<p>I have been flagging questions that are cross-posted.  Usually this leads to the question being closed; sometimes, my flag is marked helpful but no action is taken and the question is left open.  Can I get some clarity on the Cross Validated position on this?</p>
<p>It looks like I've flagged 15 cross-posts in 2020.  Of them, about 11 have been closed after being flagged, and 4 have not.  Here are the 4 that remain open:</p>
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<li><p><a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/q/502373/2921">Classify tweets per topic</a> - simultaneously cross-posted on 5 SE sites (word-for-word identical; no cross-linking); I flagged, but it hasn't been closed.</p>
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<li><p><a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/q/488793/2921">Model of dithered lattice quantization error/noise</a> - simultaneously cross-posted on one other SE site (word-for-word identical; cross-linked); I flagged twice, but it hasn't been closed.</p>
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<li><p><a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/q/489205/2921">Comparing a large/general CNN to a smaller more specialized one?</a> - simultaneously cross-posted on one other SE site (word-for-word identical; no cross-linking; answered on the other site); I flagged, but it hasn't been closed.</p>
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<li><p><a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/q/489249/2921">the probability of random subset</a> - cross-posted on one other SE site (word-for-word identical, no cross-linking; slight differences in typesetting; answered on the other site; also re-posted here on Stats.SE a second time, and answered that second time); I flagged, but it hasn't been closed.</p>
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<p>I'm not sure how to interpret the differing responses.  Do the moderators want cross-posted questions to be flagged?  Do you want me to stop flagging them?  Is this a difference in the views of different moderators?  Is this an oversight?  Should I be re-flagging if they are't closed on my first attempt, on the theory that perhaps my custom text was not sufficiently clear?</p>
<p>Have I misunderstood some aspect of Cross Validated's policy?  The <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/64069/160917">SE-wide default policy is that cross-posting is discouraged or prohibited</a> (and to the extent that there is any wiggle room, it seems pretty clear that cross-posting word-for-word identical questions is not the way to go about it).  The policies that I can find articulated on this meta seem similar: see, e.g., <a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/q/896/2921">1</a>, <a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1194/2921">2</a>, <a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1948/2921">3</a>, <a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4473/2921">4</a>, <a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2131/2921">5</a>.  My preference and request would be for moderators to close cross-posted questions when flagged, but if moderators are aware of cases or criteria where they don't plan to do that, it'd be helpful to know that, if possible, so I don't waste your time or my time raising unwanted flags.</p>
