Feature requests: allow people with a proven track record to move questions to the appropriate forum, leaving a ghost/alias behind. Help the asker without hiding their question from them.

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osanseviero · Answer

What you need to do is: 
1. Report abuse asking to move question
2. Wait

Sometimes there are not enough mods online to do that (and normal mods cannot do that-they should be able to do that) buy I am sure admins can.

anonymous · Answer

I don't think anyone can move question by leaving ghost/alias, because it's just not implemented. If you report mods can just explain that it's bad to post in wrong group or give warning/suspend if it's repeating

farmdawgnation · Answer

Tomas.A is right, we don't currently allow anyone to move questions and we don't have any type of redirect mechanism in place. All we can do is ask the user to repost in the correct area and delete the offending post.

We've been discussing this idea as a team. We have some concerns about what should happen from a User Experience standpoint if a question gets moved to a group that you're not a member of. Of course, there are some related technical issues as well that will need to be ironed out.

anonymous · Answer

I run into this online with my classes - i'm pretty adamant about students posting all discussions/questions to the discussion forum, and only their homework to the assignments forum (i.e. turn it in, nothing else). Inevitably they end up asking question on the turn-in forum, so I debate reprimanding them there, moving it and reprimanding them on the discussion forum, or deleting it. 

A clean solution is to move it to where it belongs, and provide a deep link to it (and any follow ups to it). If they are not in that group, they probably should be and it should prompt them to join, or join them automatically. the link to it is necessary so they don't wonder where the thread went. An alternative to that is a placeholder that just says "this post was in the wrong place and was moved to such and such" or something like that. Or a similar message in their inbox. The advantage to a public message is it lets everyone know that this is happening, and hopefully that they should be more careful.