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How would you feel about a merger with Linux Systems?

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On main meta, someone suggested to look into the possibility to merge our Power Users community with the community for Linux Systems to increase activity. (see https://meta.codidact.com/posts/285122)

Just to test the waters: How would you all feel about this?

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Parallel question on Linux Systems? (3 comments)
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Since Power Users is essentially a super set of the Linux site, if a merger is to happen, it becomes natural to merge Linux into this site. I don't think anyone at Power Users would mind, *nix questions are already on-topic here. So it ought to be more important to let the Linux community decide if they want this, rather than us here.

I also think at least the following needs to be addressed before voting on a merger is meaningful:

  • How would the questions from Linux Systems get imported? Would it get its own *nix category? Is a separate category motivated and if so do we need categories for Windows, smart phones and so on too?

    I can swear I've had this very category discussion before somewhere, but I can't find it. I proposed separate categories like above but one valid argument against it was that the questions below each such category aren't really different enough not to be handled by tags. Another valid argument is that too many categories would clutter down the site needlessly.

    This ought to be discussed in a separate post.

  • How to deal with tags? Can they be imported? Should they be imported? How detailed do they need to be overall? OS type, distro, version? All such OS-related tags would need to be dealt with in a consistent manner with a system agreed upon with community consensus. After that, a tag clean-up might be needed on both sites.

  • What happens with mods at Linux Systems? Do they become mods here? Do they want to become mods here?

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Monica Cellio‭ wrote almost 3 years ago

Each community has two mods, one of whom is a mod on both. As far as I'm concerned, if the communities merge, all of them can still be mods on the combined community if they want to be. Three isn't an unreasonable number of mods to have.