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How do we handle overlap?
When I use SO I see a load of questions that would be better asked on a spin-off site. Eg SQL questions that would be way better answered on DBA.se.
But SQL is a programming language and so fits on SO as well.
It's a situation that would only ever be resolved if any question on any site could be referenced and shown on any other site "simultaneously".
So a simple suggestion would be to allow posts to be sent to a different site where they would appear as native questions. Anyone clicking then would be taken to the originating site (but it'd be cool if they could appear in-situ, embedded in the target site)
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