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The search engines see imported posts as duplicate content, and penalize us accordingly.  Scientific-speculation.codidact.com is essentially black-listed, and some of that even seems to be spilling over to elsewhere in codidact.com.

It's time to get rid of this stuff.  Let's not get caught in the <i>sunk cost fallacy</i>.

Here is how I suggest we go about it:<ol>

<li>Blow away all imported answers.

<li>Blow away all imported questions with no answers.  (Imported answers were already removed in step 1).

<li>The remaining imported content are questions but with answers created here.  These are likely very few in number.  Move these questions to a new temporary "Imported" category.

<li>Give the users here some time (Two weeks? A month?) to look over the Imported category.  If a user wants to "keep" any imported questions, they have to re-ask it natively here <i>in their own words</i>.  Do not copy the question, but re-write it from the concept.  Try to make it better than the original.  The result must be written so that no attribution to elsewhere is required.

<li>After a suitable time, blow away the Imported category.

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