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The title is a pun on "No taxation without representation!" a famous slogan referring to an authoritative imperial power.

I'm curious - for someone who is active here, why not just ask me if I'd like to have the question migrated before suddenly and anonymously doing it to me while I'm asleep? That would give me time to rewrite the language of question to make it suitable for another stackexchange.

I have a lot of first hand experience - each stackexchange seems to have a substantially different collective personality and attitude. I've found I have to really tailor the language to each one if I want to get a good response.

Next time, why not ask first please?

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@sandwich OK thanks - that's good! Is it after one year you can no longer "see" the question in your own list of deleted questions? There's something that happens after one year. (like Rooney Mara's character in The Social Network says, the internet is written in ink. – uhoh May 17 at 1:32
    
It seems that really old low quality stuff may in fact be removed from the site. Don't know how that factors in to anything, but... – PearsonArtPhoto♦ May 17 at 2:05
    
@uhoh For what it's worth, I intentionally avoided migrating it myself. I don't think migration is generally a disservice. I do agree there are situations where migration is uncomfortable for the OP. I was not happy when a question that I answered on History got migrated to Sports (where I don't care to contribute to the community), but I understood it was part of the process. – called2voyage♦ May 17 at 13:53
    
@called2voyage it's no problem, migration is a very good thing - the idea is always to get the question to a place where it has a better chance of getting an answer. I chose a humorous title to keep the mood light. A lot of times new users need this done for them because they are not very familiar with the SE ecosystem. I guess I'm at that awkward stage where I feel like saying "I can do it myself", weather I actually can or not. It is a possible improvement to SE - an option to invite the user to have their question migrated, but it adds complexity. – uhoh May 17 at 14:09
    
@uhoh Suggest it on meta.stackexchange.com. – called2voyage♦ May 17 at 14:11
    
@called2voyage I'm too shy - being at that awkward stage and all... – uhoh May 17 at 14:33
    
@uhoh I think you're familiar enough with the community you could do well. It would be good for you to start to branch out to addressing meta issues with SE. I feel like you really have something to say here. You'll probably get a number of upvotes, and even if no changes come from it you'll probably learn from the discussion. – called2voyage♦ May 17 at 14:37
    
@called2voyage I did try once in stackoverflow and lived to tell the tale... added this answer – uhoh May 17 at 14:42
    
Personally, I think migration, if done correctly, is a good thing. Adding a why not ask first hoop through which the moderators have to jump before migrating a question would mean there would be no migration. – David Hammen May 23 at 1:22
    
@DavidHammen again you misrepresent what I said. I'm musing about the possibility of adding the option to invite to migrate for people like me who have "been around the block" a few times. Or even just plain asking them. I did not mention anything about removing the current options, which are generally used with great care and positive outcome! – uhoh May 23 at 3:10
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Asking whether Mercury's orbit will be stable for the next five billion years is a bad question (an incredibly bad question!) for this site because of the huge time frame. On the other hand, it is a good question that is on-topic at astronomy SE. Migrating that question there was a service to the stackexchange community and to you. You should not have deleted it.

I act as a moderator at another web site. I am paid 1000 times what the moderators at this site are paid. Curiously, the moderators of this site are also paid 1000 times what I am paid. In other words, our pay is zero, zip, nada, null.

Closing or deleting a question is much easier than is migrating it. Closing takes but one click. Deletion takes but a few clicks. Migration requires thinking (it's not good to migrate what would still be a bad question to some other site), typing, and then some clicks. Add a "Do you want this question migrated?" delay and the moderators will choose "close" or "delete", but never "migrate."

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I made the title humorous and added the " :) " to make it clear. You missed pretty much every thing I said - and do me a disservice by trying to say I was upset! Just for example: "it's no problem, migration is a very good thing - the idea is always to get the question to a place where it has a better chance of getting an answer. I chose a humorous title to keep the mood light... It is a possible improvement to SE - an option to invite the user to have their question migrated..." – uhoh May 22 at 23:43
    
Answer completely rewritten. – David Hammen May 23 at 1:03

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