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I am not sure if this topic has been raised or discussed much but I want to bring up the issue of questions with no suspend date. I believe all questions can and should have a reasonable suspend date PRIOR to the outcome being decided. I have come across alot of questions, especially in sports, with no suspend date when there is clearly a day/time when outcome of question is going to be settled. These questions should have a suspend day/time BEFORE outcome is determined and not doing so, in my opinion, is GAMING THE SYSTEM.
I really enjoy Hubdub, and not mad or upset by this issue in anyway. This is a topic I bring up to try and IMPROVE Hubdub.
In my opinion:
1)All questions should have reasonable suspend date/time.
2)Admins reserve right to Add and/or Change suspend date/time using thier discretion.
3)Any question flagged for no suspend date/time or unreasonable suspend date/time
Admins reserve right to Add and/or Change suspend date/time using thier discretion.

The Admins do a great job monitoring and keeping the site going and thier discretion in adding suspend date/time is more than fair especially when creator of question doesnt add one.
Once again, I am only bringing up this topic to make Hubdub better. If anyone else has an opinion on this topic please voice it. All ideas welcome.

I've been thinking about this for a bit. Apologies, if it has been discussed previously. Didn't notice it if it has though. What about a leaderboard(s) based win/loss percentage(s) for successful market predictions?

I don't know if Hubdub has the capability (though I would think it would) to determine the number of predictions Hubdub members get correct versus the total number of market predictions they make. (e.g. I have made 100 predictions and got 60 correct, so would have a 60% result).

If a member cashes in on a question, then perhaps they would receive a partial credit percentage (e.g. 0.2%) depending upon how much, if any H$ they received (compared to the total they possibly could have received had they didn't cash in) after the market question has been settled. (e.g. If a member would have collected a max of 4k $H and cashed in receiving 2k, and after the question was settled, they were correct, then they would received 0.5%, from their cashing in.)

Could possibly have weekly, monthly, quarterly leaderboards based on win/loss, etc. but could also divide it up into groups of members, based on total number of predictions.

For example....

Less than 100 Predictions
101 to 200 Predictions
201 to 300 Predictions
301 to 400 Predictions

and so on.

Just an idea I thought I'd put out there for consideration, etc. I'm sure it could be improved upon too from the suggestions of others.

Thanks,
Bob

Recently some markets (especially in the political arena) have been found using pretty blatant subjective language. Here's and example:

http://www.hubdub.com/e/Market/Will_t...

The above market had stated "Will the Traitor Carter meet with Hamas officials in Syria by the end of April 2008?" I edited the market to say "Will Jimmy Carter meet with Hamas officials, in Syria, by the end of April, 2008?"

This was done to remove the contentious and subjective language in the market. "Traitor Carter" is subjective and its inclusion would only lead to unnecessary arguments between differing view points on the man, but not actually related to the market question.

So the rule amendment would be: "All questions must use objective language." So a market such as the "Traitor Carter" one would be formally disallowed because of it's subjective language.

How do people feel about this rule change? This is certainly a rule amendment we should discuss to work out all the kinks before we incorporate it into the rule book