Rules

Conduct

Each market has a comment thread where its outcome is discussed. Treat other users with respect:

• No insults or harassment.
• No spam.
• No impersonation of another person.

Market integrity

The price of a market is the probability its participants give each outcome. The following practices distort it and are not allowed:

• One person, one account. Holding several accounts means collecting the sign-up chips more than once and getting around the betting limit of each market.
• No coordination between users to move a price in a given direction, or to share the proceeds afterwards.
• No betting on a known result. Whoever learns the outcome before others is not forecasting.
• No markets opened to be resolved at will, including markets whose resolution criteria are written to be read conveniently later.

Enforcement

Breaking these rules leads to the suspension of the account. They are enforced as strictly as if real money were at stake, because the harm is the same: the price stops being credible. Vaticino may also remove comments, and any user can report a comment for review.

Suspended accounts

A suspended account cannot log in, bet, sell, propose markets or comment. Everything else stays as it was:

• Its chips remain in the account, frozen.
• Its positions stay in their markets, since removing them would move the price, and are paid to its balance when those markets resolve.
• The markets it opened run their course, and what it earns as their creator goes to its balance.
• Any debt stays on record.

A suspension can be lifted, and the account is then restored as it was left.