@IsaacKing Similarly, if Carol legitimately thinks that Bob and Alice shouldn't be together, but didn't bother to talk to them about it until a market went up on their relationship, should that count? I'm inclined to say no, since if she successfully convinces them to break up, Alice and Bob must have thought that was the best decision.

@IsaacKing Personally, I think it primarily depends on intent. If Bob thought what they were doing was ethically right independent of their profits, then that's good. If Bob thought it was wrong but did it for the profits, that's bad. Of course, it can get complicated because profit incentives can create motivated reasoning.

Perhaps Bob believes it harms Alice in the short term but is good for her in the long run, or perhaps it harms Alice but helps her friends, or perhaps Bob believe sharing the truth is fundamentally right. It's not hard to imagine scenarios where Bob kept quiet until someone asked about it.

For the Carol example, I think that clearly is a no, regardless of whether the attempt to convince was successful or not. (I don't think "since if she successfully convinces them to break up, Alice and Bob must have thought that was the best decision." is true actually, but if Carol thought it was the best decision then it's an attempt to help, not harm.)

@IsaacKing there needs to be a way to chargeback shares found to be made via taking action to cause harm (perhaps one could call it "fraud", even. "destructive insider trading" perhaps, to differentiate questions where there's one side where insider trading is welcome, because it would be prosocial for the insider to take the money and make the bet come true.)

@Elena @AlyssaVance @nyuuposts Would you be willing/able to share slightly more detail about what occurred there? Primarily I'm interested in knowing whether it was a "good faith" attempt, such as providing nyuu and vara with reasonable arguments on why they should break up, vs. a "bad faith" attempt, such as spreading false rumors about one of them.

The brief description shared previously is not enough to conclude whether it was an attempt to cause harm at all (although it seems sufficient to count as drama, which was the question in that market).

Unfortunately, one person bet No, then tried to break us up. As far as I can tell, this was a serious attempt, not a joke or a prank. Luckily it didn’t work.

If the person legitimately believed that they should break up, and both predicted on their beliefs and tried to convince them on that basis, then it was an attempt to help, not harm.