We have been through this dozens and dozens of times. The topicality of this site is brutally clear. Let's take a look.

If you're not signed in and go to the front page you see this:

![Front Page Graphic][1]

OK, fair enough.

Still, some people may miss that. I understand how that could happen. Next, they click "Ask a Question". What are they presented with there?

(I'll split this one up)

![AQ Number 1][2]

Great - they read again that this is for professionals and that if they're not in that category, they'll have better luck at SU.

What's next?

![AQ Number 2][3]

OK, this is some advice many people would do well to take.

Next:

![AQ Number 3][4]

Ooh, this is a doozy. Lots of great information here on how a potential question asker can ask a good question.

And finally, a little causal contract with the asker:

![AW Number 4][5]

So by the time they ask a question, they've agreed that they have read and will consider the all of the above information when formulating a question.

[AND THEN THEY CONTINUE TO ASK HOW TO SAVE A FILE IN THEIR @%(@(%!$ TEXT EDITOR!][6] (linked to a screenshot of the now-deleted question you linked to above)

That person? Their question should not get migrated. No way.

On the other hand, if an end user comes here and asks a well-formulated question, yah, it should absolutely be migrated.

I honestly don't know how we can "help amateurs get their way to SU / Unix SE" more than we already are. If they make it as far as asking an OT question here, they have **already** shown that they couldn't care less about the community they're asking in, the people that will be answering the question, nor the greater SE goal of building a large, well-organized database of excellent questions and excellent answers.

> My suggestion were to improve mechanisms to help them to find their
> way to the correct site.

What would those suggestions be?


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