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Are you still having this issue?
Mine seemed flat last night, but I also didn't appear to be winning anything!
Seems okay today though.
No parties during that time period, although hubdub is 1 today! Time for a party?

Welcome to all!
Good choices!

I think this is an excellent suggestion. Thanks for submitting it with such a detailed explanation.

I often see interesting and newsworthy markets that I'm hesitant to wager heavily on, as the settlement is so far away.

Makes sense to me! I'm also following the rule of thumb, which I posted in the other discussion: if settlement depends on any kind of interpretation or could be questionable, then I'm staying away from it.

@dieseldog - I appreciate your concern about my sex life and am sure that my wife does too! :)
While the volume of questions and how we get those settled in an accurate and timely manner is one issue that's been raised here. I think we're also trying to define what is considered "newsworthy" as well as what the users want to see on here. As you can see below, there have also been some good suggestions regarding the way in which questions are created as a whole.
If the sports category continues to grow, then I'm sure other admins will be willing to help out. We are all a team here!
Thanks for your comments and support! – MrPerfkt, on August 05, 2008 14:56

Welcome to the discussion Nigel! Good to hear your input and more about what's going on behind the scenes at hubdub.

Lots of good input here. After reading the above suggestions, here are a couple of things that I'd like to toss out in response:

There seems to be some agreement as far as the putting the onus on the creator of the question. Other discussions among Super Users and Category Editors seem to lean towards encouraging more of this as well. Even in doing this, I feel that there is still some responsibility of the Category Editors to verify accuracy (unfortunately, this is more true with some users than others).

As far as the approval period, the biggest issue that I see with the "thumbs up" process would be that users are deciding on the same questions that they may be wagering on (and thus have vested interest and influence on how much they may or may not win). The Super users have been pretty good about flagging questions quickly. However, the current process still requires the question to either remain open or suspended until the Category Editor approves. I don't see any problem with the SU's having more authority - especially in questions where the starting odds are more clear (those where professional bookmakers already have odds out).

I don't know how I got this cupcake picture here, but it's making me hungry....

I have to admit that infernalmachine's fantasy hockey question was one of my favorite sports questions since I've been on this site. He also did a great job managing and updating the question on a regular basis. If you look back at the question, you can see that he spent a great deal of time on it (which also brings us back to one of the issues that brought this discussion here - what is reasonable to be expected of time and effort put in to the settlement of questions...as well as the timeliness of this discussion prior to the start of the regular season of other sports). So I like the "onus" concept. As those types of questions can be fun, I would hope that we wouldn't have to limit questions to the "who will win" variety only.

letmewinplees, along with some other users have also been very good about providing the results of some of the various stats questions, but as the new category admin, I also feel responsible to check the math and make sure everything is correct.

I'm not sure what the feasibility is, but have to admit that I kind of liked the idea of question approval. Not sure that we're prepared to implement something like that right away, but perhaps an idea to keep in mind. I'm new to the whole admin thing, so I can only share from my new and recent experience, but I've spent a great deal of time responding to flags about starting odds of different events and "what if this happens" scenarios.

Also, I hope that my comments have not sounded like I was not willing to put in some work here. My intentions are directed more at concerns about taking over a very active category, watching the questions and hubdub evolve and anticipating the direction that we are going with the sports questions (as well as others).

Thanks for everyone's feedback

I'm glad that this question has been raised. Obviously, this has an affect on me as the new Sports Category Editor, but also on the direction that hubdub will take and what users want.

I'm excited about the upcoming football season and am glad to see users getting more creative with their questions recently.

To me, it sounds like the questions that we are trying to answer are these: 1) do we want to limit the number or types of questions that come up in the sports categories to what would be considered more "newsworthy" or what larger numbers of people want to see....or leave this area open, encouraging users to get involved and be creative?
2) if we go for the latter route, what would be the best way for the admins to handle this volumen?

As bayoubear pointed out, there could be multiple questions on each of the 14-16 NFL games each week. I've already seen comments about the possible different fantasy league type questions (have to admit that I'm a big fan of these myself), so I would anticipate a number of questions about different statistics and matchups. Then, throw in the NCAA/College football questions and all of the variations of these. I might have to quit by day job! :)

What are other users thoughts?