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12:01 AM

@DavidZ and if the OP decided that I solved his problem, why do you decide that I didn't solve? 15 points went on your this decision. I think that at least the decision if I solved or not the problem belongs to the OP.

Alfred Centauri

This is, I think, a fine example of a conceptual question.

Sofia

@AlfredCentauri and @DavidZ if I ask a question a certain person, I deserve the respect to be answered by that person, and to my question. And the question was, who decides here if a question, conceptual or else, was answered.

dmckee

@Sofia Who told you that? You don't have a claim on the time of the other volunteers on this site.

Sofia

12:16 AM

@dmckee I don't understand. Please be more clear.

dmckee

What makes you think that the fact that you asked a question puts a onus on anyone to answer it. We're all doing this on a volunteer basis.

Alfred Centauri

@Sofia I don't have the slightest idea what you're referring to. I saw a question, made a post here to attract attention to it, and, with respect to whatever you may have posted earlier, I have not read it nor does it any relevance whatsoever to my post.

dmckee

@ChrisWhite It's been a while since it came up on meta, but at the time people seem to feel that the field was physics.

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Q: Should We Allow Econophysics Questions?

My question on econophysics is closed for being 'off-topic'. But at this stage-- when there is no econophysics forum and the boundary of Physics SE is less defined and rigid-- it should not be closed. Also one must understand that econophysics is physics, with some economics bent. Much like how e...

Sofia

@dmckee, @AlfredCentauri, @DavidZ I have the feeling that I ask one question and everybody answers me something else.

The OP decided that I solved his problem. Who's decision is if the problem was solved or not?

dmckee

@Sofia It's the OP's privilege to award the green check-mark, and other user's privilege to vote.

user54412

12:21 AM

@dmckee Ah I remember that post now. And apparently I was the only one who upvoted your answer.

dmckee

You are arguing that your answer is good for the asker. I don't think that anyone would disagree that the asker thinks that, but some folks feel that answering those questions is bad for the site.

Sofia

@dmckee : O.K., but you deleted the answer, just don't delete the fact that I solved the asker problem and the points he gave me for this. And, in general, a too detailed answer can be adjusted, if you'd advise me. Only the basic principles can be left. The advise help, the punishment is only the whip, but teaches me nothing.

dmckee

It wasn't me who deleted it (though I approve), and the moderator who did left you a comment explaining why he did it. The comment says that the deletion is "temporar[y]" and that it is in accord with our policy on this matter as set on meta.

You answer will be undeleted in a couple of weeks (assuming of course that the whole question hasn't been reaped by then).

alarge

12:42 AM

@ChrisWhite Econophysics papers are published on Phys Rev Lett rather than the J Finance, and by that alone I'd say the field is interesting to physicists and actually probably closer to physics than finance or economics. What you most typically have is a sort of an Ising model, where instead of magnetic spins you have maybe people. You still look at phase transitions and use a very physics-oriented toolset and language.

I should add that this is distinct from the math style writing with theorem-lemma-proof often used in mainstream economics.

dmckee

@alarge Now that is a pertinent fact that I hadn't known.

DanielSank

@ACuriousMind I kind of disagree with this, actually.

If a bad question gets a good answer that tells me that the question should be edited.

I guess closing/holding is supposed to invite OP to improve it, but it doesn't seem to go that way in practice.

Difficult to say what is the right course of action.

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