On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Alex Smith wrote: > On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 09:58 -0700, Ed Murphy wrote: >> ais523 wrote: >> >>> Also, I have a much better idea. Get the PNP to join the contest and >>> make a guess that's the amount it's distributing, immediately before the >>> distribution (maybe in the same message?) >> >> Anyone tries any funny stuff gets slapped with an equity case, hard. > > Hmm... manipulating the count struck me as being the entire intent of > the contest. At least, it looked that way to me. Maybe the contract > should make the intent of how the contest should work clearer, to save > much grief down the line?
I agree; my own assumption was that the contract foresaw and expected what anyone familiar to Agora should understand: that manipulating the result was fundamental to contest play. -goethe