There appears to be a spate of migrating questions to raspberrypi.stackexchange.com just because they mention Raspberry Pi.
A recent example is https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/42307/operating-landline-phone-via-mobile-phone
Why?
Do those who refer these even read the question?
Unless the question is something uniquely specific to the Pi it ends up being closed as "off topic".
It got migrated cause it mentioned RPI. That's all. By the same mod who migrates any question with Arduino or Cars in the question as well. Within minutes of being posted. With no one down voting or close voting. Single handedly. Even though we have a don't migrate to betas or don't migrate crap policy. Migration Guidelines Re: Arduinos
The only way for this to stop is if users and mods of those sites continue to complain.
See https://mechanics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1464/led-lights-question , Question migration anti-patterns: Skeptics SE, Post Moved to Rasberry Pi Site, Why was http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/182864/arduino-relay-shield migrated?, Another bad migration to Arduino for another examples.
Most notably, even another mod has point out these "knee jerk" migrations:
Yes, Nick tends to knee-jerk migrate any post that merely mentions Raspberry Pi or Arduino, without considering whether the question is really appropriate for the destination site.
shareeditflag edited Oct 12 '15 at 0:18 answered Oct 12 '15 at 0:13
Dave Tweed♦
I've basically been told to shut-up about it since apparently I'm the only one that cares on EE.
Yes it probably shouldn't have been migrated because Stack Exchange has a Don't migrate crap policy. I suspect PlasmaHH is right in a comment that is was migrated with the reasoning "It would get closed here, maybe it is well received over there, lets give it a second chance over there".
It probably should have just been closed here as an off-topic shopping question because it seems they were after an off-the-shelf solution, or as too broad if they intended to make something themselves because designing something from scratch would be a large undertaking.
Given that moderators can't be familiar with the norms of every site on the network I don't disagree with the decision to give migration a try, after all if the OPs question had just been outright closed here without any possibility of further answers that wouldn't have done them any favors.
Given that moderators can't be familiar with the norms of every site on the network Considering most migrations are to two or three sites, they should be. Or they should be speaking with the mods of the target site before migrating. Or you know, not abusing mod powers to remove questions they dislike.
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I think it got migrated because 'Makers' (Raspberry Pi, et. al.) and 'EEs' are two completely different gamuts. Like a sniper and a gunsmith - the sniper may be very good at changing scopes, magazines, and rounds, but they really have no business asking the gunsmith how to mod it to fire automatically.
Makers are users of technology, where as EE's are creators of technology. Some makers learn just enough to plug board A into board B without it blowing up (in one day), whereas EE's spend months, years of their lives designing boards A and B. Makers learn that an output cannot be connected to another output the hard and fast way, while the EE's that designed those outputs carefully favored high-speed, low impedance over circuit protection. In short, the EE's have dealt with (read: cried, pulled hair out over) the hundreds, thousands of nitty-gritty details, whereas the maker doesn't care about these at all. The OP clearly asks for a plug-and-play solution to a complex problem; so not wanting to put in any effort to understand it themselves, it was "swept under the rug." After a few dozen such questions, it becomes easy just to sweep anything with "R Pi" in it under the rug.
I think the answer to whether migrating this specific one was right or wrong, will depend on whom is asked. Of course the asker wants it answered, but the answerers don't want to be bothered. As a site rule though, it should not have been migrated. (It likely would have then received the standard barrage of "What have you tried so far?" and "We don't do homework here" kinds of comments, then closed as off-topic or shopping.)
Now I suppose it's possible to 'learn electronics' from the top-down, but there are two issues with this: 1. The Maker may not even care about the lower levels. If they do, then great, but they should research the lower levels first. 2. The EE definitely was not trained this way, and may insist everyone else learn the fundamentals first like they did. In either case, we are not a complete EE degree education institution here, and cannot be expected to answer such questions.
Dave Jones had a nice video about insisting makers learn the fundamentals so that they were not completely lost, however I can't find it now. It may have received too much flack and been removed. (Imagine that.)
This Question:
also got migrated out of EE into Arduino, despite it clearly being generic to a range of MCUs/platforms.
not surprisingly, they've put it on hold as off-topic. Why would it not belong in EE?
Migrating this question was actually not a bad idea. I remember it had received an answer or RPi, which I commented on. I'm no expert in VoIP so I can't tell whether it made much sense, but at least it looked like a reasonable suggestion. So the migration wasn't a total waste of everyone's time, at least until that answer got deleted.
The question is indeed too broad and could have been closed as such. But since it mentioned RPi, people here at EE.SE had to assume that it was answerable in RPi context. If I didn't know what RPi is, I would have assumed the same and decided to migrate it as well. You can't expect Electronics SE admins to know what RPi is capable of, to judge if RPi questions are answerable. Imagine tomorrow someone asks how to connect a camera to the RPi. For EE.SE, this question is way too broad, as there is a multitude of video interfaces and protocols. In RPi context, this is perfectly answerable, as RPi only has one compatible camera, with conveniently soldered compatible connector. Would you prefer such questions to be closed or migrated? Or should EE.SE admins keep track of every RPi accessory or Arduino "shield" to be able to judge?
