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What's the point of /c/economics? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

Are you interested in economics?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

What about the economics-related news posts? How would they fit in?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks 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