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sd marked one of newscollecter's replies in Hubdub as useful. newscollecter replied to the discussion "Proposed new procedure for dealing with gaming".

sd marked one of newscollecter's replies in Hubdub as useful. newscollecter replied to the discussion "Proposed new procedure for dealing with gaming".

sd marked one of newscollecter's replies in Hubdub as useful. newscollecter replied to the discussion "Proposed new procedure for dealing with gaming".

sd marked one of newscollecter's replies in Hubdub as useful. newscollecter replied to the discussion "Proposed new procedure for dealing with gaming".

sd marked one of rohan's replies in Hubdub as useful. rohan replied to the discussion "Proposed new procedure for dealing with gaming".

sd marked one of newscollecter's replies in Hubdub as useful. newscollecter replied to the discussion "Proposed new procedure for dealing with gaming".

Orlin's reply to "Proposed new procedure for dealing with gaming" was just promoted to the most useful! sd and 3 other people think it's one of the best replies.

IMHO this problem is not of so great importance as it is attributed.
No less problematic is the fact that the # 1 user in the leaderboard had make his not normal huge amount of H$ by more that 2/3 only from questions created by himself and self-responded by him on local american sporting events of little if any interrest for users outside the US.
But this is not a sportbetting site, there are plenty of them outside. And american local sporting (and other) events are far from being really popular for the rest of the world.
This is also a sort of 'gaming' which undoubtfully affect users' success and the leaderboards. And I'm really suspectfull of the fairness of the incredible success on sport betting of the # 1 user. May be the flood of american sporting questions should be limited? It appears that if you are not very familiar with local american sport you haven't any chances to enter top 20 of the leaderboard. Oh, indian cricket too.
These are two faces of the same problem.
So - when one group of these two is attacking the other, this seems a little bit unilatteral.
Also - although user Satyaki was the fist one publicly named as suspect of gaming two months ago, he's listed as 'friend' in most of (and in ALL editors') "My friends' section of those who want his head now. Isn't it a little bit hypocrite?

sd replied on April 05, 2008 12:15 to the discussion "Proposed new procedure for dealing with gaming" in Hubdub:

Ok , a formal apology from me for all the users I have offended.
I would not have acted so arrogantly had someone come out and said that
I understand what "sd" is trying to say . My words will make perfect sense if you were to listen...but the problem is you don't listen...you hear one person shouting and you join the parade . Half the people protesting don't even know my field of activity .
The shout in my profile was in a fit of anger because inspite of the red box krujis went and wrote "This user is suspected of gaming" . If its already written in the box I am sure others can read it .
I have nothing to say about the profile description because it is what I am .Just to please everyone I am editing it and removing the small grey alphabets below it.
Fourthly I want people to recognize the fact that I could not have come to $300000 purely by using unfair means.
I request all users to call off the strike and if it will please them I will ask the admins to have the extra 8350 removed.
I can nor say nor do anything more . If you are not yet satisfied then I cannot satisfy you any further.

sd replied on April 05, 2008 11:41 to the discussion "Proposed new procedure for dealing with gaming" in Hubdub:

Over 10 Hubdubbers went on strike , 130+ comments were posted , 2 special questions were created , 4 questions were voided , 2 Hubdub threads developed into extremely long conversations and all for $8350 in 2 weeks . If someone wants to take it away they are most welcome although I don't see what change it would bring about in the leaderboard.

sd replied on April 05, 2008 07:07 to the problem "I am on STRIKE" in Hubdub:

in reply to -
http://www.hubdub.com/e/Market/Will_h...
this -
http://www.hubdub.com/e/User/_4616/pr...

sd replied on April 05, 2008 06:45 to the problem "I am on STRIKE" in Hubdub:

Ironically satya means truth in hindi.

sd replied on April 05, 2008 06:38 to the problem "I am on STRIKE" in Hubdub:

*130 comments from <10 users.

sd replied on April 05, 2008 06:28 to the problem "I am on STRIKE" in Hubdub:

I wonder if destry spends 12 hours on Hubdub ....uh..sorry ...GetSatisfaction.

sd replied on April 05, 2008 06:19 to the problem "I am on STRIKE" in Hubdub:

The funny part is that people here don't even know what they are talking about !!
Ask yourself this question -
Have you any idea of why the Badshah questions were considered gaming ?
Do you even know who the Lahore Badshahs are ?
Do you know how much money was involved in these questions ?
I'm guessing 95% No

sd replied on April 05, 2008 05:59 to the problem "I am on STRIKE" in Hubdub:

I'm still waiting

sd replied on April 05, 2008 05:31 to the problem "I am on STRIKE" in Hubdub:

How many of you know anything about cricket ?

sd replied on April 04, 2008 10:44 to the question "Proposed rule amendments" in Hubdub:

Taping Roadies episodes?? Have I missed something?

sd replied on April 02, 2008 19:10 to the question "Proposed rule amendments" in Hubdub:

Introduce time zones with 1/2 an hour difference . It will cover the standard times of all countries.
Or - Put up a clock on the homepage showing the PST time as one can always make a mistake while calculating time.

sd replied on April 02, 2008 19:08 to the discussion "Brand New Leaderboards Live!" in Hubdub:

isn't this updated every hour now - the category gains leaderboards

sd replied on March 24, 2008 10:00 to the discussion "The Golden Rules for successfully playing the HUBDUB" in Hubdub:

New players can invest $1 in markets at extremely low odds (close to 0) and then when it rises you can cash out and make a handsome profit of $ $20 or so. If you get lucky and the prediction turns out to be right then you'll lose just $1 (.1 % of your starting fortune).
PS: any miserly people should avoid this as this will probably give them a heart attack .