Will Manifold allow market creators to pay Mana to "feature" their own markets to attract more traders by end of 2025?

Question

Closes by end of 2025. Same market as the one linked in the comments but with a different time horizon. The other one (end of 2023) better measures to what extent we think the Manifold team will prioritize this feature above other potential features and/or use this as a monetization method over the next year. This market better measures whether it will be a good feature between now and when Manifold (ideally) is a more stable platform. A few notes from my feature request post:

As a market creator, there are often markets that I would like more eyes on, but there's not an easy way to achieve that other than word-of-mouth groundroots link-sharing. You can subsidize markets, but that doesn't strictly get more eyes on it

Market creators (and other users, with the permission of the market creator) should be able to pay mana to "boost" the prominence of a given market and get more impressions than the status quo

Two methods come to mind for me:

1. A promoted section on the home page, showing the boosted markets

This could be optional or not, but I think it's good form to make it optional so that users that really don't like it can customize it away; that said, I wouldn't be surprised if there would end up being lots of users that like seeing the boosted markets. I would be far more interested in a market if I know that the creator is paying mana for it to be boosted!

2. Showing boosted markets with increased regularity in ManaSwipe

Mana pricing to boost a market could either be fixed or dynamic, but I personally think auction pricing makes a lot of sense. It solves the problem of users just boosting their markets to farm engagement bonuses, as the market-driven price would likely end up high enough so that it's only worthwhile to boost the truly engaging markets (or if the booster has another motive)

High-value boosting times (e.g., election, year-end resolution season, weekends etc.) would naturally receive a higher auction price

Manifold Markets · Accepted Answer

Yes — resolved on Mar 17, 2023 by Manifold Markets prediction market.