If you think BTE should be unbanned for good, unbanned temporarily, given a trial period of unban, or some form of a second/third/forth chance, vote Yes.
If you think BTE should not be unbanned in any form before the end of 2024, vote No.
This poll is my own poll, it has no direct implication on what David should or will do.
Feel free to tell us in the comment session how/why you think BTE should be unbanned
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3.00I'm not exactly familiar with the situation, and I'm basically going off this comment as a description of what happened: https://manifold.markets/Bayesian/will-bte-get-unbanned-before-the-en#m34dpg5v85f
But, here's my 2 cents on why I vote YES.
BTE exploited an oversight in the platform, in order to "unfairly" profit in mana. IMHO, any sort of platform manipulation that can be done from a single account (i.e. no sockpuppets etc.) should be fair game (this is a less defensible opinion in real-money market contexts, but I think it at least holds for play-money). Although I think its reasonable for Manifold to take away his gains from this loophole and fix the bug, banning seems a bit much.
Even if we uncharitably believe BTE is "unreformed" and would do the same thing again if given the opportunity, it should be Manifold's responsibility to make sure that's a technical impossibility, not on him.
#JusticeForBTE #FreeBTE
I voted yes, not necessarily bc I think unbanning rn is the move, but because of the note in the description about "before the end of 2024". If we assume it's easy to catch/ban again, then there is a world where BTE's presence can be monitored/contained, and it will be positive for the site. There's a reason he was once given the ability to take on debt to create markets!
It may not be possible yet, but hopefully soon 😃 I personally enjoy betting against BTE.
From my read of the description, I think so, yes
edit: at least, I interpreted it to mean that a conditional unban / restricted account / etc. was included in YES