I know how we can make the cubing community EXPLODE

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Billabob said:
Horrific idea, it won't "grow" the community, just continue the trend of turning everything into a business sucking the soul out of everything. Gambling is a terrible thing and it would be a huge mistake to center our hobby around something like that
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Exactly, look at cricket, it used to be such a wonderful sport, but then betting came along and ruined it.
 
i'd say that would deter loads people with a passion for cubing away, and give people chances at getting a gambling addiction, and bring people with addictions, which would be a terribly thing to happen, people with addictions need help getting out of them, not more chances to add fuel to the fire.

but i think it wouldn't even explode it, it was probably bring lots of people who feel depressed, and depressed people usually aren't the nicest, compared to the cubing community who is a very friendly and helpful place, that would plant toxicity, and probably ruin loads of the good things about cubing.

and cube companies may be infected by this trait, and try and abuse their customers in all sorts of ways,

but does cubing need to explode? is it not good enough as this niche thing that has loads of very passionate people, with so much to do, and just so many good things about it, so lets not ruin it with gambing.
 
FenTheGoat said:
I found a way to make the cubing community EXPLODE in popularity, but it may not be the best/most favorable way.

Betting. It’ll 100% increase the amount of people that care about cubing. It may be strange to bet on an 8 year old, but I feel like it’s not the worst idea.

Idk, has cube betting ever been thought of before? Do you think it’s a good or bad idea? I feel like, if implemented right, it would be AMAZING. That could also make it so there is a higher prize pool at bigger comps like nats and worlds, and people could live on cubing from comp wins alone.
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how about polls, no money, just voting
 
Introducing gambling to a sport dominated by kids and young adults will get young people who are likely not as experienced with money addicted to gambling.

On top of that, people's prefrontal cortex don't fully develop until they are in their mid 20's, so this makes the potential addiction even worse, as the prefrontal cortex helps with making responsible decisions.
 
FenTheGoat said:
I don’t think it’s a good idea. And it’s not like kids would be able to gamble. Im just saying it would 100% grow the community
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It would grow a very bad community. If the kids can't gamble, but they're getting bet on, this makes no sense
It might also ruin the community, because parents don't want their kids exposed to gambling
 
CatSharked said:
It would grow a very bad community. If the kids can't gamble, but they're getting bet on, this makes no sense
It might also ruin the community, because parents don't want their kids exposed to gambling
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I was thinking it was more for only top cubers (like finals at worlds or nats) or something like that. Or completely separate this from the WCA. Like have a league like monkey league where it’s only top cubers. (That’s how I was thinking about it when I wrote the thread)

I know it sounds like I want this idea. I don’t, but I was just thinking about if something like this were to be implemented, how would it work?

I know it’s a bad idea, I would think it’s a bad idea if it was actually implemented. But I feel like there would be a way that it could be added that doesn’t seem bad. (Like betting on kids, people that no one knows about, etc…)
 
FenTheGoat said:
I was thinking it was more for only top cubers (like finals at worlds or nats) or something like that. Or completely separate this from the WCA. Like have a league like monkey league where it’s only top cubers. (That’s how I was thinking about it when I wrote the thread)

I know it sounds like I want this idea. I don’t, but I was just thinking about if something like this were to be implemented, how would it work?

I know it’s a bad idea, I would think it’s a bad idea if it was actually implemented. But I feel like there would be a way that it could be added that doesn’t seem bad. (Like betting on kids, people that no one knows about, etc…)
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If this was completely separate from the WCA, with only people that were okay with being bet on, this could work. The only issue is, it would attract gamblers instead of cubers, and it wouldn't really be cubing anymore.
 
CatSharked said:
It's fine if you are "betting" (without money) on records or something, but there shouldn't be a way to gamble and make money off of who will win competitions. Like @randomspeedcuber2023 said, it's not a gambling sport, and this would ruin competitions and make it way too competitive.

If NASA hosted speedcubing competitions on the Moon or Mars it would be cool, and there could be Moon WRs and Mars WRs.
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and video games could be played on diffrent gravities, and there could be new categories such as MOON-SM64 ANY%
 
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