Duplicate Market?
Hi,
With it becoming more and more likely that Obama is going to be the nominee I'm finding some markets which will cause us some trouble in the Politics category once Obama is the official nominee.
For example here's one market titled "If Obama is nominated, who will win the Presidency?"
http://www.hubdub.com/e/Market/If_Oba...
So the problem we have here is that the market will be pretty much an exact duplicate of the "Who will be the next President?" market. We do have other markets that are duplicates or very close to being and I'm trying to do some overdue spring cleaning.
But, how do we deal with this market? Right now I see two possibilties:
1. Suspend market once Clinton drop's out. This may set a bad precedent though.
2. Void the market saying it's a duplicate and that I failed to recognize the implications of this type of market beforehand.
So any thoughts?
Regards,
Ryan
Hubdub Category Editor
With it becoming more and more likely that Obama is going to be the nominee I'm finding some markets which will cause us some trouble in the Politics category once Obama is the official nominee.
For example here's one market titled "If Obama is nominated, who will win the Presidency?"
http://www.hubdub.com/e/Market/If_Oba...
So the problem we have here is that the market will be pretty much an exact duplicate of the "Who will be the next President?" market. We do have other markets that are duplicates or very close to being and I'm trying to do some overdue spring cleaning.
But, how do we deal with this market? Right now I see two possibilties:
1. Suspend market once Clinton drop's out. This may set a bad precedent though.
2. Void the market saying it's a duplicate and that I failed to recognize the implications of this type of market beforehand.
So any thoughts?
Regards,
Ryan
Hubdub Category Editor
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Inappropriate?I forgot the 3rd solution which is the easiest one.
3. We just let it be.
Regards,
Ryan
Hubdub Category Editor
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Inappropriate?I am all for option 3.
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Inappropriate?Option three
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Inappropriate?Ditto to 3. I've been vocal in the duplicate market business, but as you've pointed in previous questions I've flagged, it wasn't a duplicate when you made it. Lots of questions are going to boil down to Obama v McCain, but they didn't all start that way.
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Inappropriate?Everything about this election (especially the Dems) is a mess, so why should HD not also be a mess in this regard. I appreciate the difficulties you face here, Ryan. That said, I also vote #3
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Inappropriate?Maybe in future we should not allow the "if X occurs, will Y occur" type of question. If X doesn't occur, the statement is true regardless of Y, by the rules of logic. Not allowing this type of phrasing would force the creator to think more about the question, and hopefully ask a better and more durable question.
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Inappropriate?Hmm...
Ok three it is. Infernalmachine good point I'll pass this along regarding rule amendments.
Regards,
Ryan
Hubdub Category Editor
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Inappropriate?Option 3
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