@SamMead The profit manipulation and bonus farming here are against the ToS and/or community guidelines. Please consider this a formal warning to stop doing this. I'm still investigating the details and what to recommend as a response.

If you're interested in participating in the site in a productive fashion, that's great! If so, please give me a full list of involved accounts and questions before I have to go digging thoroughly.

Let me know if you have any questions about what is or isn't allowed, or anything else about how Manifold works.

@EvanDaniel Sry, I didnt realize (I didnt be read the terms of service). The accounts are just this one and a few of my other Google accounts.

@EvanDaniel I didn’t use any alts on this question

@SamMead But on one other question I used @SamMeada1cb @SamuelMead @Samuel

@EvanDaniel Again, I apologize for any trouble I may have caused

@EvanDaniel I have two questions that haven’t been resolved yet. If you could take a look at those and tell me what would be the best way to proceed that would be great

@SamMead I think my current inclination is to resolve those as N/A, unresolve this and other related questions and re-resolve them as N/A, and then ask that you not do that again. Is that the full list of alts you've used on all questions?

In general:

• alts (or sockpuppets, etc.) should not be used to benefit a main account

• Bonus farming is bad

• Alt accounts are sometimes allowed, but should be clearly marked as such in their bio (along with who they're alts for and what the purpose is)

• Markets that are "non predictive", "self resolving", or "gambling" should generally be added to the "unranked" and "unsubsidized" topics to make them unranked and unsubsidized. That's the recommended way to make weird / fun markets not run afoul of some of the above guidelines.

@EvanDaniel Yes I believe that’s the full list of alts. I only discovered manifold the other day

@SamMead OK, thank you for your help! I'll proceed with that plan. Welcome to Manifold, let me know if you have questions or if there's other stuff I can help with!

@EvanDaniel You keep mentioning “bonus farming” what is that

ngl, i’d ride this ride again

@mattyb ah yes, the "Bankman-Mead scheme" with a flawless record

@ValeriiR

@mattyb ugh, this was supposed to be the fool me once gif

@mattyb fool me thrice and the Bankman-Mead scheme becomes the Bankman-Fried scheme

Buys NO -> resolves NO. 400 iq move right there

@ValeriiR thank you

@ValeriiR hmmm, I wonder if the market creator "Sam Mead" is the same guy as the top winner of this market, "Sam Mead" - truly a mystery lmfao

@ValeriiR I guess we’ll never know

@ValeriiR is this the new Manifold pyramid scheme

@ValeriiR where you keep making markets where you bet yourself and exponentiate your income through resolving them yourself?

@ValeriiR you should make a new market where we have to guess which of your alts will reply next

@ValeriiR Yesterday I did something similar, I created a yes/no question. Then I created 4 new accounts, bet all of the mana each new account had on no. Then on my main account I proceeded to buy yes with all my mana. Then resolved the question yes

@SamMead someone should start a new market, will I be able to predict with at least 90% accuracy, which of Sam Mead's alts will reply to my comments?

@SamMead wow. This is even better than a ponzi scheme bruh.

You should change your name to "Sam Bankman-Mead"

@ValeriiR I will

@SamMead ahahahahh lol lmfao

@ValeriiR gigachad move

@ValeriiR someone should make a bounty to calculate how many markets like this would you need to get to 1 million mana

@ValeriiR I actually could have made twice the mana on this one. I bet no and resolved no, but if I bet yes and resolved yes I would have made twice as much. But if I did that more people would lose mana. This way I profit and nobody loses more than 1 mana

@SamMead most benevolent world destroyer Sam I've ever seen

@ValeriiR I think you could profit 1 million mana pretty easily. You would just need a lot of alts.

@SamMead Or a lot of freinds/followers

@SamMead someone has to do this useless calculation. the world has to know

@ValeriiR Someone with a lot of followers on twitter/threads could just upload a referral link and become a manifold millionaire in minutes

@SamMead Ok true. Let's assume that one does not have that many followers on Twitter and has to rely on pure market profits, not infinite referrals. You can only operate 4 alts at any time. How many markets does it take for a single main account (the 5th one) to get to 1 million?

@ValeriiR Hmm, when I reach 1 million I will tell you

@SamMead i think the police will know sooner but sure

@ValeriiR Based on how much profit I made on this market. If I did this roughly 8928 times I would get to 1 million

@ValeriiR Although it’s probably a considerable amount less than that because the more mana you have the more mana you can potentially make