<p><a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/196104/is-it-possible-to-speed-up-migration?noredirect=1#comment618909_196104">Evidently</a>, when we vote to close a question as off-topic and appropriate for Stack Overflow, the thread will not actually be migrated unless we select:  </p>

<pre><code>close
 -&gt; off-topic because…
     -&gt; This question belongs on another site in the Stack Exchange network
         -&gt; belongs on stackoverflow.com
</code></pre>

<p>Put differently, if we select:  </p>

<pre><code>close
 -&gt; Questions about programming are off-topic here unless they involve statistical 
    analysis in some fashion, but they can be asked on Stack Overflow. 
</code></pre>

<p>the question will simply go [on hold] for a period of time, and eventually be closed automatically.  I did not realize this, and I gather <a href="https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6018/confusing-closing-off-topic-dialog">it was an issue on programmers.SE as well</a>.  Thus, I wonder if others were also using the latter option because it is more salient, rather than because they wanted to close the question <strong><em>without</em></strong> it being migrated.  </p>

<p>I'm wondering if we can edit the options that appear when you vote to close to make this clearer.  I don't have a specific suggestion on how to do that; I'm open to ideas that people have and I'm not even sure what options are possible.  I don't want to prevent people from being able to close without migrating if that's their intention, but I don't want posters to end up in limbo due to confusing design.  </p>

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<p><em>Side question</em>:  Can <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/69065/frequency-table-comparison-using-r">this thread</a> be migrated?  </p>
