It references existing (and novel) work in economics and mechanism design, which might have been time-consuming to discover otherwise
It distills a technical paper, which is a valuable service that is usually underfunded (academic institutions comparatively incentivise novel and surprising insights)
The insights provided are quite action-guiding, and caused me (jacobjacob) to have ideas for how one can experiment with new kinds of forecasting tournaments that use a threshold-mechanism to change participant incentives
We (jacobjacob and Ben Pace) decided to award $250 (out of the total bounty of $800) to this answer. It does several important things.
It references existing (and novel) work in economics and mechanism design, which might have been time-consuming to discover otherwise
It distills a technical paper, which is a valuable service that is usually underfunded (academic institutions comparatively incentivise novel and surprising insights)
The insights provided are quite action-guiding, and caused me (jacobjacob) to have ideas for how one can experiment with new kinds of forecasting tournaments that use a threshold-mechanism to change participant incentives
I’ll PM you for details about payment.