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Hubdub should lock in those profits when you click cash in, having the market move afterward and paying out any differences should require a notice, such as the market has moved and your new profits or loss will be.

I agree with infernal Machine. Seems the bigger the bank account gets the more money I have to wager to feel the rush. I no longer bet just 100 on anything, 1000 seems to be a minimum and with events that I am fairly confident on I have pushed the upper limit 10000 bet a few times. Of course making large wagers on long term bets, is one sure way to go down the leaderboard, I went from 4th to 7th all because of a few wagers that will play out tomorrow.
There are still opportunities to make good money in certain markets, todays market on where dow was going to close was good play, if the market would have been open more than 12 hours it would have been even more fun and gotten more play.
I think the bugs are working themselves out, those gameplayers are being found out and eventually you will have people who enjoy playing and the leaderboard will show that. I like to see who is at the top, I would also like to see a complete leaderboard of total number of players too.

I am able to get in to the site now. Markets are going crazy.

I am guessing this answers the question will Hubdub servers go down.

Why do you suggest the people who wagered on Obama should only get thier wagers back, while those who wagered on Hillary are allowed to keep thier ill gotten gains. Either void this question and return everyone's wages, minus profits or consider this question suspended until the official count is finalized. There should be no reason that on an unsettled decision should one side be rewarded and another penalized. Those people who wagered on Hillary and were rewarded are also able to generate more profits with those dollars they shouldn't have.
I said void question, return everyone to where they were before. No one should be a winner when there is no clear winner as of yet.

I like the idea of power users. I feel there should be only a select view of them. I think we should have new questions reviewed by either category editor or power user, who can approve or veto the question. They can then set the values, and make the question live. I believe more people are interested in wagering on questions than creating questions, and if there was a delay between submitting question and it appearing on the site that wouldn't be a big deal. That would stop alot of the gaming of the system.

I like the idea of being able to set automatic notices in. I also would like to have the ability to flag a question I want to watch and possibly bid on later.

I feel that category editors should have thier predictions shown, so there is transparency there, but I agree with averageamerican that after the event has been settled or cashed in, it should be made public.

I agree that the rules are a good step forward to trying to prevent players from gaming the system. I have commented elsewhere that I feel the editors of each category should set the questions for events that are pre-planned, ie.. daily stock market questions, political events, award shows, and so forth.
I believe that the stock market question should have an suspend time roughly one hour before the market closes, otherwise those who have ability to watch the market at closing time are benefitted. I like certain sports events that are in-game play.
I believe that all new questions should be reviewed before being allowed to be wagered on. I feel that the category editors or other "power users" be allowed to review questions and give them a thumbs up or down. If a power user feels the question is questionable then they can submit to category editor, if they like the question it can then be made live. I feel these same power users and editors should be able to suspend questions that have been decided. Settlement would only be done by the editors, but allowing select group of power users to suspend question and flag it to the editor, it will stop heavy wagering on events that have been made public.
I feel by selecting users in different time zones it could help questions be monitored more easily. Especially those questions that relate to sport events.
I believe we need to also address the settlement of questions too soon. The Amy Winehouse question is great example of question being settled before the end date, and the news reversing itself. So those that selected she wouldn't be allowed in, were rewarded with a win, even though the news broke today that she was being allowed. So those that guessed correctly are penalized their profits, and those that guessed incorrectly rewarded. Same thing happened with the Super Tuesday delegate question, it was settled before final results came in.
I love the site, look forward to helping it continue to be a fun and interactive way to engage in current events.