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One possibility would be, when a question is migrated, to zero out the vote counts on all associated answers. In other words, the public vote counts would only aggregate votes cast after the migratio …

We had another debateable migration: Password security in databases - today still best practice? That question got migrated from StackOverflow. At the time it was migrated, it already had multiple a …

Yes, it looks like there is significant overlap. Several of our moderators have been commenting on that proposal, so I think they are aware. Personal opinion: it looks to me like there is significan …

I'm not convinced the question should be closed in the first place. I feel that there's something self-contradictory about saying ~"the question would lead to an entire book"~ but also ~"there's not …

Rory Alsop already explained the reason why. He told you: "what might be supported now might not be in 6 months; openssl.org is surely the right place to ask as they can notify when it changes". He …

This will depend upon the question. Make sure you choose a question that can be reasonably answered and has answers that can be backed up with facts or evidence, rather than one that is likely to rec …

Nope. I do not think this is a good direction. Usable security is an entire subfield of computer security. It's a rich area with many complexities, challenges, and techniques. There's no way a sin …

I noticed you got only a limited answer, so I'll share my reaction. I don't know. This doesn't sound related to Information Security, and I'm not sure you can expect people on this site to have rele …

What guidelines should moderators use, when deciding whether to migrate a question from another site over to here? What guidelines would we like moderators at other sites to follow, when deciding whe …

My view. My suggested criteria for migration is that the question is on-topic here, and will get better responses here, and has not already received a non-negligible number of answers or votes. I'd u …

What's the plan to ensure that highly-ranked answers are free of non-obvious security flaws? A good answer to a question should have two properties: it is helpful, and it is correct. Voting (the wis …

I posted the question Free tools for security static analysis of C or C++?, which asks "What are some free static analysis tools for detecting security problems in C or C++ code?". I also posted some …

The question "What is the best password storage scheme for end users to store high entropy, unique passwords which is failure resistant" has been locked by Shog9, with the comment: "This post has been …

I think the biggest problem with the question was not the minimum expected knowledge, but that the question was not sufficiently specific about what was being asked: the question was vague and over-br …

I agree it is helpful to include the title of the RFC as well as the RFC number, where possible. Failing that, it would help to include a link to the RFC. For example, instead of writing "see RFC 351 …