A lot of questions get asked on Meta about declined moderator flags. I don't really want to be one of "those people" who asks about every little possible mistake, but I am a little curious about this particular instance.
The question in discussion is here: Creating an append function in Racket
To me, this perfectly fits the bill for migration to Code Review.
- This is a good, well-described, well-written question.
- The code provided in the question already works, and the OP is just asking for specific improvements.†
I flagged for a request for migration, but (a number of days later) the flag was declined. There are a few explanations I could come up with for this.
- The question could have been misinterpreted as the OP asking to finish broken code. That wasn't the case, but it isn't perfectly clear.
- Though the question was originally flagged when it had no answers, a short time after I flagged it, an answer was posted and subsequently accepted.
- Perhaps the most compelling reason—while this question would fit very nicely on Code Review, it isn't necessarily off-topic on Stack Overflow.
In the event that the flag was declined due to one of the first two reasons, that would seem like a simple mistake. It happens.
On the other hand, it seems more likely to me that the third possibility is correct. This raises the question: should I ever request migration to a site that might be a "better fit" if the question is on-topic on SO? I don't think it could hurt, but I'd understand if that were the policy.
†(I guess one could argue that the "improvements" involve too much new code rather than a review of existing code, but I've personally answered questions on CR that involved much more rewriting.)
