A few observations about this community:

  • Most posts are economics-related news posts
  • not many (recent) posts about actual economics (though I haven’t read many of the news posts, I’m guessing most don’t go into much depth on the economic implications)
  • No description in the sidebar
  • No mods

I’d be pretty keen on a more theoretical economics community. Would it make sense to have a separate economic_theory community? Or would it be better to make a separate economic_news community?

Does anyone want to mod this community? Perhaps @[email protected] or @[email protected] , since you two post a lot?

  • cm0002@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Ive been cross-posting from .ml comms to the nearest non-.ml comms as part of ongoing boycotting efforts of the .ml instance

    This comm is the one I have designated for the .ml version of economics, if it’s unmodded, id be happy to take over in furtherance of that goal, but I don’t have a specific economics interest

  • remotelove
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    1 month ago

    I can jump in as a mod if needed. I am the quiet mod type, but can quickly mitigate any issues that pop up. Was a mod of a couple large subs on Reddit and exist as a mod on 196 to help mitigate larger issues when they happen. For the most part, I don’t deal with user to user issues since voting can rectify those problems.

  • DearOldGrandma@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I think this community would serve well as a general community for economics, with pinned discussions for theory, policy, trends, etc. I think that would provide a lot of meaningful engagement and prevent a lot of posts boiling down to redundant or biased comments. I see too many economic discussions on Lemmy as a whole that don’t focus enough on data and the context around it, or that quickly devolve into just policy.