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I got an email that this concerned the question I created as well...

An editorial sent in by a reader is not a report. An editorial written by someone one staff and published as an article or column is, as it will at least be fact checked before printing (hopefully). Anyhow that's what i say.

What about this scenario:

I want to make a "who will win the Superbowl" question now, which closes at the start of the regular season. The idea is someone who predicts the winner before the season starts (with a small bet of 5-20 H$) would make a huge profit and be able to prove they actually did call it before the season started.

Then the question comes up again the two weeks before the SuperBowl is played and suspends before the game starts, as usual.

In this case the market is not deluded because the two questions will not compete with each other or serve the same function. I'm sure i can be applied to other things as well, such as if the "Who will be President" question had a suspend date set for after the two party conventions and THEN the general question opens up only with the major candidates during the actual campaigning.

This could be made clear to users by a simple "Prediction" or "market" tag the creator is able to choose while making the question, and then setting the suspend dates accordingly ;)

forgot to weigh in on the solution!

I favor the stricter 2 step approach for cheating of this magnitude, though I agree with the admins that for lesser instances the 3 step plan may be more appropriate, especially with new users.

Well I see lucid states quoted me!

IMO Satyaki earned a large amount of money by cheating and then used that money to earn more, so just taking away the money earned by cheating is not enough. Also it is a second offense and if he was "warned" before than retroactive enforcement of the rule is NOT unfair.

Also I would like to say thanks to those members of the community who brought this to everyone's attention, without you this wouldn't be getting fixed!

One last note, American sports might not all be hugely popular around the world but they sure are here! Questions about games in American pro sport or college leagues with good (read fair) odds are not gaming ;)