OOTS death pool (thread #4)

[Silver Swift]

Yeah... that's troublesome. (Some people didn't realize it was fake at first last time!) There doesn't really seem to be anything in the rules as to how to handle that. Suggestions? What are the options? I guess basically as I see it, they're:

1. Just count it
2. Count it, you can roll it back later
3. Some sort of waiting period if we think it might be an illusion?
4. ???

Yuck. Right now I'm leaning towards #1, but if people have a preference, or other suggestions, well, I'm open to ideas.

The problem with #1 is that you have to draw a line between something that is obviously fake and something that might be plausible. Like you said, some people didn't realize it was fake last time, if that same situation comes up again, should we count it?

I would prefer a combination of 2 and 3, count it right away (so people can make new bets) but don't update the first post until we are reasonably sure it wasn't fake. That way you get the advantages of 2, but potentially save some work updating and rolling back the first post.