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*This is my personal opinion and not an official position of Codidact.*

I have sometimes re-asked questions when I asked them somewhere else  and didn't get the results I was looking for.  What I usually do in this case is:

- Wait a reasonable amount of time -- give the original question a chance to be answered.  This is fuzzy, I know, and depends in part on the "speed" of the other site.

- In my new question, account for anything I learned from the first question.  If I got no responses, I try to figure out why and improve my question -- ask a *better* question, taking into account the previous question's activity or inactivity.

- Say explicitly that I previously asked elsewhere, with a link.  This is for clear attribution and also so that it's easy to check back on the original question later.

I think an approach like this could work here.  We don't want to bar people from asking a question just because a previous attempt got no responses, but we want to identify some reasonable guardrails around multi-posting the same content.