(Daily loans were automatically given to users at midnight PT ish, the new system makes users click a button to get that day's "loan")
Made a poll because I thought it'd be nice to have this convo on manifold instead of Discord.
@chrisjbillington I have it on an alt, but not on this account. They probably disabled loans on accounts with negative net worth or something. Or it's a bug.
Regardless of the fact that not giving loans to <0 net worth individuals absolutely makes sense, I personally vastly prefer the system that gave me loans over the system that does not.
@Dilon Fwiw I also voted wrong. I meant to say that I like the old system better.
Generally, I’d prefer to engage with manifold in a slower way and mostly make long term bets. I actually kind of wish there was an alternate version of leagues that only looked at long-term profit and didn’t include the daily and weekly challenge bonuses. I understand the business need to have some metric to measure, and daily active users is a straightforward one, but things like the new loan system make me less likely to engage with manifold in the way that I prefer.
@chrisjbillington I think this is backwards? Anyone with an incentive to misprice a market can consistently claim their loans. This hurts people who have real lives to attend to and don't want to check Manifold every day.
@IsaacKing I think both types of users exist - obsessives who will misprice, and casuals who will. This reduces the influence of the latter, who I suspect are more numerous.
@IsaacKing Example, just saw my limit order get hit in the below market, it was a user visiting the site for the first time in 6 days and spending all their loans mispricing a market. I see this not too rarely. But I see every-day ones as well for sure.
https://manifold.markets/ScottLawrence/will-a-chatgptcomparable-chatbot-be