Clans (or firms, or syndicates, or whatever you wanna call them) could be a better, funner, and more organized alternative to the unofficial loaning that goes on in Manifold. Here's how it would work. Each member of the clan can add as much mana as they want to the clan's trading pool. Any member can use that mana to trade in any market. A percentage of the profit (decided by the clan leader) goes to the member who made the trade, and the rest goes back to the investor. The leader may also limit what topics members may trade on. E.g., a politics clan can only trade on markets which have the politics tag. And each member's profitability would be recorded, so that the leader may kick out the low-performers.
This would be much better than the current loaning system, where, hypothetically, you may loan a reputable user a thousand mana for three months only for them to be banned from the site before they can pay it back. The clan system would avoid such problems. It could also open the door to new features, like competitions/leagues between clans.
Clan we do this?
Users have made clans in the past. If you want it built in you need to demonstrate that clans are the future. You have to have 5 or 10 or 50 separate clans all actively trading and working for several months to show the site management that clans are the future of the site.
@Eliza I've been trying to subtly "nation build" with these markets listed below to try to make some proto-clans.
I'm trying to find a way to pit them against each other, but I'm struggling to find a way to make a clan system where people aren't on 2 separate teams simultaneously. It turns out, people who follow me and my antics tend to engage with multiple projects of mine.
I'm still experimenting, but believe me, I'm am already on the quest you've presented. I do not expect this to move quickly.
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@SimonWestlake Do you object to me sharing the Chain Links pages here? I think that was an amazing offshoot initiative, and I want people to experience the shenanigans we got up to in there.
@Quroe Go for it!
I wish the end of that hadn't coincided with a period of me mostly checking out of Manifold. It would have been fun to end on more of a bang.
Behold! The 2 levels of the Chain Links.
This was the initiation space.
This was the fully loyal space.
I think that individual risk is still necessary to prevent good money from chasing after bad money.
However, a Manifold League of clans' average members' profits might be interesting. Kinda like a fantasy draft.
I already basically have 2 proto-clans formed right now.
๐ The Chain Links
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๐ซ The Beans