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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.
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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.
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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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Site icon is an empty balloon in Mac browsers
On Safari and Chrome on Mac OS X, the site icon is an empty balloon - the letters 'EC' are not visible. When disabling a CSS rule, the bug disappears:
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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.
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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?"
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We're Graduating out of Beta Status!
We're coming up on the 7th anniversary of our fledgling site being in beta status. As of this post, we've been around for 2553 days. Phew!
It is our pleasure to report from the moderator team that we ...
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Who are PhDs and PhD candidates on this site?
just wondering who are Econ Phds or Econ PhD students on the site. Obviously knowing anyone can claim anything. I just want to know if anyone here is an Econ PhD or Econ PhD student can you post below ...
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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
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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.
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