The Silly Court is our new institution at Manifold to help resolve silly questions. The question up for trial in this market is Obama's last name. The comments section of this market will be used for each side's lawyers to argue their case. To become a lawyer for one side, all you have to do is post a comment in support of your favored side.
Closing arguments may be made on April 1, when the jurors will vote on the resolution. To become a juror, all you have to do is vote on the resolution. E̶a̶c̶h̶ s̶i̶d̶e̶ m̶a̶y̶ c̶h̶o̶o̶s̶e̶ t̶o̶ r̶e̶m̶o̶v̶e̶ u̶p̶ t̶o̶ t̶w̶o̶ u̶s̶e̶r̶s̶ f̶r̶o̶m̶ t̶h̶e̶ j̶u̶r̶y̶ p̶o̶o̶l̶ b̶y̶ g̶i̶v̶i̶n̶g̶ a̶ s̶u̶f̶f̶i̶c̶i̶e̶n̶t̶l̶y̶ s̶i̶l̶l̶y̶ r̶e̶a̶s̶o̶n̶ t̶o̶ r̶e̶m̶o̶v̶e̶ t̶h̶a̶t̶ j̶u̶r̶o̶r̶. T̶h̶e̶ v̶o̶t̶e̶s̶ o̶f̶ t̶h̶e̶ r̶e̶m̶o̶v̶e̶d̶ j̶u̶r̶o̶r̶s̶ w̶i̶l̶l̶ n̶o̶t̶ c̶o̶u̶n̶t̶ t̶o̶w̶a̶r̶d̶s̶ t̶h̶e̶ f̶i̶n̶a̶l̶ c̶o̶u̶n̶t̶. A̶s̶ t̶h̶e̶ S̶i̶l̶l̶y̶ J̶u̶d̶g̶e̶, I̶ w̶i̶l̶l̶ d̶e̶t̶e̶r̶m̶i̶n̶e̶ w̶h̶e̶t̶h̶e̶r̶ t̶h̶e̶ r̶e̶a̶s̶o̶n̶s̶ g̶i̶v̶e̶n̶ f̶o̶r̶ e̶x̶c̶l̶u̶s̶i̶o̶n̶ a̶r̶e̶ s̶i̶l̶l̶y̶ o̶r̶ n̶o̶t̶. T̶h̶e̶ t̶w̶o̶ p̶e̶o̶p̶l̶e̶ r̶e̶m̶o̶v̶e̶d̶ b̶y̶ e̶a̶c̶h̶ s̶i̶d̶e̶ w̶i̶l̶l̶ b̶e̶ t̶h̶e̶ f̶i̶r̶s̶t̶ t̶w̶o̶ p̶e̶o̶p̶l̶e̶ w̶h̶o̶ s̶o̶m̶e̶o̶n̶e̶ h̶o̶l̶d̶i̶n̶g̶ s̶h̶a̶r̶e̶s̶ i̶n̶ t̶h̶a̶t̶ s̶i̶d̶e̶ a̶s̶k̶s̶ t̶o̶ r̶e̶m̶o̶v̶e̶ w̶i̶t̶h̶ a̶ s̶i̶l̶l̶y̶ r̶e̶a̶s̶o̶n̶.
A hung jury will occur if the final vote is a tie. In this case, the top shareholders on each tied side will play a to-be-determined silly game to decide the resolution.
Whoever submits the winning answer gets the lawyer fee bounty, which due to silly reasons is contained in two markets:
1,000
3.00It's time for the jury to vote! Here is the secret form for the jury to vote with. you can change your vote at any time if someone makes a new argument today to convince you: https://forms.gle/exfmDfqymVjaAGZS8
It seems that my inclusion of an option with backspace characters broke Google's ability to make a pie chart (or at least I assume that's what happened).
However, I can still easily get the results by going to the "Question" tab in the form results.
There were five total jurors, and "Administration," submitted by Timothy Johnson, was the only option with more than one vote.
@TimothyJohnson5c16, you can collect your lawyerly salary by commenting on /PlasmaBallin/silly-court-lawyer-fees-find-obamas so that I can give you the bounty.
I just realized that I totally forgot about the whole "each side can remove up to two jurors" thing, and the mechanism I used to do the vote makes it impossible for me to tell who voted for what. This is a very silly mistake for me to make, so much so that it outweighs the silliness of any possible reason for excluding a juror.
It's time for the jury to vote! Here is the secret form for the jury to vote with. you can change your vote at any time if someone makes a new argument today to convince you: https://forms.gle/exfmDfqymVjaAGZS8
@PlasmaBallin In the future, I think the timespan for these markets could be a lot shorter. The actual discussion here was over within a few days, so a week would probably be sufficient.
@TimothyJohnson5c16 Seems like an unintended consequence of making "search" and "add answer" use different text boxes is that it's much easier to add an already existing answer by accident.
@PlasmaBallin I'm going to add this to my ongoing suggestion/feedback/insistence about this on Discord
Time to make my formal case for Obama McBamaFace.
Starting with the famous Boaty McBoatface (https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/boaty-mcboatface), there's been a long tradition of things being named in this format via internet polls. In almost all cases, the survey results have been honored.
By voting for McBamaFace, you are voting for a self-fulfilling prophecy. If the people want McBamaFace, the Silly Jury will have no choice but to honor it, or else they'd be contradicting a noble precedent set by many years of internet silliness.
It is wholly irrelevant what Obama's last name might previously have been. Before us is an opportunity to set a new canonical truth, following in the footsteps of our internet elders. Use it wisely.
He's actually Irish, so this is the correct spelling.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_No_One_as_Irish_as_Barack_O%27Bama
