Taking a later risky answer seems very much as you suggest. They need to get answers in quickly.. and probably not by showing what others have already voted/predicted (which it seems to do at the moment, I can't see the guesses).
Some of the self-posted questions are pretty awful... partially bound, or vague.
Personally, I can't see anyone chipping out $500 to get a bunch of interweb users to guess the Length of the King of China's Nose.... even in cases (such as voting) where it can be useful. For a lot of things I can get the info for free by visiting Betfair/Oddschecker for an rough idea of the wisdom of the crowds (works well for politics/ents polls at least).
Course, these sites also useful for making a few quid out of the foolish occasionally (like the 4-1 odds I got on Bush winning the 2004 election at 1am UK time, based on one Al Gore state win, which he was always going to win).
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Date: 2008-05-16 06:26 pm (UTC)Some of the self-posted questions are pretty awful... partially bound, or vague.
Personally, I can't see anyone chipping out $500 to get a bunch of interweb users to guess the Length of the King of China's Nose.... even in cases (such as voting) where it can be useful. For a lot of things I can get the info for free by visiting Betfair/Oddschecker for an rough idea of the wisdom of the crowds (works well for politics/ents polls at least).
Course, these sites also useful for making a few quid out of the foolish occasionally (like the 4-1 odds I got on Bush winning the 2004 election at 1am UK time, based on one Al Gore state win, which he was always going to win).