It's frustrating for creators and sad for the platform to have so many markets with very few traders. It would help if more people would bet at least 1 mana on these markets.
Please post old and new markets with less than 10 traders in the comments, so that they can get a boost.
This market will resolve YES if it trades for more than 4 weeks at 99%. It will resolve NO if it trades for more than 4 weeks at 1%.
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3.00It seems like what would be needed here is to be able to use the total traders option in the browse view, but sorted by a low number rather than a high number of traders. Should be a relatively easy addition.
Meanwhile, I'm not sure "get all markets above 10 traders by making a bunch of small bets" is a good goal. Some markets are by people who are no longer active users or have a history of resolving markets poorly, and people should be using their judgment about which markets to participate in.
It is, however, a prosocial act to boost or subsidize a market that asks a question you would like to see get a good answer, and maybe manifold could put in place incentives to encourage this behavior.
@PlasmaBallin At 99% or 1% market forces are extreme. I don't think that can be manipulated for 4 weeks against evidence.
@GreenComp it would be hard for someone to make it resolve, but they could prevent it from resolving.
Here’s 643 to get you started.
https://manifold.markets/browse?topic=uk-2024-general-election-constituen