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I was surprised that this question was closed as "not about programming," even though I was the second user to vote to migrate it to Cross Validated—breaking the tie. Regardless of which reason is appropriate, I expected the question to be migrated due to the majority rule. Why wasn’t that the outcome?

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    This looks like very poor question overall. Even if it is not about programming, it is still not suitable question for migration. See Don't. Migrate. Crap.
    – Dalija Prasnikar Mod
    Commented Apr 17 at 11:01

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Migrations are exempt from the normal majority rules and need to be unanimous to take effect. See the FAQ on Meta

On most sites, the minimum threshold is a majority of all close votes (3 on sites requiring five votes to close questions, 2 on sites requiring three votes to close questions, or a single vote on sites which only require one vote to close a question). However, on Stack Overflow, a unanimous consensus of all three close voters is required.

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