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Should an improvement suggestion moved to chat be re-posted?
Comments should request a clarification or suggest an improvement to a question or answer.
Comments with other purposes can be moved to chat.
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2024: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we bid farewell to the year that's concluded and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of ...
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Ads test beginning week of January 13th, 2025
We’ve been exploring the concept of using open auction to manage advertising on some Stack Exchange sites. Under this model, advertisers (who have been organized into categories based on their ...
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10th Anniversary of Economics SE!
Later this month, Economics SE turns 10 years old. Congratulations on asking, answering, voting, and building this community for a whole decade!
Whenever a Stack Exchange site turns 10 we like to ...
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What are the economic arguments against giant Lottery Jackpot?
How can I improve What are the economic arguments against giant Lottery Jackpot? please? I just shortened it, to hone in on my question.
Original
What are OTHER shortcomings of walloping jackpots, ...
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Would this Q about whether poverty causes crime be on-topic here?
https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/89120/crime-and-poverty-correlation-or-causation
At least one of the papers I found while looking at that was in some journal of economic history, although ...
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What to do with a seemingly AI-generated answer?
This newly added answer to a 5-year-old question came up in the Late Answers queue for review. Its format and language look suspiciously ChatGPT-like (see details below). What should we do in such ...
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Should questions that include the word 'should' be closed
Should questions that include the word 'should', implying the existence of a commonly understood goal be closed?
I.e. "should the government help poor people?"
An example where 'should' does ...
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Closing the trickle-down question
So I voted to close the trickle-down question, here is why I think you should too and why I think we should not reopen it.
I had no problem with the original question.
I mostly enjoyed 1muflon1's ...
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Comment = vote to off-topic
I wrote
Hi! This question is about an economic issue, but not the academic discipline of economics, and as such it is off-topic here.
under a question as a comment, then went to vote to close it as ...
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Tag merge: game and game-theory
I cannot concieve of a use of game that does not fall under game-theory. Please merge the two or delete the former.
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2023: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here might be ...
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SE sites are now allowed to set banner with their official AI generated content policy, is this community interested in such banner?
SE recently created an option for individual SE site to have banner that highlights the site's policy on AI generated answers.
Since AI generated answers can lead to people using them as a content ...
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Is Economics S.E. the good place to ask questions about European Operational Programs (ERDF, ESF)? Their economical objectives, indicators, etc
I would to ask some general questions, over the time, about European Programs: European Regional Development Fund, European Social Forum.
Questions about their economical objectives, how to interpret ...
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Editing other people's incorrect answers to make their incorrect point more obvious
Obviously one should not vandalize answers or make them worse, but what if an answer is incorrect and somewhat long or complicated?
A specific answer made some claims that are incorrect if we apply ...
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Merge these 9 tags on Finance + Stock Market?
markets is a hypernym for efficient-markets + financial-markets + stock-market. Other synonymous tags are ―
asset-pricing
finance
financial-economics
investment
trading
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Is it term paper / thesis season or something?
I've noticed we are getting a lot of questions recently on diff-in-diff from new users.
I assume a lot of these are for some basic undergrad student term papers or final theses, but am curious what ...
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chatGPT regulation & content mills
Should the site have any policy w.r.t. chatGPT and similar language prediction tools?
Are chatGPT written questions acceptable?
Are chatGPT written answers acceptable?
Are questions asking for an ...
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2022: 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 preceding calendar year.
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Economics SE vs Quant SE?
Probably asked before but anyhoo thought of this from that: English SE vs ELL SE?
Might I break any (site-specific) rule for asking questions here instead of Quant SE? Sure I could get better answers ...
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The "elasticity of substitution" tag is misspelled
The tag for "elasticity of substitution" is currently spelled "elasticity-of-substituion". It would be great if a moderator could please rename that tag to insert the missing "...
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Should we reduce the number of votes required to close from 5 to 3 close votes?
Economics.SE is relatively small stack with few high rep users. This creates problem as it often takes quite long for questions that do not fit or are low quality to get closed. This seems to be ...
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How to get access to my own post?
I posted a question about Ramsey Optimal Taxation a day ago. Since I didn't have an account back then, I have lost access to the question. Here's the link to the question: Ramsey Optimal Tax.
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Why did my question about opportunity cost get downvoted?
I, a new user to this site and a complete beginner in economics, asked this question: What is opportunity cost really?
In my humble opinion, this a very logical question. I quickly received two ...
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No more question closures on a booming economics.SE
If you look at the history of the close review queue, you might notice that after 2022 Apr 1, all votes in that queue were made by myself, another user and a mod. A question needs 5 non-mod votes to ...
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Is advertising a post on a different SE crossposting
Suppose I post a question whose body consists of a link to a math.SE question and then I proceed to ask "I want to know what economists think about this?"
Is this crossposting? Technically ...
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Where should the "MathJax help" link (on the Editing Help page for our community) point to?
One of the community managers at Stack Exchange has pointed out that in the editing-help page for our site, which you can find by clicking here, there is a section on LaTeX, which at the bottom has a ...
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Are questions pertaining to investing in a specific country admissible?
Suppose that I would like to invest in Ruritania. Suppose further that I am interested in learning about the risks involved — physical, sociological, regulatory, legal, etc — and that I do not trust ...
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Is it allowed to ask about which sources are reliable to get certain data?
In my case, I'm doing a research about cost of living in different countries.
But data I find is not consistent, different web pages I find give different measurements for that data.
So, I think it's ...
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MathJax rendering Issue
In my answer here, the array environment is not rendered correctly in the output, but correctly in the editing interface.
Editing interface:
Output:
It turns out ...
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