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Post Removal and Rules Reminder
Recently, we had an answer on a particularly popular question that had a lot of answers from laypeople. The top answer argued that the wage gap outright did not exist. I saw a lot of flags over it ...
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Wikipedia Referencing and Content Rules - Is this time for me?
I've received my share of policing by automated rules and manual moderation in these two interactions:
Do actively managed ETFs help the economy in any way, and if so, how?
What happens if commercial ...
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Two tags for the United States
At the moment, Economics SE has tags usa and united-states. I propose that they be merged.
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All Generic Responses
Per request from community all generic responses to questions and answers were also put in this one thread (with links to original posts) so users can find all generic community responses in one ...
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Proposal to make the site more useful for experts (PhDs, academics, professionals)
Problem Description
There aren't enough experts and expert-level questions on the site.
A long-standing criticism of this site is that there are too many non-expert level questions. This makes the ...
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Generic Response to Unsourced Answers
This generic response should be used for answers that talk about statistics, research or results that are not common knowledge in economics (i.e. something that a person with undergraduate degree in ...
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Generic Response to Questions Without Evidence of Prior Search Effort
If the user asks question that shows no evidence of prior search/research effort you might use the following generic response (special thanks to Mark C. Wallace - mod from History.SE for allowing us ...
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Current tag synonym candidates
I suggest adopting the following system for handling tags that could be made synonyms. The system has worked very well on Cross Validated: see here.
Please post your tag synonym suggestions as new ...
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What can we learn from other SE sites?
I recently had to search some historical facts and used History Stack Exchange. I noticed that community there requires people to provide evidence of attempt at finding solution even to non-homework ...
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2020: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network ...
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Formatting on “What topics can I ask about here?” is off
The Help Center article "What topics can I ask about here?" has some formatting issues:
There's an '#On-topic' halfway the page which is supposed to be a header (like Off-Topic above):
The ...
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What would be a good place to ask this soft question?
I recently read that the Polish mathematician Stanislas Ulam once challenged one of the great names in twentieth-century economics, Paul Samuelson, to "name me one proposition in all of the ...
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Which stack exchange should I ask questions about the difference between income brackets for specific jobs?
Which stack exchange should I ask questions about the difference between income brackets for specific jobs?
Specifically, Doctor pay vs CEO pay.
I don't think it should be Personal finance since it's ...
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How can a US President deliberately, but legally, crash the US stock markets?
Sorry!!!! please don't keep downvoting me. i just want to prepare for the worst!
Why's How can a US President deliberately, but legally, crash the US stock markets? off topic? I see three upvotes for
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Tag for perfect substitutes
It is really correct that there is no tag for perfect substitues?
There is one for complements.
Can someone perhaps create it?
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