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Removing the beta label from Economics.SE
Becoming a full fledged site I think is deserving since we have a solid base of experts and seem to be currently the only real site out there which has intelligent posts regarding economic theory.
I ...
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Add sources header thing
That's a so-called post notice, and it's available on all sites in the network. The 'problem' is, only ♦ moderators can add it:
I'm a moderator on three other sites in the network and regularly apply ...
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Does StackExchange screen suspicious voting behavior?
So, to directly answer the question: Yes, SE does monitor voting algorithmically, but this is not the kind of behaviour that gets picked up (the system is more targeted at users trying to inflate ...
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Why don't we indicate "offtopic" for offtopic questions?
The homework justification didn't replace anything else that was there before. But we supplement it with (up to two) new custom off topic reasons (just as we created the homework one).
When there is ...
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Policy on posting surveys to the site?
I would say no. If allowed, survey questions would probably outnumber other types of questions.
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Statistics for posts from unregistered versus registered accounts
Please let me share stats on registered and unregistered users' posts for the last 60 days. Below one can see almost the same data as by links in the question. I defined a "bad" post as one ...
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Proposal for Custom Off-Topic Close Reason
Edit 13 November 2015:
I have now approved this and we should be able to start applying the new close reason.
Original post
Thanks, I didn't realise that we had the capacity to add such reasons. I ...
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Update of Help Center > Asking
I've fixed it. I removed the sentence and link. Thanks!
Accounting: Accounting is a separate discipline, and there is no StackExchange site dedicated to that matter yet.
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Policy on posting surveys to the site?
As denesp said, in general no. But if you did want to enquire further, then send an email to [email protected] and ask the staff.
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Removing the beta label from Economics.SE
As this comment and Catija's answer over at the Latin site denote, the future of sites in beta such as Economics is in flux for the time being — as Catija did back in May on Latin, I'll ask for your ...
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Dark Mode for Economics.SE
We don't have plans of rolling out Dark Mode to the rest of the network at this time, and can't roll it out on a per-site basis. As such, I'm status-declined'ing this request.
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Tag for perfect substitutes
Yes, there was no tag before. New tags are usually created by high rep users when they fit some question. There might be some topics that nobody bothered to ask or they might get tagged with just ...
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Banning Unregistered Users
Originally I was quite warm to this idea, as expressed in my comments, but after doing research on this issue I am not sure if it will help.
According to the discussion on this software engineering ...
1muflon1Mod
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Increase Reputation Requirements for Tag Creation
The reputation required for creating tags is low at 125 reputation points because a tag could always be edited with a few simple clicks.
Raising the barrier would not help so much because those who ...
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