Is it OK to open issues on behalf of people here?

[Trott]

I'm thinking that for issues like this or this, I'd like to:

• Open an issue in the help repo for the user.
• @ mention the user in the help repo issue so they get notifications on the issue.
• Reply in the original issue that the question is now in this repo and that this is where general help questions should go.
• Probably close the original issue after providing the link to the corresponding help repo issue in the above step.

That will hopefully seed this repo with more questions and eliminate a small amount of clutter over in the main node repo. It's a small sample size, but it seems that people are not (for the most part) taking the suggestion to ask the question over here. I think opening the question for them and then directing them over here is more friendly than just trying to be more forceful in suggesting that they ask over here.

Thoughts?

EDIT: Potential downside is it may be annoying if something is opened here in error. Like, you think someone is asking a question about a bug in their code but they're reporting a bug in Node. I guess the question is whether the upside is bigger than the downside.

[Trott]

(Also, I think I'd like to be added to this WG, if there's no objection to my self-nomination.)