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chris replied on February 25, 2008 15:31 to the question "old Q says it's settled yes, but showing up in my void panel" in Hubdub:

Yes, this means the prediction was made after the cut-off point, which was likely set to the start of the game when the question was settled

chris replied on February 21, 2008 22:50 to the problem "Market with negative H$ balance (bug?)" in Hubdub:

Do you mean market activity? There are a few markets with negative activity, because of a bug in generating the activity figures. Luckily this figure is not used in determining prices or settlement values so there is no need to fix it for existing markets

chris replied on February 20, 2008 00:59 to the problem "Settlement resolution: washington temp" in Hubdub:

It was a personal opinion. I'm happy for the question to be settled by the relevant category editors as they see fit. And yes, that sound you heard *was* me ducking the question

chris replied on February 19, 2008 23:58 to the problem "Settlement resolution: washington temp" in Hubdub:

I think 50 breaks 50.

chris replied on February 19, 2008 20:49 to the question "What address shall I use for bug reports?" in Hubdub:

Since I'm on support for the day, feel free to send it direct to me: chris@, well very much the address you'd expect.

chris replied on February 19, 2008 20:48 to the problem "I am receiving duplicate follow-up emails from the Get Satisfaction forum." in Hubdub:

Sounds like an issue for the get satisfaction get satisfaction forum:

http://getsatisfaction.com/satisfaction

chris replied on February 19, 2008 17:22 to the problem "How to flag faulty settlements? ...Kosovo, for example" in Hubdub:

Every source I have read explicitly states that the US has recognized independence and is in the process of setting up diplomatic representation. Serbia have in fact severed ties with the US as a result of it.

In terms of the way to complain generally about a settlement you regard as incorrect, you should simply click the 'flag for review' link on the question page and make a note of your objection there.

chris replied on February 18, 2008 19:03 to the problem "I don't know how but $30,000 just went missing from my hubdub account in a matter of hours.This money was not bet on anything and was just lying there.How can you explain that??" in Hubdub:

Nigel should have been in touch with about this by email

chris replied on February 18, 2008 03:13 to the problem "New leaderboards are wonky" in Hubdub:

The main reason for not clawing back the cash was that we were reluctant to put people into negative credits or inconvenience their investment strategies. Neither of these are reasons to wrongly give them credit for something they were wrong about.

We are currently trying to work out exactly how to treat these positions though, since as it stands if the market is reopened and left open you get to keep the cash but not the credit, and you cannot sell out of the prediction which is a little harsh. Real use of the site throws up so many amazing edge cases....

chris replied on February 18, 2008 02:32 to the problem "New leaderboards are wonky" in Hubdub:

The code which calculates the values has changed (mostly because the old code was a stopgap measure which had stopped working properly). I have more confidence in the new code.

Quarterly gains as they stand should represent the total net gains from making predictions. There may be some discrepencies compared to the old code where predictions were resettled - we let you keep the cash from a prediction that was wrongly called winning, but we don't want to let you keep the credit :) . I believe that's the only difference, but feel free to do some adding up and tell me I'm wrong.

Short term means predictions which were/are open for less than 48 hours, and long term means ones which were/are open for more than a week (which is just the kind of prediction you like to avoid infernalmachine!). These boards are mostly a proof of concept, so feel free to tell us how you feel about our choice of metric (though bear in mind that I'm very attached to the long-term one because I'm top :D )

chris replied on February 15, 2008 15:41 to the problem "How does the system work?" in Hubdub:

Some people have gained from gaming the system, or in this case just blind luck in being able to take advantage of a wide-ranging system problem. At least 2 of the top 3 seem quite happy to have things reset, and I can see the reasons for feeling like that would be a good idea, although at the same time it's difficult for us to say that we are certain we have ironed out all the glitches in the system at this point, so it would be premature to do some kind of reset this early in the game.

I'm also aware though that we have thousands of users who have been plugging away trying to make an honest profit from legitimate trading, and by resetting them as well I think we are kind of kicking them in the face. It also doesn't address a potential issue going forwards of new users starting off with their thousand dollars and playing against long term users who have large (and eventually entirely honestly gained) fortunes.

We are certainly open to suggestion that allow us to address both these issues and keep everybody happy.

chris replied on February 14, 2008 18:33 to the problem "How does the system work?" in Hubdub:

It's made the leaderboards change somewhat because it moved prices on the markets. Frustratingly not to my advantage I notice

chris replied on February 14, 2008 17:45 to the problem "How does the system work?" in Hubdub:

We introduced a small glitch yesterday which resulted in the markets being unusually unresponsive to money being placed into them. Actually in the longer term we are considering making them less responsive than they are, though possibly not to quite the extent we did.

In the course of fixing that error we somewhat overcompensated though, making the Yes/No questions ridiculously responsive for half of today.

Everything is now back to normal.

cheers
chris