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First I think these are great markets. Second I hope that Donal will approve them. I suspended them until Donal can approve. The labeling of them IN PLAY was the only point where I didn't want Hubdub users to get confused. I have asked that Donal approve all these markets for the IN Play status. He is currently on vacation and Brian who is filling in will run these by him in the following days. I am sure once he gets back he will address the IN play markets. I know in another thread he mentioned some basics, hopefully we can now get further details.

You have did exactly what is needed. Now that the question has been asked here, all the admins and super users have received an email notification. While I am not completely sure about the market you have an issue with, I do remember some conversation about it. I am sure that Donal or another admin will address it shortly on here.

I think it would be interesting to have an admin weigh in on this topic. With 10 of them supposedly getting updates on this, seems like this issue merits some official positioning.

I fought to get the in play markets for the NBA Finals. So after seeing them run, I can say I have formed some solid opinions. First and foremost, I think in play markets benefit those users who can dedicate the time to it. Is it fair for everyone absolutely not. I believe that the Dow questions should suspend at the opening of the market. I believe that sports questions should suspend at the beginning of them too. Until the Dow questions are changed, I think we should allow in play sports questions.
The essence of this issue is how much predicting and how much following of the news is required to be successful. With regards to the dow, it is no different than a baseball game, it has a beginning and ending, events occur during those two points which determine the outcome. A major report is released, causing market to move rapidly, in sports a player might get injured causing the outcome to be in doubt. What do we say to baseball fans that are penalized because they their wagers suspended at the beginning of the game, while we let the Dow players, go til the final pitch. There are those that say because we don't know what time the baseball game will end, we have to suspend it early. Well what we need to work on is a way to void all wagers made after the game is final. When we can void wagers which were even cashed out after that point, then we could allow those games to run til the end. Do I think this will make Hubdub better... absolutely not. I think it would make it fairer for most of the users. I believe if we want to make Hubdub better then we should treat all questions equally, and suspend all questions about a scheduled event before the event begins.
How do we deal with the major events in the world, we should follow the example of Vegas, allow "prop" bets, but suspend them before the game begins. If you want to wager on the over under in second half of football game you have to do it before it begins.

Thats okay Jenni, we enjoy listening to you talk.

I think the last thing we need is more leaderboards. I feel like we are taking this politically correct everyone is a winner theory a bit too far. There are winners and losers, if a person cant find a reason to be motivated then that is their problem. Some of the things I do, is try to move up a particular leaderboard, I pick a user and try to beat them for a given period. The last thing I want is more leaderboards.

I am shocked there isn't a market asking how long epicur will not participate in the site. We have seen people "leave" before.

Wow, I feel like mom had to step in and decide which kid gets to play with the new toy, all in all neither kid gets the toy and both learn not to bother mom in the future.
Thanks Lesley for stepping in, you deserve props for the wisdom of Solomon.

I can't speak for another super user. I can say that this question seemed very specific and given the limited background should have been settled as a NO. Common sense would lead me to believe that if a dollar amount is given in us dollars and the fine isn't that amount, then it is a NO. Were the starting odds off, maybe. I think what we had is a question that should have been voided before settlement.

I can't say I am sad. Those long term markets drive me crazy.

I have the same OCD. I would love to see destry move to Destry.

If we could have a way to look at these on the my hubdub page, and then be able to sort them based on date or category that would work.
I really want this feature, and think it will be very useful to getting activity spread across a wide range of questions.

I am all for option 3.

I think we should shelf this idea, while valuable, until Hubdub has at least been around a year. We are not even out of beta yet.

My only point is this, for 48 of the 50 states, if we ask the question "which candidate wins state X", whether we use the popular or electors the results are exactly the same, since one leads to another. But for the two states in which the electors are decided based on the popular vote by congressional district, it would be possible for one candidate to have more popular votes but end up with less electors. So if the question is "which candidate will win Maine (or Nebraska)", we are going to determine winner based on who has more electors for electoral college and not the popular vote... is this correct? The only downside I see for using the electors is that hypothetically those electors are not forced to vote for a particular candidate, and we could be forced to delay settlement until the electoral college meets.

I have foxclocks on the bottom of my browser so i can know what time it is in my time zone, in the gmt/utc time zone, and also in edinburgh. I think we should simply go to GMT/UTC so there is a constant. People will learn it quickly enough.

I am hoping we see in the phase 2 rollout of the super user functions a situation in which all questions are in a suspend status until they can be reviewed. I hope that would help stop some of these problems from occurring. I also think we should spend more time working with new users on creating good markets.