"None of these have the potential to be a self-sustaining business"

Re:"None of these have the potential to be a self-sustaining... by acgourley on Wednesday June 20, 2007 @04:39PM (#29642)

It's times like these when I want to build a website that tracks predictions and promises. Everything from some engineer ranting to a politicians campaign promises. Rank the top promises made in one place, then rank the top promises proved right / wrong due to events or some time limit imposed. Not a business idea so much as a fun website to run.

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Re:"None of these have the potential to be a self-sustaining... by iloveyouocean on Thursday June 21, 2007 @05:05PM (#29901)

I wonder if a site like this would encourage people to structure their predictions with qualifiers and clauses in such a way as to give them the maximum chance of being proven "correct". Also, I wonder if this site would encourage people to make their 'prediction' be more about explaining their beliefs about the present rather than guessing at data/outcomes that will occur in the future.

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Re:"None of these have the potential to be a self-sustaining... by byrneseyeview on Thursday June 21, 2007 @09:58AM (#29811)

You may want to consider implementing [Idea Futures](http://hanson.gmu.edu/ifextropy.pdf).

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Re:"None of these have the potential to be a self-sustaining... by mynameishere on Thursday June 21, 2007 @09:15AM (#29804)

That idea is highly thievable. Done right, I could see it being a good go-to site for news in general.

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