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Proposal to make the site more useful for experts (PhDs, academics, professionals)

Tag all beginner questions with beginner tag My proposed solution, copy-and-pasted from the question. Short description: Require that each question that isn't an "expert-level question" be ...
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Update Policy for Low-Quality Answers: Citations Required

Here is my proposed FAQ on answers, the text is based on mashup of ideas in and under the two other answers of HerK and Jmbejara, as well as putting them into appropriate FAQ format (i.e. this FAQ has ...
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Update Policy for Low-Quality Answers: Citations Required

Definitions The following definitions of terms are adapted from here: A source is reputable if its publisher or author(s) have the reputation within the economics profession for maintaining high ...
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Proposal to make the site more useful for experts (PhDs, academics, professionals)

Tag all beginner questions with nonexpert tag Short description: Require that each question that isn't an "expert-level question" be tagged as a nonexpert question. Expert-level questions ...
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Proposal to make the site more useful for experts (PhDs, academics, professionals)

I support the idea of using tagging as a low-stakes way to make the site more useful for experts. I wasn't previously aware of the facility for a user to have questions with selected tags greyed out ...
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Update Policy for Low-Quality Answers: Citations Required

The “Back It Up” Principle on Economics.SE Policy Specifics Policy Statement: Each answer of Economics.SE must be backed up in some way, or it is subject to deletion. Answers that are 3 days old and ...
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Proposal to make the site more useful for experts (PhDs, academics, professionals)

I like the idea, and it seem to be well received on the net basis, so I think we should move forward in this direction, but at the same time it needs some modifying. For better or worse, current ...
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