Tuesday, October 10, 2023

Proposal: Skin in the Game

Withdrawn—adminned by Clucky

Adminned at 12 Oct 2023 20:11:58 UTC

If the proposal “Take the Money and Run” was not enacted, this proposal has no effect.

In the subrule “Accusations”, add the following bullet point after the bullet that begins with “If it is true and the Accused Punter won any Readies”:

* If it is true and the Accused Punter did not place a Bet on that Sporting Event directly or as part of an Acca, the Accused Punter is fined 50 Readies

Meddling without a Bet is a harsher penalty for not taking any risks at all, since Meddling is free. 10 Readies is too cheap, but 50 will give a Punter pause.

I didn’t use Clucky’s recommended “Accused Punter did not win any Readies” because a Punter could place a Bet and not win any Readies due to betting on the wrong outcome, which is not what Bucky’s complaint was about tampering with events that a Punter didn’t bet on.

posted by JonathanDark at 10 Oct 2023 22:45:00 UTC Comments (4)

Comments

Clucky: he/him

11-10-2023 00:23:29 UTC

50 seems harsh you might as well just bet 1 to get around this going forward so this would only possibly punish people who have meddled on stuff prior to this getting enacted

JonathanDark: he/him

11-10-2023 00:35:44 UTC

What would be more fair? 25? I think there should be something more than the 10 you proposed, so I’m willing to change it to a different number.

JonathanDark: he/him

11-10-2023 04:46:01 UTC

I thought about this some more and realized that Clucky’s right: any Punter who Meddles could easily escape any non-Bet fine with a bet of 1, so it doesn’t matter what value is chosen.

against Withdrawn

Bucky:

11-10-2023 19:21:28 UTC

The hole in this whole scheme is a punter who meddles and loses anyway.