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@chrisjbillington please resolve

How are almost 30% of holders YES

Bc if u buy yes at 0.3% and you’re not the latest fool, another fool might buy it up and u sell and make a profit ggs the end

But tbh i dont remember why i bought this up at the time

Oh ig sometimes ppl put way too many shares into a market and get it way too low, snd later on they want money so they sell the shares, but they bought it at a bad price, so u can sell them back at a slightly worse price for them, you provide them liquidity and take a profit for the trouble

I’m up. Anyone wanna buy my shares? Great price. Might go up still.

I'm surprised that people are willing to push this so low. It'll be interesting to see if people hold on to their positions over time.

@Indigo me too, but I guess it makes sense in hindsight. Most of the active userbase haven't yet experienced the downside of making bets near 0 or 100% that aren't going to resolve very soon. Once they have experienced it a few times, I'm sure their behaviour will change.

@chrisjbillington I have more of an issue with finding worthwhile markets to bet on than liquidity constraints. Manifold needs more market makers and more active markets!

And liquidity is going to be even less of an issue going forwards since they changed the loan to 4%.

@Tripping (or anyone really) how do you find markets worth betting on? I'm having some trouble too. I feel like you have to go on trending, otherwise there isn't much activity.

I've started filtering out self resolving / referring markets, and that helped a little bit for me.

@Indigo I like going on Questions, sorting by closing soon and scrolling. If you like particular topics, you can also check out the groups for them and do the same thing for the questions in the group.

@Indigo No idea. I think the issue is more that there aren't enough people on the site making interesting markets in the first place, rather than it being a case of those markets existing and you simply aren't able to find them.

@Tripping I'm gonna be the change and start making a bunch of melee markets. Do you think we could get melee players on board with taking part? It's kinda like sports betting, people like sports betting

https://manifold.markets/Tumbles/who-will-win-melee-singles-at-battl

@Tumbles I think it would be cool if someone could convince the community to care

I'm rooting for you @MaybeNotDepends. The sun is definitely exploding.

This might be a great area. And I might be having too much fun. But you shouldn't create a market about something you don't understand and ignore science.

I think things can explode without being totally destroyed. Typically at least pieces are left and with small explosions a majority of the thing that exploded can be left intact.

@MaybeNotDepends This seems really disingenuous to me to accuse a market creator of "ignoring science" when really they are just going by the common sense meaning of the words and assuming someone wouldn't be this determined to argue for a silly interpretation. The creator clearly knows about solar flares and the way that a star prevents itself from collapsing, but neither of those are considered to be the Sun exploding by anyone except you.

"burst or shatter violently and noisily as a result of rapid combustion, excessive internal pressure, or other process."
The sun bursts

https://www.google.com/search?q=sun+explosions

@MaybeNotDepends Maybe you mean there are explosions on the sun all the time

@Odoacre Where do the explosions come from? The sun.

@MaybeNotDepends The question asks whether the Sun will explode, not whether it will cause an explosion. The fact that the explosions come from the Sun is irrelevant.

I'm not trolling. The sun regularly explodes. It is only rarely not exploding (see the Maunder minimum). And we're in a period of increasing solar flares. (I'm a radio enthusiast).

@MaybeNotDepends To clarify, that that's not what I mean by this market, and I apologise if you made bets to that effect. I suggest you sell.

As with all my markets I will resolve them in the spirit they are intended rather than the letter the resolution criteria, where there is a conflict.

Apologies for the confusion. I will update the resolution criteria when I'm back at a computer.

@chrisjbillington My recommendation for resolving markets is to follow the rules and only use the intention when the rules are unclear. That said, you can do what you want! (and I only lost a marginal amount of fake money, lol)

@MaybeNotDepends There are different possible interpretations of what the sun exploding means and it has been pretty clear from the beginning which is the one Chris intended to be used for the market. Making multiple comments about how the sun is definitely exploding under your interpretation of exploding doesn't really change anything.

@MaybeNotDepends

My recommendation for resolving markets is to follow the rules and only use the intention when the rules are unclear.

This recommendation is fine, but there's no way you can possibly argue that it should lead to a YES resolution. At best, you could argue that the rules were unclear before the creator clarified what would count as an explosion. There's no way you could argue that the rules were clear before and that a solar flares or the Sun holding itself up with pressure from nuclear fusion would count.