On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 11:09 AM, comex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 1:05 PM, ais523 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 11:02 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote: >>> You know, it seems to me that your interpretation of it should more >>> plausibly be written "SELL (5VP - AGAINST x 3)". >> Well, does that allow the buying of 1 vote or 3? That isn't at all clear >> from that. > > The Vote Market only allows buying as many votes as the seller has. > It is impossible to only sell one without a specially engineered sell > ticket.
Reading the contract again today, I think I agree with you. It's clear to me now what happened: BobTHJ voted "SELL (5VP - AGAINST) x 5". This amounted to 5 votes of "SELL (5VP - AGAINST)", which resulted in 5 sets of conditional votes, each set resolving to (endorse filler x 5 / AGAINST x 1); and 5 corresponding sell tickets. If we charitably assume that ais523 succeeded in filling the first of those 5 sell tickets, then BobTHJ's votes were, in order, (endorse ais523) x 5, AGAINST x 4. Since BobTHJ's voting limit was 5, the 4 AGAINST votes were invalid, and ais523's first resolution of the decision was correct. -root
