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Destry replied on June 04, 2009 05:36 to the question "is at&t blocking hubdub?" in Hubdub:

It is a Hubdub problem.

Destry replied on September 04, 2008 03:33 to the question "Here is the problem with category editors make decisions on questions they have heavily wagered on" in Hubdub:

This is a market that kept evolving, and as it did, a vote for the candidate is the ultimate endorsement, especially as a super delegate who is not bound to anyone but herself. As far as the market having a time frame of just til the convention, I just think if that was the case then the suspend date would not be November 3rd. I have no horse in this market either.

Destry replied on September 04, 2008 02:52 to the question "Here is the problem with category editors make decisions on questions they have heavily wagered on" in Hubdub:

Thanks for bringing this up here. This market has been difficult because there seems to be no place to see who she cast her super delegate ballot for. If she cast for Obama, then we could settle based on that as her supporting him. If she chose Hillary or no candidate, then she would not have endorsed him yet. So what that leaves us with is two possibilities, she endorses Obama after the convention before the election in which the market would be voided (no option for that), or she does not endorse Obama at all and then the last option is the winning option. So what we are looking for is an official vote tally of the superdelegates or just hers. If anyone has that please email to me, or request settlement on that market and include the link.

Destry replied on August 19, 2008 08:07 to the problem "Once more time about the suspend times" in Hubdub:

Yeah I will admit, I have a bad habit of suspending markets before they start. I know curios seems to be on a personal vendetta against me for creating AFL markets with accurate starting odds and suspend times that suspend before the matches begin. All the odds for the AFL markets can be checked at canbet.com, which is the same location I am getting the times for the matches.
As far as odds, of the 8 markets I created for the AFL this week, I did get the odds flipped on one of those markets. Curios made several large wagers to try to benefit from an honest mistake. As soon as I seen the odds were reversed, I quickly voided market and re created with accurate starting odds.
I know that Curios is a fan of the AFL markets, and after having a ton of his markets voided when he attempted to create, I began to create the markets so him and others that are into Aussie Rules Football would have fair and accurate markets to wager on. I even sent Curios a challenge for each of those newly created markets so he could wager on them immediately, not having to wait the 12 hours, that question creators do.

Destry started following the idea "Election Map Page" in Hubdub.

Destry replied on August 17, 2008 02:38 to the idea "Election Map Page" in Hubdub:

Great Idea. Will pass this on to the tech guys. I know we are working hard to get our election center updated and tweaked for this historical election.

Destry replied on August 16, 2008 08:07 to the problem "Once more time about the suspend times" in Hubdub:

Orlin. I agree with you. Accurate suspend times is something that is challenging. One reason there hasn't been more effort is because so much effort was being spent making sure the times weren't too late or odds were more accurate. I know that with the addition of the category editors and super users, we have more eyes on the site than ever before and we can hopefully catch these.
What I can ask everyone to do is first like you suggested to try and get accurate times when question is created. Second if the market is something you know about and can help by flagging us with the correct suspend time, that would help greatly. Finally we can just try to keep an eye out on who is creating questions with bad suspend times and try to help them. We don't want to discourage users from creating markets, so hopefully we can find a solution that helps everyone.
Thanks for taking the time to report this problem, maybe just bringing it to the attention of everyone will help some.

Destry replied on August 16, 2008 06:52 to the idea "discussion forums" in Hubdub:

Yes. Forums are in the works. Stay tuned for more updates.

Destry replied on August 10, 2008 17:09 to the question "How do we encourage good question creation?" in Hubdub:

I think we have steered away from the point a little. The idea was how do we encourage users to create good questions, not how do we stop bad ones. I would like to see the list of top 10 markets that are put on facebook each week, be listed on the Hubdub, that way we could solve two problems, first being helping new users find markets, second create a little recognition. Having your question on the Top 10 list on Hubdub would make some users feel good, and that is what we are all about.
I am not in favor of giving out money to question creators on a daily basis, maybe a one time $50 welcome payout when they create their first market with settlement.

Destry started following the question "How do we encourage good question creation?" in Hubdub.

Destry replied on July 10, 2008 20:32 to the discussion "Question page rearranged to promote commenting" in Hubdub:

Can we make the default position so the settlement information is expanded and if someone wants they can read less.

Destry replied on July 10, 2008 20:27 to the discussion "Question page rearranged to promote commenting" in Hubdub:

Can we move the information about the user who created the question and other questions created by that user and other markets about the subject above the news?
Can we have the old graph which was able to be zoomed in to a particular time frame. Could we get wager information on the graph (how much money, how many predictions).
What about flipping the comments, so newest comment is at the top.

A comment on the question "What constitutes as Nokia's version of the iPhone?" in Hubdub:

Here is page I found some information on: http://gizmodo.com/377655/first-pictu... – Destry, on July 09, 2008 07:56

Destry replied on July 09, 2008 07:55 to the question "What constitutes as Nokia's version of the iPhone?" in Hubdub:

1. Nokia is supposedly working to release a model called "Tube" which is its answer to the Iphone.
2. Talks of this model have been around for months, but the actual release date hasn't been mentioned.

Destry started following the discussion "Defining 'BY', 'BETWEEN' and everything in between..." in Hubdub.

Destry replied on June 29, 2008 06:06 to the problem "keeping account updated" in Hubdub:

Can you be more specific with what the problem is?

Destry replied on June 26, 2008 21:39 to the discussion "Wall Street Journal says, "‘Pundit Watch’ May Need Its Own Watchdog"" in Hubdub:

Pundit Watch has accomplished some of what it set out to do. That was to try and get the attention of the media, so it could then drive traffic to the site. Whether that media attention was good or bad, it will still drive people to the website.

Destry started following the discussion "Wall Street Journal says, "‘Pundit Watch’ May Need Its Own Watchdog"" in Hubdub.

Destry replied on June 26, 2008 18:53 to the discussion "Wall Street Journal says, "‘Pundit Watch’ May Need Its Own Watchdog"" in Hubdub:

Well I guess the saying all press is good press is what we have to be excited about.

Destry started following the discussion "Hubdub in the news ... Cleveland Plain Dealer" in Hubdub.