Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story

Post by zbentley » Mon, Mar 16, 2026, 12:56 PM UTC

epolanski wrote: post #77

pjc50 wrote: post #46

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I'm assuming you've never read a news article before, because news articles routinely contain reported speech without having to provide extra evidence of that speech having taken place.

You're being dismissive and aggressive while dodging the questions. I routinely read the news, and I've been taught in school that critical reading involves doubting and focusing on facts, sources and proofs. No sources and verifiable proofs? No facts. Which is why the journalist put emphasis on his sources behind the missile attack: he knows how much sources and proofs are important. If you can fake screenshots, why…

Post by happytoexplain » Mon, Mar 16, 2026, 12:57 PM UTC

cannonpr wrote: post #66

fzil wrote: post #3

Man the moral degradation is off the charts. Prediction markets are easily the worst things to grace the internet by far and its not even close.

It can look bad, but this is just an aspect of human behavior en masse that we don’t normally get to see. A long time ago there was an incident on a military base. A man had gotten up on a building to commit suicide, and while the officers tried to convince him not to jump, the drafted soldiers gathered underneath and started chanting “jump, jump” because of a rule that said witnessing the suicide of a fellow soldier…

Post by ajross » Mon, Mar 16, 2026, 12:58 PM UTC

ambicapter wrote: post #78

ajross wrote: post #67

So, just to point it out: people don't get violent and criminal magically because they made a bet. They get violent and criminal to backstop a bet they can't cover . The story here isn't that horrible criminals are using Polymarket. It's that Polymarket bettors are overleveraged, and at the margin some of them turn to crime to avoid losing their shirts. We've all been looking around for the trigger for the market-cra…

This argument is sophistry, the nature of gambling is that gamblers over-leverage themselves compulsively.

Post by mattmaroon » Mon, Mar 16, 2026, 12:58 PM UTC

echoangle wrote: post #47

fzil wrote: post #3

Man the moral degradation is off the charts. Prediction markets are easily the worst things to grace the internet by far and its not even close.

It’s not even close to being the worst thing in my opinion. There are people driven into suicide by blackmailing them over social media and people selling murder for hire on the Darknet. Some death threats are pretty harmless compared to that, assuming that nothing actually happens (which is pretty likely in my opinion).

Post by qsera » Mon, Mar 16, 2026, 12:58 PM UTC

mpalmer wrote: post #40

colesantiago wrote: post #29

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Illegal or not, trying to ban it won't work. You'll just push it underground and it will get even worse. The cat is out of the bag.

Defeatist nonsense, and wrong. The US was regulating this until Trump. A friendly regulatory environment is the only way paying out these bets at scale is possible. "Pushing it underground" discourages the majority of bettors from using it, and that is a good thing.