On 12/07/2021 20:49, Jason Cobb via agora-discussion wrote:
This fixes a quirk of selective-bidding auction where each bid amount can only be claimed by a single person. That's fine in normal auctions, but in a selective-bid auction, it means Alice can bid 5 coins on lot X and lot Y, but Alice can't bid 5 coins on lot X while Bob bids 5 coins on lot Y.Amend Regulation AM0 by, as a single amendment: { In the paragraph beginning "BIDDING:", deleting "specifying a number of the auction's currency as eir bid not equal to the bid of another player" After that paragraph, inserting the following paragraph: { EXCLUSIVITY: Bids are grouped into classes. Unless otherwise specified, all bids are in a single class. A bid CANNOT be made if, in the class it would be in, another bid already exists with the bid amount as the hypothetical bid. } } Amend Regulation AM5 by inserting the following as a new list item after the one starting with "Bidding messages": "One bid class exists for each lot, with bids falling into the class for the specified lot."
I'm not sure your amendment does anything to help here. All it allows is for different players to submit bids of equal amount as long as they're on different lots in a selective-bid auction. The bids are still given out to the Nth active bid, which is the part that is broken, at least to my understanding.
Also, the new paragraph could be construed as a universal prohibition against submitting a bid amount that anyone has ever submitted before. An "on that auction" or two in the new paragraph would probably cover that.
...actually, I just checked and the current regulation text fails to specify this as well. Not sure if that changes anything at this point, but we may as well fix that while we're here too.
I did know about this issue, but I kind of forgot about it. I intended a fix back in June, but I never resolved it, even though I think I could have (it had 1 support from Jason and 0 objections).
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