Which of these best describes you personally?
Donating mana is not important to me personally
Donating mana is important to me personally, but it's not the main reason I care about Manifold.
Being able to donate mana is the main reason I care about Manifold.
Respond by liking the appropriate comment below. By choosing to respond, you agree to respond honestly.
You are also encouraged to discuss your thoughts in the comments.
This market resolves to the fraction of responses 2 and 3 out of the total, i.e. (#2 + #3) / (#1 + #2 + #3)
For fine print, see https://manifold.markets/jack/standard-poll-rules
Note: I am aware that selection bias is a major concern for a poll like this. I suspect if you polled random community members, you might get substantially different results.
1,000🏅 Top traders
| # | Name | Total profit |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ṁ55 | |
| 2 | Ṁ42 | |
| 3 | Ṁ32 | |
| 4 | Ṁ12 | |
| 5 | Ṁ1 |
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To answer a slightly different question: I finally created an account because I realized that I could subsidize the market whose accuracy I cared about (pandemic probability). Then I realized the site’s gamification is really good and got sucked in.
I intend to keep adding liquidity to things, but don’t really think about the donation option.
The main draw for me is the mental exercise. Making mana by betting is like a game, it's fun! Being able to donate to causes I care about is great, but I've been drawn to websites to make fake money that are much less entertaining. Still, I believe I'll be more likely to leave, to some extent, if/while mana has less real world impact, and I do care about that impact.
@TylerColeman Same for me. This might not be common, but I view real money the same. I've got passive investments which will keep growing, and I will increase such investments for long-term future, but other than that, the real impact of money on my day to day life is the flexibility to do something I want to do. In the end, most of my expenditures are on either food or on travel stuff. Although Ṁ is fictional, its tethering to real-life impact definitely helped provide some sort of credibility(?) when I first started out here.