A week after the whales vs. minnows market concludes, I'll do a poll. It'll resolve to whatever side more people vote for.
You can define "good" however you like.
I've tabulated the votes, and No wins with 9 votes to 8! Only person who voted in both polls was @Mira (who voted twice).
I've posted a poll on the main market (https://manifold.markets/IsaacKing/will-the-whales-win-this-market#dBLxGzn0KEowBgiRsyWY), and will repost it here as well. I will deduplicate votes among the two instances.
@FlorisvanDoorn Apparently they gave like $25k of it back to him, but still totally agree, they took down the $1000 price tier to purchase mana, and said they were going to make adjustments so something similar doesn’t happen again, and avoid feeding into potential gambling addictions. so overall I would absolutely say’s it’s a positive to Manifold.
@eclair4151 Additionally, this whole ordeal caused Manifold to start clarifying if Alt accounts were ok, and also shows that anyone could start exploiting new signup bonuses and the api to siphon money and build up a huge balance. Which I imagine Manifold will now start to address and put protections in place because of it.
I’d love to hear why people don’t think this overall would be a net positive. There was a bit of drama along the way but I think most things got settled out in the end.
@Shelvacu The poll will be phrased the same way the title of the market is, and will have "Yes" and "No" as options.