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A comment on the question "Will new rules apply for markets suspending daily?" in Hubdub:

Um I think maybe you meant to post this in a different market thread? This topic was about # of MLB and other sport questions. – jenniandboys, on August 03, 2008 18:46

jenniandboys replied on July 14, 2008 20:29 to the problem "these suspensions are costing me money!" in Hubdub:

Glcooper - can you tell me which markets you're talking about?

jenniandboys replied on July 03, 2008 14:05 to the problem "keeping account updated" in Hubdub:

Let me take a stab at this...

Let's say you invest 100 dollars at 50% odds. On your prediction tab, it says Staked 100, If right you get 200, Currently worth 100.

Then some more people bet on the market and now the market is sitting at 75 percent. Now your prediction tab says Staked 100, if right you get 200, Currently worth 150.

Finally, the market settles and you get that friendly little email: "Well done! You gained $100"

So the confusing part is what's actually going on with your money through all of this.. Your net worth is composed of your cash and your predictions (that's in the upper right of the screen).

Let's say that when all this started, you had only 100 dollars in cash and no other predictions. Then your screen would say: Cash 100, Predictions 0, Net worth 100.

After you make your prediction, the cash is put into the predictions. Now it says Cash 0, Predictions 100, Net Worth 100.

Now people are agreeing with you and your prediction has increased in value... You have Cash 0, Predictions 150, Net Worth 150.

Finally, after settlement the money moves from predictions back to cash... Cash 200, Predictions 0, Net Worth 200.

Where people get confused about is that the email said "You won 100" and yet it appears that your net worth only went up by fifty bucks. The important part is that your net worth had ALREADY gone up.

So its not that your not getting your money at settlement, its that you already HAD some of it. It was in your predictions money, not cash, but was already affecting your net worth.

I hope that helps a bit and didn't make it even more confusing!

jenniandboys replied on July 01, 2008 13:17 to the discussion "Copy question as new for question creators" in Hubdub:

Another possibly major thing: is this actually working for non superusers? My two nonsuperuser contacts both do not have "create as new" options for questions they created...

jenniandboys replied on June 27, 2008 16:20 to the discussion "Copy question as new for question creators" in Hubdub:

You guys are really rocking this week! Of course now that we see how much you can accomplish in 3 days, we're going to have really high expectations next week!

A comment on the idea "In Play markets" in Hubdub:

dude, that is SOOOOOOO cool!!! – jenniandboys, on June 22, 2008 23:41

A comment on the idea "In Play markets" in Hubdub:

i feel oDdlY capitalized :) – jenniandboys, on June 22, 2008 22:43

jenniandboys replied on June 22, 2008 20:16 to the idea "In Play markets" in Hubdub:

Umm. I don't really see why we would label these markets 'in play'. I thought in play was reserved for games and events... this is an entire season, right? We have lots of questions that cover the events of a season: F1 drivers championship, American Idol winner, NCAA champion, etc that haven't had any extra 'in-play' handling.

Seperate from any discussion of in-play guidelines (which are good discussions to have) I don't see why these questions are labeled in-play. Am I missing something??

jenniandboys replied on June 19, 2008 13:04 to the idea "Super Users now on Hubdub's GetSatisfaction Site" in Hubdub:

We're still hoping that t-shirt thing can be negotiated though!!

A comment on the idea "NEW and IMPROVED" in Hubdub:

actually this already exists - i don't know how long they've had it, because i rarely read my void emails, but this one did have a link to my question in the "edit" phase, so i can just make a minor change and publish. – jenniandboys, on June 10, 2008 21:33

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A comment on the idea "NEW and IMPROVED" in Hubdub:

oo! excellent idea! – jenniandboys, on June 10, 2008 12:12

jenniandboys replied on June 09, 2008 15:46 to the idea "Question Creation Leaderboard" in Hubdub:

Hmm... will keep teasing anniversary comments to self :)

I do like the idea of encouraging good questions somehow, but agree there's isn't a straightforward way to do that. Bayoubear does a good job of keeping up with the DJIA questions, but that doesn't earn him the right to sit at the top of a question leaderboard every week... (sorry bayou)

I've mentioned this repeatedly at this point, but hey, what's one more time:

It would be great to have a digg/rating system for questions we think are good-- either for being very timely (Mork's: When will Hillary concede question would likely be my nominee for last week) or creatively getting to an important issue (Might nominate my own WV racism question).

In the meantime, Lesley's "best of" that she was doing on the facebook page might serve as good suggestions for the type of questions that we would want rewarded. For those who haven't been there: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hubdub/...

jenniandboys replied on June 09, 2008 15:35 to the idea "Leaderboard Summary on My Hubdub Page" in Hubdub:

I like this idea and had also suggested having a summary for all your category leaderboard positions.

Having a configurable profile page would be a natural place to allow some of this to show up. You could also then choose what leaderboard/ranking information you like to see regularly (and maybe more importantly, what you want others to see about you!!)

A comment on the problem "A Hubdub representative (super user Mork) not being a good role model for Hubdub?" in Hubdub:

WHAT THE !

I'M SO UPSET THAT I FEEL COMPELLED TO DIVORCE TRI AND SHAVE OFF ALL MY HAIR!!!

(or maybe just giggle and move on...) – jenniandboys, on June 05, 2008 19:48

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jenniandboys replied on June 04, 2008 22:09 to the problem "A Hubdub representative (super user Mork) not being a good role model for Hubdub?" in Hubdub:

I will refrain from posting my thoughts here (and I have many) and just remind everyone that the admins are all tucked up safely in their beds completely unaware of the drama transpiring across the ocean. It will likely be quite a while before there will be an official response to this thread.

jenniandboys replied on June 02, 2008 15:08 to the problem "Duplicate Market?" in Hubdub:

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.