I will resolve any answers to these questions as soon as I see the xkcd posted for the given day. If it ever appears that the post was skipped (I don’t see anything before the next usual post day) I will resolve all answers to N/A. If the answer is ambiguous, I will wait to see thoughts posted on explain xkcd, and will either resolve or conclude N/A based on the possible consensus there.
If this market gets a decent bit of activity, I’ll try to make it a regular thing.
Others are free to add options, but I will delete copies, or incredibly vague answers.
I may bet in this market.
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@ZacharyParker I disapprove of the "(non-human)" addition edit, I think it should be up to @EBurk to resolve ambiguities, since they are the one we rate at resolution.
I don't know if there's a way to view answer edit history, now the interface seems to imply "(non-human)" was always there.
I don't care much in this particular case, but it's unfortunate that one can edit answers one submits on another's market if there's no accountability mechanism.
@kenakofer In general I think the person who added the answer is allowed to clarify what they intended it to mean if there is ambiguity
@Arky @kenakofer @ZacharyParker it is disappointing that there is no accountability mechanism, but for the most part, I’m fine for people to clarify their own questions, and I appreciate people asking about possible ambiguities ahead of time, so I don’t hear issues after the fact.
@EBurk Looks like there's a one hour timer for non-mods to edit. Seems pretty reasonable, I just will keep in mind that recently submitted options are a trade-at-your-own-risk situation. And like you say, clarifying before trading is a great way to avoid drama.
@kenakofer Apologies, I'm used to in most markets where I participate, markets being resolved as N/A when there is too much ambiguity and I realized my original market lacked clarity. Sorry for any difficulty that caused.
@jks Would you like this to be interpreted as the xkcd is posted late, or there is in fact no xkcd published that could reasonably be associated with the given date?
@EBurk My intent was a strict reading of the calendar date. If the title read "for Friday, February 23rd" instead of "on Friday, February 23rd", then that would change things, IMO.
@jks that's a good distinction, I will make sure to interpret this according to your condition
@jks I believe it has happened, but not definitely is not a common thing. I wanted clarify now because I want to make sure running this market is fun, and if I have to keep markets open for a while and go back later to resolve them it will be less fun.
@jks To give me a consistent condition in case there is ever concern: Randall Munroe is last listed as living in GMT-5 (Wikipedia, I'm not a creep), so I will use GMT 05:00:00 of the following day as my cut off for late, and will use https://tools.keycdn.com/curl to check the Last-Modified time of https://xkcd.com/.