Closes by end of 2025. Same market as the one linked in the comments but with a different time horizon. The other one (end of 2023) better measures to what extent we think the Manifold team will prioritize this feature above other potential features and/or use this as a monetization method over the next year. This market better measures whether it will be a good feature between now and when Manifold (ideally) is a more stable platform. A few notes from my feature request post:

• As a market creator, there are often markets that I would like more eyes on, but there's not an easy way to achieve that other than word-of-mouth groundroots link-sharing. You can subsidize markets, but that doesn't strictly get more eyes on it

• Market creators (and other users, with the permission of the market creator) should be able to pay mana to "boost" the prominence of a given market and get more impressions than the status quo

• Two methods come to mind for me:

  • 1. A promoted section on the home page, showing the boosted markets

    • This could be optional or not, but I think it's good form to make it optional so that users that really don't like it can customize it away; that said, I wouldn't be surprised if there would end up being lots of users that like seeing the boosted markets. I would be far more interested in a market if I know that the creator is paying mana for it to be boosted!

  • 2. Showing boosted markets with increased regularity in ManaSwipe

• Mana pricing to boost a market could either be fixed or dynamic, but I personally think auction pricing makes a lot of sense. It solves the problem of users just boosting their markets to farm engagement bonuses, as the market-driven price would likely end up high enough so that it's only worthwhile to boost the truly engaging markets (or if the booster has another motive)

  • High-value boosting times (e.g., election, year-end resolution season, weekends etc.) would naturally receive a higher auction price