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Tom Griffiths replied on March 22, 2008 11:42 to the problem "Large user images on profiles" in Hubdub:

Thanks for this kruijs.

Tom Griffiths replied on March 22, 2008 11:40 to the discussion "Props to the Community and the Admins" in Hubdub:

Thanks for this anaverageamerican. We always wanted to involve the community as much as possible in the development of the site. Our philosophy is that we'd rather push out functionality early and get our users to help us shape it than waste time developing features in secret then discover they're not as useful as we thought.

The discussions of upcoming functionality have also been very useful. In particular, I feel the recent simplification of the leaderboard quarter-end plans was a real triumph for community consultation - not least because it saved us a fair bit of development!! :)

Tom Griffiths replied on March 22, 2008 11:33 to the question "Closing Hubdub accounts." in Hubdub:

Hi Jarrod,

Users wishing their accounts to be closed should contact us via the contact form (stating their username):

http://www.hubdub.com/public/contact

We'd also really appreciate it if users who request this could tell us why, to help us improve our service.

Thanks for the question.

Tom

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Tom Griffiths replied on March 21, 2008 13:06 to the discussion "Leaderboard end-of-quarter changes" in Hubdub:

Hi everyone, thanks for all your efforts and comments. Please see the new, revised solution here: http://getsatisfaction.com/hubdub/top...

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Tom Griffiths replied on March 21, 2008 13:05 to the discussion "Hubdub Quarterly Reset Issues" in Hubdub:

Hi everyone, thanks for all your efforts and comments. Please see the new, revised solution here: http://getsatisfaction.com/hubdub/top...

Tom Griffiths shared an idea in Hubdub on March 21, 2008 11:41:

Leaderboards: the new solution

We're incredibly grateful to everyone who posted comments, feedback and ideas regarding the leaderboard quarter-end proposal. For brevity, let's say there were some very well-founded concerns that we've taken on board. In light of the discussion we've simplified things. In summary:

a) We'll motivate newbies and feed competition with the weekly % gain leaderboards
b) We'll let people find themselves on all leaderboards so they can compete with those around them (this includes the fresh new quarterly gain leaderboard)
c) we won't reset or rescale anyone's cash or predictions

The problem of managing large portfolios will be addressed by improving the portfolio management functionality. The problem of wealthy Hubdubbers moving questions with large wagers will be addressed separately.

Later we'll maybe introduce the ability to buy goodies for your profile so those rich ones amongst you can reduce your cash and do better in % gain terms.

It's a much simpler and better approach at this stage, so I wanted to say thanks again for all the hard thinking you've been doing on this. It's great for Hubdub to have such a passionate and thoughtful community to draw on. It'll be a better site because of it.

Cheers,
Tom

Tom Griffiths replied on March 21, 2008 10:24 to the discussion "Tits!" in Hubdub:

Hi InfernalMachine, we were actually going to post a similar question to get the community's opinion on this issue once the leaderboard stuff had settled down. Thanks for raising it now though.

I must admit, I feel a bit of a tit for voiding the question so hastily. This doesn't necessarily set a precedent for guidance in future. Our concern is where to draw the line on breasts. I mean breast terminology.

Tom Griffiths replied on March 21, 2008 10:13 to the discussion "Hubdub Quarterly Reset Issues" in Hubdub:

Hi all, just a quickie to say we are following these discussions, just not responding to every post. Your suggestions have given us food for thought, and we'll respond in full shortly.

Thanks for your continued input.

Tom

Tom Griffiths replied on March 21, 2008 09:53 to the discussion "Leaderboard end-of-quarter changes" in Hubdub:

Hi everyone, I wanted to let you know that even though we haven't been responding to every post, we've been watching this discussion closely and are finding it very useful for refining our plans. Thank you all.

Tom Griffiths replied on March 20, 2008 20:50 to the discussion "Leaderboard end-of-quarter changes" in Hubdub:

if you'd prefer to do this in private, just email me (tom@ [you can guess this bit].com)

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Tom Griffiths replied on March 20, 2008 20:45 to the discussion "Leaderboard end-of-quarter changes" in Hubdub:

Hi everyone, the purpose of this discussion was to gather feedback from (typically) our top users as to whether this solution would be acceptable. You've all done a great job of helping us there so far, so thank you.

To start to draw things to a close I'd like to ask explicitly: on a scale of 1 to 10, how acceptable is the solution as it stands?
10 = I'm totally excited about the new challenge, bring it on!
1 = I hate it, I'll never play again (being serious)

(newcomers to the discussion, feel free to post but do so as an answer to this question)

We've spent a lot of time and energy on the proposed solution so we'll take your comments and look to see what amendments are appropriate given the above discussions. Thanks all.

Tom Griffiths replied on March 20, 2008 20:23 to the discussion "Leaderboard end-of-quarter changes" in Hubdub:

sorry crudsy, it's a small display bug with a release that just went out. You'll be good in a couple of minutes.

Tom Griffiths replied on March 20, 2008 20:13 to the discussion "Leaderboard end-of-quarter changes" in Hubdub:

20 people on friends leaderboard bug now fixed.

Tom Griffiths replied on March 20, 2008 20:01 to the discussion "Leaderboard end-of-quarter changes" in Hubdub:

Absolutely. The numbers look like this (as of yesterday when we did the analysis):

20k band: 66 users
5k band: 171 users
2k band: 547 users
1k band: everyone else.

We looked into a 10k cut but there are fewer users between 10k and 20k than above 20k. This cut divided users appropriately, enabled us to use the boundaries as the starting amounts, and are nice round, understandable and memorable for everyone.

Tom Griffiths replied on March 20, 2008 20:00 to the discussion "Leaderboard end-of-quarter changes" in Hubdub:

Absolutely. The numbers look like this (as of yesterday when we did the analysis):

20k band: 66 users
5k band: 171 users
2k band: 547 users
1k band: everyone else.

Tom Griffiths replied on March 20, 2008 18:09 to the discussion "Leaderboard end-of-quarter changes" in Hubdub:

It's true rescaling will reduce some wagers to below H$1. This will happen this time for some people, not just after many quarters. We're considering what a reasonable cap would be to just cash out automatically such bets as part of the rescaling process.

The continual 'attrition' of long term predictions is a side effect of the system, but users will have the 3 months in between to reinforce predictions they feel strongly enough about between rescales.

Tom Griffiths replied on March 20, 2008 18:03 to the discussion "Leaderboard end-of-quarter changes" in Hubdub:

sorry, that's 20,000/(your current quarterly gain).... on condition that you'll be moving to the 20k band.