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There are far too many bad questions out there, and even more questions with ridiculous initial odds. Just take a look through the new questions. I found one for college basketball that had like a 75% yes for some lesser team beating Duke (ranked second in the US), and a Yes/No question about "how many majors will Tiger Woods win" - huh?
Do you think there should be some restrictions on creating questions? Should it be earned? Maybe you have to have been on the site for a few days before you can submit questions, and maybe a speed limit on how many questions you can submit per day (limit could go up with time).
I'd suggest a text box next to the initial odds, where you HAVE TO explain how you came up with them. If your explanation doesn't pass general muster, the question is voided quickly.
Obviously there are more elaborate schemes (user reputation, super user vetting, etc) that have been put forward, but some of these will take time to implement. I'm thinking of an immediate solution here.
Do you think there should be some restrictions on creating questions? Should it be earned? Maybe you have to have been on the site for a few days before you can submit questions, and maybe a speed limit on how many questions you can submit per day (limit could go up with time).
I'd suggest a text box next to the initial odds, where you HAVE TO explain how you came up with them. If your explanation doesn't pass general muster, the question is voided quickly.
Obviously there are more elaborate schemes (user reputation, super user vetting, etc) that have been put forward, but some of these will take time to implement. I'm thinking of an immediate solution here.
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Inappropriate?Ya I am concerned about this too. I think during the day about questions that sound or could be made to sound resonible but are not. I posed the question if there will be an earthquake in Michigan. I heard there was one actually some year, but to me it's bascilly impossible for that to happen. I also made it an 80% chance that it would happen. I bascilly wanted to test and see if this would get voided. But what I thought is if it does get voided what would the serious argument against the question be. What makes a question resonible or unresonible? I wonder about people who make tons of money and don't have all their questions made public.. not even just them... anyone... are they creating their own questions and making dollars off them. This is why I created the crazy question and set the odds so crazy. I wanted to see if i could make up my own sure thing and win off it. I think that is what is about to happen. It's not the end of the world, just something we need to think about addressing. -
Inappropriate?I know what you guys mean. At the beginning I tried to eliminate such questions by arguing with the creators over the comments or by simply flaging such questions.
But the usual result is that the others simply shrug, give some stupid answers that thatfor the market would exist and take care about balancing it. And even in cases where mutual agreement is reached and multiple persons flag the question, there ain't a void coming. Instead those questions get settled.
I remember very well the most extreme question I've seen yet:
http://www.hubdub.com/e/Market/Will_H...
I had to write a really angry mail till it reached the right person ( in that case Nigel ) who voided if afterwards. As we all know people still keep their insane wins in those cases.
Or an actual example where something that should be at 70% started with 20%:
http://www.hubdub.com/e/Market/Will_U...
I truly hope that PowerUsers rise soon and will finish off such crap.
