What's the point of /c/economics?

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨naught101@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨economics@lemmy.world⁩

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 @MicroWave@lemmy.world or @cm0002@lemmy.world , since you two post a lot?

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cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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

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EditsHisComments@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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- naught101@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  What about the economics-related news posts? How would they fit in?
  
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remotelove@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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- naught101@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Are you interested in economics?
  
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