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Timothy Chow
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How often are questions "successfully" migrated to MSE?

I rarely use MSE and so I don't have a good feel for what it's like overall. I was slightly surprised by a recent comment by Christian Remling which characterizes MSE as a "homework factory with noise/content ratio $\approx \infty$" that is no longer even a "moderately reasonable site." Seeing this comment made me wonder whether the common practice on MO of suggesting that a question be migrated to MSE needs to be re-thought. If MSE is a complete mess of a site (I'm not sure it is, but let's suppose for the sake of argument that it is), then directing people to it seems like a bad practice.

I would be somewhat reassured if someone could show me some statistics, demonstrating that a high percentage of questions that are migrated from MO to MSE receive answers that are subsequently accepted by the person asking the question. Are there any such statistics available?

Timothy Chow
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