wagerin'

[hairballxavier]

*checks his post count*

ahoy mighty captain!

matey, ye have posts to spare, yer treasury be rich with'm. i say put yer bullion with the true conservative 'o 2012, Sarah Louise Palin and shove all yer chips in the middle 'o the table.

i'll give ye 1:1 odds, because ye must remember, america be a conservative country...hell, ye should be givin' me 2:1 odds, to make it a fair wager.

*nod nod*

- MeadHallPirate

^

I betcha think that.

[WarOnIgnorance]

ahoy oh mighty mods and admins!

me suggestion be this; put some system in place so sig bets can take place o'er some 'o the issues we discuss here.

it would add a feelin' 'o fun and mirth to our more heated debates.

say, fer instance, Forplay says that Sarah Palin will be president in the 2012 elections. i then, could wager 1000 'o me post count total against his that she wouldn't.

'tis just a suggestion.

aye.

- MeadHallPirate

A combination of vBCredits and vBookie would do the trick:

[vBC] vBCredits v2.0.0 (vB3.8.x) (Virtual Points) - vBulletin.org Forum

vBookie for vBulletin 4 - vBulletin.org Forum

It would be one helluva effort to set it up though.

[imported_Speakeasy]

That'd be neat, but it'd certainly be up to one of the more technical admins to see if it could be implemented at all.

Either way, people are incredibly bad at predicting anything around here, so it'd always be the safe bet to bet against what they say.

[soot]

Either way, people are incredibly bad at predicting anything around here, so it'd always be the safe bet to bet against what they say.

So what you're saying is that people are usually pretty good at making predications?

You've got me more confused than Pram did.

[imported_Speakeasy]

So what you're saying is that people are usually pretty good at making predications?

You've got me more confused than Pram did.

Yea, I guess that was one of those "this statement is false" sorta things, haha.

[MeadHallPirate]

That'd be neat, but it'd certainly be up to one of the more technical admins to see if it could be implemented at all.

Either way, people are incredibly bad at predicting anything around here, so it'd always be the safe bet to bet against what they say.

ahoy Speakeasy,

so, what say ye then me friend?

ye sit on the bridge, along with the other officers 'o USPO, so only ye knows what be possible.

i tell ye, mate, i think this will go a long ways to keepin' things a bit more reasonable ondeck, fer if one makes one 'o these "mark my word" kinda statements, then they can lift anchor and head to the CASINO part 'o USPO and make thar wager.

it would add a sportin' element to USPO, aye?

- MeadHallPirate

[Disillusioned_1]

The house ... err mods ... get a cut right?

Its an interesting idea, I don't know anything about implementing it though. I suppose it would work best as a polling-type post where you'd be allowed to bet something. Of course, who would decide who 'won'? For example what if someone says Palin will run for president, but she doesn't, but eventually she's picked as VP and accepts ... would that really be 'losing' the bet since she was running but in an unconventional way? Half the bets on here are around gray issues, we can't even decide the 'correct' answer on the math problem.

[MeadHallPirate]

The house ... err mods ... get a cut right?

Its an interesting idea, I don't know anything about implementing it though. I suppose it would work best as a polling-type post where you'd be allowed to bet something. Of course, who would decide who 'won'? For example what if someone says Palin will run for president, but she doesn't, but eventually she's picked as VP and accepts ... would that really be 'losing' the bet since she was running but in an unconventional way? Half the bets on here are around gray issues, we can't even decide the 'correct' answer on the math problem.

ahoy Disllusioned_1,

the best example i can give fer a wager that would be clear and unambiguous would be the mirthful thread that i had much fun on by a swabby named Meritorious (i think that 'twas his name). in 2007, he had a "fred thompson will be president/mark my words" thread, aye?

he stated this in a thunderous, "its all by a fait accompli" sorta way. others here on USPO joined the chorus.

i'd have loved to bet a thousand post counts on this topic that Mr. Thompson would fall asleep at the helm and be ushered off the decks 'o the election, which 'o course be exactly what happened to lazy Fred.

i'd give the officers 'o USPO discretion to decide on how each bet turned out.

- MeadHallPirate

[CYDdharta]

I discussed this with a few USPOL admins. We feel the technical challenges and the potential repercussions are insurmountable. There’s no way to automate such a system, and no good will come from manually manipulating fields, and such manipulation may adversely impact the search function. Additionally, it’s likely to increase the number of thoughtless posts (smiles, “I know you are but what am I” and the like), as members try to bulk up their post counts to make wagers. For these reasons, we’ve decided this idea is not worth further investigation.