Use mana to let the team know what you think about how they're running the website. 100% means everyone is happy with the direction Manifold is going and the team behind it, and 0% means something has probably gone tragically wrong.
Does not impact profit rankings
You get your mana back through loans over time
Permanently open market, will not resolve.
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1,000Like come on guys, WTF?
@10thOfficial i am generally against resolving to market price, so no overall arguments from me there, but FWIW in that specific case i am confident it was just people trailing the spike in the polymarket price and not people trying to game the system
@10thOfficial There were some news updates on that yesterday: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/jeffrey-epstein-trump-client-list-declassified-b2696710.html
@10thOfficial totally fair! i am generally against penalizing people for going against market consensus, and i would probably personally advocated for N/A (if the market cannot be run until conclusion as intended). but i understand why that would have angered a lot of other people who had booked paper profits along the way.
@10thOfficial luckily I wasn't involved in the whole sweepstakes thing but I feel bad for people who were. The way removing them was handled is simply terrible, I would feel robbed.
Sweepcash removed
@Robincvgr wait does that mean the entire pivot has been reversed now in less than a year? First the trader bonus to trading fees switch, then the removal of loans, then prize points and sweepcash
@GleamingRhino I am still sad at the planned removal of sweeps and will miss it but this was pretty funny
@TheAllMemeingEye Except for charity donations. We now have the exact same manifold as one year ago minus charity.
Puts on tinfoil hat "was that an elaborate plot to distract us from mana charity removal?"
@ProjectVictory the worst thing is I originally joined the site purely because of the charity element, but even now they've removed it I'm still compulsively using the site every day out of addictive habit, mindlessly maximising my now meaningless internet points at the cost of my real life productivity, it's like I was lured into drug addiction with free samples lol
@SG please bring back some kind of charity element π₯Ί
@TheAllMemeingEye I doubt they can afford the charity. Their $500k charity grant ran out in August. I do think the pivot to Sweepcash was at least partially meant to distract from the removal of mana donations, but they would have had to do so regardless. I'm sure they were not planning to pivot away from Sweepcash after, that would be ridiculous
@TheAllMemeingEye Making mana 1-1 convertible with USD donations was always a huge mistake (depriving us of many of the benefits of play money, while not giving us the advantages of real money).
But bringing back a charitable program of some kind is very doable. In fact, I have an idea...
@travis I think this is literally true btw. The value of mana is 1. the ability to get your question answered, 2. the ability to compete and build up an objective forecasting track record (which you can use to impress your friends, future employers, etc), and lastly, 3. fun.
Information is a public good. By trading on questions, you're creating valuable information which is freely consumable by the public. The charitable and philanthropic value of this information far exceeds the relatively small dollar quantities that have been donated through this platform.
Making mana 1-1 convertible with USD donations was always a huge mistake
But bringing back a charitable program of some kind is very doable. In fact, I have an idea...
