Mods I know y'all are doing your best but I think Kirk needs to either hire more mods or up the autodeletion words (even if it means some good posts/threads get bod deleted).
The amount of stuff I've seen in the past few days is unbearable. And I'm not a lefty.
I don't perceive this problem.
Right now of the 40 threads I see in the first page, ~20 directly deal with an academic economist, an economics department/program, or economics papers. ~10 are generic policy discussions. ~10 are trollish/personal life/politics discussions and none of them are particularly offensive.
At worst, your eyes skip over 10 useless threads for every 30 useful threads you find. That's maybe 10 seconds wasted out of every 2 hours of browsing this forum. Is it really that bad?
Mods I know y'all are doing your best but I think Kirk needs to either hire more mods or up the autodeletion words (even if it means some good posts/threads get bod deleted).
The amount of stuff I've seen in the past few days is unbearable. And I'm not a lefty.I don't perceive this problem.
Right now of the 40 threads I see in the first page, ~20 directly deal with an academic economist, an economics department/program, or economics papers. ~10 are generic policy discussions. ~10 are trollish/personal life/politics discussions and none of them are particularly offensive.
At worst, your eyes skip over 10 useless threads for every 30 useful threads you find. That's maybe 10 seconds wasted out of every 2 hours of browsing this forum. Is it really that bad?
Not the op but I would say those numbers are quite far from the historical average. Most days it is >1 trash/culture wars thread for every 1 useful thread. And that ratio goes way up on weekends. That is probably what the op was seeing.
Is its really that bad? Most days, yes it is.
Mods I know y'all are doing your best but I think Kirk needs to either hire more mods or up the autodeletion words (even if it means some good posts/threads get bod deleted).
The amount of stuff I've seen in the past few days is unbearable. And I'm not a lefty.I don't perceive this problem.
Right now of the 40 threads I see in the first page, ~20 directly deal with an academic economist, an economics department/program, or economics papers. ~10 are generic policy discussions. ~10 are trollish/personal life/politics discussions and none of them are particularly offensive.
At worst, your eyes skip over 10 useless threads for every 30 useful threads you find. That's maybe 10 seconds wasted out of every 2 hours of browsing this forum. Is it really that bad?Not the op but I would say those numbers are quite far from the historical average. Most days it is >1 trash/culture wars thread for every 1 useful thread. And that ratio goes way up on weekends. That is probably what the op was seeing.
Is its really that bad? Most days, yes it is.
The site isn't going to change. Kirk lost most of his mod a few years ago and then lied about it to the site. Majority of the threads are deleted by the bot with occasional help from 1-2 mods who did stick around.
Mods I know y'all are doing your best but I think Kirk needs to either hire more mods or up the autodeletion words (even if it means some good posts/threads get bod deleted).
The amount of stuff I've seen in the past few days is unbearable. And I'm not a lefty.I don't perceive this problem.
Right now of the 40 threads I see in the first page, ~20 directly deal with an academic economist, an economics department/program, or economics papers. ~10 are generic policy discussions. ~10 are trollish/personal life/politics discussions and none of them are particularly offensive.
At worst, your eyes skip over 10 useless threads for every 30 useful threads you find. That's maybe 10 seconds wasted out of every 2 hours of browsing this forum. Is it really that bad?Not the op but I would say those numbers are quite far from the historical average. Most days it is >1 trash/culture wars thread for every 1 useful thread. And that ratio goes way up on weekends. That is probably what the op was seeing.
Is its really that bad? Most days, yes it is.
JUST.DONT.CLICK.ON.THOSE.THREADS
JUST.DONT.CLICK.ON.THOSE.THREADSthey still clog up space and are mainly bait threads meant to get a reaction (often posted in the serious subforums, so filtering is useless).
You might as well accept that the undergrads own this place now. You will be a lot happier if you do.
Why was this one deleted?
https://www.econjobrumors.com/topic/blm-extorting-business-in-louisville
Economic impacts of extortion/corruption seem like very relevant issues for economic research.
I agree. There is a subset of economics research that studies the incentives and frictions related to organized crime. Unless the article linked in this thread is inaccurate or misleading, I can't see why it isn't relevant.
Why was this one deleted?
https://www.econjobrumors.com/topic/blm-extorting-business-in-louisville
Economic impacts of extortion/corruption seem like very relevant issues for economic research.I agree. There is a subset of economics research that studies the incentives and frictions related to organized crime. Unless the article linked in this thread is inaccurate or misleading, I can't see why it isn't relevant.
it was bot deleted. i glanced at it yesterday and of course nobody was discussing incentives or frictions related to organized crime
Why was this one deleted?
https://www.econjobrumors.com/topic/blm-extorting-business-in-louisville
Economic impacts of extortion/corruption seem like very relevant issues for economic research.I agree. There is a subset of economics research that studies the incentives and frictions related to organized crime. Unless the article linked in this thread is inaccurate or misleading, I can't see why it isn't relevant.
Yeah right. Like that's what most of the posts in the thread were about.