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Clarity or personal opinion....-How many times will the HUBDUB police edit this question by 4-30-08?

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Inaccurate initial likelihoods. They're given as 99:1 in favor of an edit, whereas a quick tally of questions around a month old suggests realistic starting odds would be in the 30-60% in favour range.

Background:

How many times will this question be edited with ZERO input from the question creator? Will HUBDUB decree that this is not a question that fits the "proper" mold for structure? Will it somehow be deemed unclear? Will content be added to the question that was purposely left out? Will the creators intent be ignored and substituted with something that HUBDUB decides is the intent of the question wording?

For the record (unless this is also edited)...the original question wording is as follows: "Clarity or personal opinion....-How many times will the HUBDUB police edit this question by 4-30-08?"


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Voided

At least once
99%
none
1%
Voided Tue 25th Mar 2008 3:19pm PDT

Suspend date: None

Initial likelihoods: At least once: 99%, none: 1%

Action history:

Created Tue 25th Mar 2008 9:02am PDT by heyy_joe
Voided Tue 25th Mar 2008 3:19pm PDT by tomg[Admin]: Inaccurate initial likelihoods. They're given as 99:1 in favor of an edit, whereas a quick tally of questions around a month old suggests realistic starting odds would be in the 30-60% in favour range.

Suspend date: None
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Predictions (4)

4 predictions

41 weeks ago
gingerboi predicted At least once (H$100 at 42%)
41 weeks ago
kruijs[Power User] predicted none (H$100 at 58%)

Comments (9)

  1 heyy_joe
Sometimes a question may be created a certain way, not because the author is ignorant, but with the intent to generate more interest. This is completely ignored and replaced with a mundane routine wording...without the author ever being consulted.....
posted 41 weeks ago
  2 rohan
OOO... frustration

:-)
posted 41 weeks ago
  3 heyy_joe
I see my original 99% yes figure is already going down..... will this question NOT be edited at all now simply because I dared them too? lol
posted 41 weeks ago
  4 shadowfax
heyy_joe, I feel your consternation but as this question is worded, there should be no reason to edit imho.
perhaps it will be void for esoteric reasons, but editing does not seem necessary. (I wager...)
posted 41 weeks ago
where are the choices to vote for "clarity" and/or "personal opinion"?
posted 41 weeks ago
Of course there is no suspend date -- maybe an admin can EDIT that in??? :)
posted 41 weeks ago
  7 kruijs[Power User]
no. that is not needed, jenni. Time frame is stated in the Q itself ;)
posted 41 weeks ago
  8 shadowfax
yea, there I was, trying to make a quick quid on this and it has to up and get itself void for all the
right reasons. Well researched, inarguable, concise conclusion.
suppose I'll try to make a Maggie elsewhere.
posted 41 weeks ago
  9 heyy_joe
Personally, I don't believe a tally of other questions has the slightest relevance. The projected initial likelihood of 99% in favor is based on the likelihood of THIS question only. Period. This was not an average likelihood question. HUBDUB has voided this simply to avoid proving me correct!
posted 41 weeks ago

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