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The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.

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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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Generic response to Homework Questions

I thought I'd post my blurb on responding to homework questions which violate site policy. If you see any, just post this as a comment, usually the user will edit their question. Hi, Welcome to E …
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Econ.SE Potential Moderator Election -- Community Interest Check

Maarten Punt asked about some of the non-monetary costs and benefits of being a mod on this site. For myself I've noticed the following: Costs You need to spend some time reviewing flags (most of the …
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New Econ.SE discord server

In a recent post about getting mods attention off site other than flags and I created a discord server. The permanant link is: https://discord.gg/Q8TNQbf Feel free to tag me to let me know you're in …
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Creation of a Econ-Overflow Tag?

I've been thinking of creating a Tag exclusively for research based questions as a tool to signal expert questions with the creation of a econ-overflow tag. A tag is important because for some users …
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Policy on promoting personal projects

I just wanted to make a post regarding this posts that include personal projects and articles and would like some sort of consensus from the community (if there isn't one already). As a general rule I …
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I see we're getting trolled about economists being "always wrong"

the user's account has been destroyed as after reviewing the account i felt that most of the content contributed by the user was not positive or beneficial for the site. Additionally, though its not a …
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Misbehaviour by moderators

I did not comment on your post, but It was unclear what the question was and the context of inclusion of the article you found. It currently seems like a promotion of another websites content which th …
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Who are PhDs and PhD candidates on this site?

Im an Econ PhD candidate. My research interests are in consumer behaviour and demand system estimation. I envision econ overflow being a much more demanding site source wise where people can post re …
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Are Questions regarding Marxism and communism on topic?

We've been getting alot of questions regarding marxist schools of thought. If these questions were regarding the mathematics and empirics that exists in some neomarxian models such as the Feldman M …
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Homework questions with effort by someone other than the poster

Strictly speaking based on our current policy we just require that effort be typed up and marked down properly. The gains that come with searchability should follow.
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Update to Homework Policy 2018

As a follow up to the post made by my fellow moderator ubiquitous Homework questions with scans of notes/exam papers An additional stanza will be added to our site's homework policy. however some deta …
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Homework questions with scans of notes/exam papers

As suggested by denesp previously in a flag. I suggest that we modify our homework policy to be that the question must be copied down in a markdown form. If our site's objective is to help make infor …
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6 Visitors to Econ.SE daily?

A strange statistic on the site activity is being posted. Why is this the case? On the main site:
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Economics.SE: A call for papers

In an attempt to put together something to represent the site I'd like to propose putting together a collection of working papers and articles written by regular contributors of the site. I'd like t …

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