Unanswered Questions
73 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Everybody is asking you to vote - Economics.se is no different
Here are some data from site analytics, regarding the last twelve months:
Traffic holds and has recently picked up strongly to historic highs:
...but voting exhibits a clear downward trend ...
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Welcome to Economics.SE!
Welcome to Economics.SE, the free, community-driven, Questions and Answers site for economists.
This site is for Questions and answers and is not a forum. This means that there is a quite strict ...
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Moderators Pro Tem announcement
Throughout the beta, we need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we select a few members from each community ...
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Two years in Beta
This is how we enter our third year in beta:
..while traffic in the last one and a half month shows an almost trigonometric regularity:
In my point of view, and given the peculiarities of the ...
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Thanks for visiting - can you please also vote on the main site?
With four-thousands-rep delay I was granted access to "Site Analytics" (I am joking -most probably they weren't previously available for a nascent site like ours).
And they provide some raw data. What ...
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120 days in Beta - We're fighting it
and together with the 30-days , 60-days and 90-days numbers
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So many low-quality questions that are not homework per se
I suggest we either expand the "homework sans effort" close reason to cover more "low effort" and/or "completely clueless but opinionated" questions or create a new close reason to cover the latter ...
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Scientific Rigor
Everyone and their mothers seem to have an opinion on why minimum wages are good/bad, no matter what was asked in the question.
Clearly these kind of questions are attracting lots of visitors (2k ...
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Popular questions requiring answers
Some SE questions stand high in search engine rankings. This attracts traffic to SE, but such questions don't get attention from the community. Also, users from search engines typically don't vote. ...
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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 ...
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Do high reputation (500+) people know about the close questions review queue?
I notice that only four people have participated in the review queue for questions with pending close votes since I last voted. I last voted during the private beta, as I don't have enough reputation ...
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Proposals to merge macroeconomics tags
Does anyone have any problem with a merge-tags tag here so we can have things like macro and macroeconomics and ...
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Should we add automatic comment under homework questions?
Presently when user votes to close question as a duplicate an automatic comment is generated below with message "Does this answer your question?" with link provided. I think that having ...
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Econ SE open source Journal Proposal
Based on this suggestion, I'm taking initiative for proposing the first Economics.Se open source Journal.
The standards for entry are undetermined, but right now I just want to see if there is ...
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Site data Nov 2016 Oct 2017
Back in May-Aug 2015, we had weekly visits around $4,000$ per week, and declining votes that had reached below $200$ per week.
At September 2016 visits for the pat-12-months were at around $10,000$ ...
