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kruijs replied on March 23, 2008 20:46 to the discussion "The Golden Rules for successfully playing the HUBDUB" in Hubdub:

I do not think that what sd said should be considered illegal. imho he just tells you to watch the game to recognize how markets behave, and to than stake your bet on a position where the outcome is somewhat better predictable.

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kruijs replied on March 23, 2008 20:42 to the discussion "The Golden Rules for successfully playing the HUBDUB" in Hubdub:

Thanks for your answer destry, I really appreciate it. Gaming actually is a major issue. But not a primary topic on this discussion. Even less is this discussion meant to be a platform on which (former?) cheaters and (selfreferring?) fair players should quarrel each other.
I'm still hoping for some helping hands the experienced guys reach out to rookie players.

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kruijs replied on March 23, 2008 17:35 to the discussion "The Golden Rules for successfully playing the HUBDUB" in Hubdub:

Very funny. Can we get back to the topic and leave this personal stuff behind?
Go somewhere else flaming at each other - spoil some other thread with it.
Thank you.

kruijs replied on March 23, 2008 06:26 to the discussion "The Golden Rules for successfully playing the HUBDUB" in Hubdub:

Avoid very long running markets. You're just locking up your money.

kruijs replied on March 23, 2008 06:23 to the discussion "The Golden Rules for successfully playing the HUBDUB" in Hubdub:

Betting on crowd movements

To understand what you are doing when "riding the wave" (stake money at a low percentage and cash out before settlement actually occurs) and cashing out with a profit:

You predict that more hubdubbers will bet on a certain outcome than the current standings. This is highly speculative, of course. You do not predict that the option will be the actual outcome. In fact, you might even be sure another option will be the correct outcome, but still, the possible raise of the false option might give you the earnings.

This is likely, when the outcome of a question seems really not (or hardly) predictable or the odds are far from the real possibilities. This must be evaluated on each question itself.

On the other hand, you should not speculate on something like that when the question is going to be settled soon (jerry said already) or the outcome seems to be decided. There will be not enough people to swing the market in your direction anymore and you'll be loosing your bet.

On the other hand, you might, theoretically, be causing the wave yourself if you put a large amount on a low priced option. In that case, the price raises noticeably and other users might think "hey, some people seem to be sure on that outcome - they have information that i have not - i will just follow". But do not count on that!

kruijs replied on March 23, 2008 06:00 to the problem ""Show on Profile" bug" in Hubdub:

thanks for that
seems a bit complicated to me,
I think I'll simply wait until they fix the bug.

kruijs started a conversation in Hubdub on March 22, 2008 23:26:

The Golden Rules for successfully playing the HUBDUB

I noticed jers beeing asked for some suggestions how to make a better progress in words of gain on staking money in predictions. Jers was very polite to give some basic hints on that.

IMHO it could be encouraging if there were some guidelines or hints for newbies which they could try to follow and which could contribute to the progress someone makes.

Knowing about the willingness of many of us to freely share our opinions, our long time evolved experience and knowledge of the system, I think it's time to start formulating

THE GOLDEN RULES for successfully playing the HUBDUB

Please feel free to add your personal idea of what could be one of those rules.

Not sure whether to make this an Idea or a Discussion ...

kruijs replied on March 22, 2008 22:09 to the question "Sort and search your open predictions" in Hubdub:

You're right. That's one of the drawbacks when implementing AJAX style (web 2.0) stuff. It can be solved with an extra effort though.
And no, my name (it's my last name actually; well the important part of it) is Dutch and could be translated to "cross" rather than Chris.

kruijs reported a problem in Hubdub on March 22, 2008 17:27:

"Show on Profile" bug

I have the "Show predictions on Profilce" checkbox checked in my Site Settings.

Though the checkboxes seem always to be checked when making a prediction, I noticed the predictions are often (not always) not being shown on my profile.

I cannot really say I can reproduce this behavior, or in what specific circumstances it occurs.

Edit: I noticed it occurs always when I put in a manual amount on the prediction.

kruijs replied on March 22, 2008 17:08 to the question "Sort and search your open predictions" in Hubdub:

This will also be available on the other (supsended, closed, cashed in) lists too, right?
Than on the settled list it would be nice to be able to sort by settlement date, so I can see where all the cash came from since my last login...

kruijs replied on March 22, 2008 16:47 to the idea "Promoting HubDub by HubDubbers" in Hubdub:

Cool. Looking forward to it.

kruijs replied on March 22, 2008 16:46 to the idea "Leaderboards: the new solution" in Hubdub:

You're right. I just answered for rohan. He said "(...) to have a high level of growth.". For my part, I don't have this luxury problem :)

kruijs reported a problem in Hubdub on March 22, 2008 09:46:

Large user images on profiles

Large user images on profiles seem not to be scaled to popper internet file sizes. I had uploaded a very large image (jpg, 1MB) and it seems that on the profile page the original image is shown. You can rightclick on it and choose "show image" than you'll see it in original dimensions.
This should be no big deal to fix, I think. It will lower your bandwidth usage and speedup loading times.

kruijs replied on March 22, 2008 09:23 to the idea "Leaderboards: the new solution" in Hubdub:

That wouldn't work out as wanted in terms of % Gain leaderboards, I think.

kruijs shared an idea in Hubdub on March 21, 2008 21:50:

Promoting HubDub by HubDubbers

My idea is to have something like a snippet of HTML which I can copy/paste to my own website.

It should then display a small version of the hubdub logo and an abstract of my profile (wealth, leaderboard standings, my bought blingbling (when available)).

Technically it would be the same like you can do here on getsatisfaction (see the "Put Hubdub Topics on your Website"-link):
http://getsatisfaction.com/hubdub/wid...

kruijs started following the idea "Invite HubDubbers to a question by Username, rather than just email." in Hubdub.

kruijs replied on March 21, 2008 21:34 to the question "I accidentally misspelled a key word in my question. How do I fix it?" in Hubdub:

What will be done about this?