I wasn’t the mod who closed it so don’t ask me but there was an absurd amount of racist comments in it at the end which I deleted (after it had been closed). I’ll reopen it though
Why is this thread closed? https://www.econjobrumors.com/topic/what-makes-a-phd-program-successful
Okay thanks
I wasn’t the mod who closed it so don’t ask me but there was an absurd amount of racist comments in it at the end which I deleted (after it had been closed). I’ll reopen it though
Why is this thread closed? https://www.econjobrumors.com/topic/what-makes-a-phd-program-successful
How is this even a forum with economists?
Any reference to chinese e-commerce giants generating 25 billion in sales are deleted. We are talking about threads about defining moments in economics and in markets with s**t tons of potential research and employment venues being deleted while the EJMR front page has this s**t:
Where do you buy condoms?
The Effect of Marihuana on IQ is pure OVB
Rename Europe to Aurope
How to dispose of dog?
Where college girls hunt for a sugar daddy?
No, chinese aren't going to take over the wolrd
^ oh, it's you again
MO: 1) start a trivial thread (in this case, consisting of a link to a news article about an online sales giant making a lot of money in one day, along with your insightful remarks: "Imagine generating 1 billion in sales in less than 2 minutes...); which then 2) gets deleted; followed by 3) you pretending that you are an economist who is interested in discussing economics; and finally 4) you complaining that there are some off-topic threads on the front page on a Sunday
btw, I didn't delete it, and don't care either way
Well then where is it?
BTW, what would I need to do to show that I'm an economist? Calculate a Fr is ch elasticity or something else that undergrads don't usually see?just post another thread on it
I'm not logged in, so can't restore it anyway
And how do I prove that I might be an economist? Do you want me to find some pooling and separating eq. on a tree (or a bush, whatever you like) with some nature making the first move? Maybe you want a balanced growth path calculation? Or do you want me to see if the LRM with binary dependent variables has heteroscedasticity? maybe we should talk about bus and cab colors and logit regression models...
Well then where is it?
BTW, what would I need to do to show that I'm an economist? Calculate a Fr is ch elasticity or something else that undergrads don't usually see?just post another thread on it
I'm not logged in, so can't restore it anywayAnd how do I prove that I might be an economist? Do you want me to find some pooling and separating eq. on a tree (or a bush, whatever you like) with some nature making the first move? Maybe you want a balanced growth path calculation? Or do you want me to see if the LRM with binary dependent variables has heteroscedasticity? maybe we should talk about bus and cab colors and logit regression models...
Oh, what a scholar!
Well then where is it?
BTW, what would I need to do to show that I'm an economist? Calculate a Fr is ch elasticity or something else that undergrads don't usually see?just post another thread on it
I'm not logged in, so can't restore it anywayAnd how do I prove that I might be an economist? Do you want me to find some pooling and separating eq. on a tree (or a bush, whatever you like) with some nature making the first move? Maybe you want a balanced growth path calculation? Or do you want me to see if the LRM with binary dependent variables has heteroscedasticity? maybe we should talk about bus and cab colors and logit regression models...
Methinks he doth protesteth too much.
I think most of your deletions are appropriate. But on this, I think you are unilaterally changing the long-standing rules of the forum. Trolling and encouraging academic dishonesty are no basis for deletion. "Want an easy top pub" is a classic thread that does both and there are other examples. You are wrong here.
I also think some of the Brexit deletions are heavy handed and that there was no need to delete harmless posts blowing off steam about how the market sucks.
The goal is to get rid of the political spammers. Not to make this place dull.
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Why was this thread deleted?https://www.econjobrumors.com/topic/have-you-ever-changed-a-regression-coefficient-in-a-paperToo much trolling and encouragement of academic dishonesty and potentially breaking the law. It won’t be reopened.
I think most of your deletions are appropriate. But on this, I think you are unilaterally changing the long-standing rules of the forum. Trolling and encouraging academic dishonesty are no basis for deletion. "Want an easy top pub" is a classic thread that does both and there are other examples. You are wrong here.
I also think some of the Brexit deletions are heavy handed and that there was no need to delete harmless posts blowing off steam about how the market sucks.
The goal is to get rid of the political spammers. Not to make this place dull.
-inactive modWhy was this thread deleted?https://www.econjobrumors.com/topic/have-you-ever-changed-a-regression-coefficient-in-a-paperToo much trolling and encouragement of academic dishonesty and potentially breaking the law. It won’t be reopened.
yeah, agreed (also restored the thread)
I appreciate your thoughts but I wholeheartedly disagree on many of them. Misrepresenting your research (and yes, I get that there is a spectrum and lots of potential gray areas here but changing your coefficients like the post suggested clearly crosses the line) is a potentially fireable offense and depending on the context could even be illegal (imagine consulting where you present research in court, or other areas of industry). We commonly delete posts encouraging other types of flagrant academic dishonesty, having sex with current students, accepting bribes, etc so that's really a huge break with tradition at all.
If you read the thread now it looks much cleaner (which is great!) but when I deleted it originally there were lots of posts along the lines of "Yeah! I do it all the time!" and that was the general tone of the thread. In other contexts these troll posts wouldn't matter but in this case, when they could lead to someone making a really bad choice and potentially losing their job/job placement, it does matter. That's why I deleted it. If the other mod disagrees, restored it and wants to keep it clean, great. I'm very happy that the tone in that thread is very much the opposite now and I'm happy to let stand the other mod's un-deletion but I stand by my original action at the time.
As for the Brexit deletions being heavy-handed, you know that politics are not allowed on EJMR but the practical standard is that for really big political events the norm is to have one thread for the event and keep it all contained in there. There was already an existing thread on the recent Brexit developments and so I deleted the extra one. That one is really nothing to write home about. As is the norm, if the other mod disagrees and restored those threads, I will stand by that too.
To your point about the job market candidates blowing off steam, I think that's a fair point and will update accordingly.
I think most of your deletions are appropriate. But on this, I think you are unilaterally changing the long-standing rules of the forum. Trolling and encouraging academic dishonesty are no basis for deletion. "Want an easy top pub" is a classic thread that does both and there are other examples. You are wrong here.
I also think some of the Brexit deletions are heavy handed and that there was no need to delete harmless posts blowing off steam about how the market sucks.
The goal is to get rid of the political spammers. Not to make this place dull.
-inactive modWhy was this thread deleted?https://www.econjobrumors.com/topic/have-you-ever-changed-a-regression-coefficient-in-a-paperToo much trolling and encouragement of academic dishonesty and potentially breaking the law. It won’t be reopened.
yeah, agreed (also restored the thread)