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rohan replied on February 19, 2008 06:54 to the idea "Nationalities" in Hubdub:

Interesting information:

Hubdub.com users come from these countries:

United States 47.8%
Germany 10.4%
United Kingdom 8.5%
Australia 5.7%
Canada 5.7%
India 2.6%
Israel 2.6%
Japan 1.4%
Italy 1.4%
Spain 1.4%
South Africa 0.9%
Singapore 0.7%
Switzerland 0.7%
Turkey 0.7%
Brazil 0.5%
Egyp t0.5%
Hungary 0.5%
Netherlands 0.5%
Norway 0.5%
Belgium 0.5%
Chile 0.5%
China 0.5%
Poland 0.5%
Romania 0.5%
Russia 0.5%
Other countries 4.3%

Nice huh?

rohan marked one of InfernalMachine's replies in Hubdub as useful. InfernalMachine replied to the problem "What is the "value" of a prediction?".

rohan marked one of InfernalMachine's replies in Hubdub as useful. InfernalMachine replied to the problem "What is the "value" of a prediction?".

rohan replied on February 16, 2008 16:26 to the idea "Nationalities" in Hubdub:

There are people who don't like to reveal their nationalities.

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rohan replied on February 15, 2008 10:36 to the question "did you change the percentages?" in Hubdub:

See: http://getsatisfaction.com/hubdub/top...

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rohan replied on February 15, 2008 05:24 to the problem "Incorrect Settlement" in Hubdub:

Being the question creator, I felt that I should respond to this. I attached a link to weather underground, not knowing that the rules stated that NOAA was to be consulted. In all fairness, I think that the question shoukd remain as it is, or if necessary, be voided.

[N.B. I lost $1600 on this]

rohan asked a question in Hubdub on February 15, 2008 05:19:

Stock questions

I'd like to know why the DAX, Nasdaq, Dow and FTSE 100 are considered to be "major", but not the BSE Sensex, the Hang Seng, the Nikkei and so on. Sure, local indices are not major, but these are major national indices with large amounts of trade.

rohan replied on February 15, 2008 05:12 to the problem "How does the system work?" in Hubdub:

Could someone explain to me how 2 users made around $200,000 during the 8 hours I was asleep?

rohan replied on February 15, 2008 05:11 to the problem "How does the system work?" in Hubdub:

Thanks Chris. You answered my question perfectly

rohan replied on February 14, 2008 15:32 to the problem "How does the system work?" in Hubdub:

You misunderstand. I agree with what you are saying. What I am trying to say is that betting on markets where the predictions are low are very low-profit, so a little more leeway should be given to those who spot a good bet first. Instead of being good fortune, it seems like misfortune to find a good bet, rather that a saturated bet.
Also, if I raise the odds to 82% suddenly, the question is no longer tempting to other people.
Therefore, my suggestion is to allow a bit more power to the initial investors, and decrease the amount by which the odds increase.Sure, "If the overall invested budget on a question is rather small, one huge bet changes balance more than in a huge market where the same bet is only a small fish in the pot", but it shouldn't affect it SO MUCH that initial investors approach a market with trepidation.

rohan reported a problem in Hubdub on February 14, 2008 13:55:

How does the system work?

I have noticed that while betting on new questions or those with low investments in them, the odds seem to rise very sharply. For example, I made a killing on the DAX question on Wednesday 13th February. So I decided, why not do it again for the Feb 14th question. That's when I ran into a problem. The question had zero bets on it. So, when I bet $1000(equivalent to about $18 to a new user) on it, the odds rose immediately from 50% to 82%. Now, making a small amount on my H$ didn't seem so great. I no longer feel like betting on new questions. Earlier, finding new questions with low bets and good chances of winning would spur me to make bets on them.Now, they no longer excite me - the maximum I can make is 300-400$, hardly a huge sum.

I don't understand - why should the first user to bet be at such a disadvantage? If I bet on a question with $20,00 on it, I can't significantly change the odds, so it seems worthwile to make bets. With this new system (I think it's new) other users too feel trepidation to bet on it first, so everyone is at a disadvantage. It leads to low liquidity in markets and loss of enthusiasm.

Please, users and admins, explain to me, why does this have to happen? Is it a bug? Is it intentional? Can it be remedied? SHOULD it be remedied?

rohan started following the problem "Slow Question screen updates" in Hubdub.

rohan replied on February 11, 2008 16:19 to the problem "voided question = loss of dollars?" in Hubdub:

I have the same problem. I have sent you a screenshot