's problem isn't ownership, the problem of organisation is identical.

Treating the community designations like tags might mean a reduction in duplicate questions.

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Mr. Beedell, Roke Julian Lockhart (RJLB)‭

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trichoplax‭ wrote 11 months ago

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There was a previous suggestion of using something like tags to allow a question to be in more than one community, in Questions Displaying in more than one community?

There is some discussion in comments there, including a link to another related discussion How to refer members of community B to a question in community A which suits both communities?, which has an answer that seems very relevant to your question.

Mr. Beedell, Roke Julian Lockhart (RJLB)‭ wrote 11 months ago · edited 11 months ago

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trichoplax‭, thanks. Certainly, posts/283073/history#1 is relevant, ¹ whereas posts/283096/history#1 proposes too specific of an implementation to be very actionable:

Communities remain focused this way but certain grey zone questions could then show up in 2 or more locations (if applicable).

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