Yes it was a private message
Anker Community Profile - Hidden / Open-Public Profile for Auction Events!
Now we have got this topic in limelight, being discussed widely, so let us see what happens.
As @ndalby states, this is illogical.
So that means it is rules you prefer not what everyone prefers.
Illogical. A low member can bid regardless right now.
Only if implemented which is incredibly difficult as you’d have to watch and remove every fake bid immediately to stop the immediate then outbid.
See above. You’d have to retrospectively remove the over-bidding with effectively random outcomes, you’d probably end up with those with real very high bucks winning, because they can and then have less than their last bid deducted to cancel the fake bids.
Does not exist. A low member just creates another account, they have nothing to lose after all.
You’re not making any sense here at all. Sorry.
Better to be fair with all bucks visible, and the simplest way is to make all profiles visible and folks just edit away anything they don’t want known, like location, name, etc.
Only if the referee at end of the game them replays the entire game and then decides someone cheated mid-way, then removed all of their subsequent causal results, then recomputed how everyone would act. Would require a perfect genius of a referee.
Correct.
You are totally 100% fully allowed to determine you own privacy.
You are not allowed to set yourself different rules and then call it fair.
You’re arguing basically you are deliberately shielding your PBs to, somehow, increase your chance of winning, when others have not hidden. That is the definition of unfair.
The definition of fair would be to all PBs visible.
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whatever you guys talk, makes it look illogical to me too!
There are differences in opinion, so be it. it is my opinion that keeping profile hidden is good, so whatever you write will make zero sense to me and to whomever thinks the same, sorry!
I know you are a technical person… does the below make sense to you?
Just writing the same things over and over and over will not change anything, things have to come from Anker Community Admin.
Not sure what this is??? I am not setting any rules for myself - using whatever is already available…
I have not ASKED anyone or everyone to show your POWERBUCKS. Just because anyone chooses to show your points and Powerbucks to everyone, you cannot use that "Pretext"to ask everyone to show their powerbucks… Completely illogical !
Hope sense prevails!
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You are entitled to privacy, make your online persona whatever you like from fully hidden to fully open. If anyone wanted to attack your privacy, I have your back!
You are arguing something else entirely, not about privacy, but using a per-user on/off ability to skew chances, that makes those who hide their PBs equal to someone who makes multiple accounts to drive up the bid knowing the winner loses PBs and the worst happens is they have the burner account gone. So you are arguing for bad behavior in what should be just a bit of light fun.
The issue is the Admins should not make a private profile public, there may be some valid reason to shield it. They probably don’t have in the discourse platform total control of what is private vs public.
One example way to make it fair is state the rules up front, people with hidden PBs are not allowed to bid at all. That’s a joke to provoke the notion that fairness requires a two-way street.
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Maybe if these kind of events can’t be managed officially they shouldnt take place.
Not sure why people find it so difficult to understand one simple thing… I dont want to show my powerbuck, and it is my preference.
I am not arguing anything here… just placing my opinion, not sure why you are getting so upset, just relax!
Any other auctions on eBay or had a recent School auction for items… no one shows thier bank accounts or assets? why change it here?
by the way, i liked this GIF 
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No other auction I’ve ever been part of requires bidders to prove they can afford, or declare what money they have, before they bid until it comes to paying for goods if won. If they can’t pay, they are banned from the auction house and the next highest bidder is offered the sale.
I don’t see why this suction on this site is any different.
It seems like things are moving away from the over inflation argument and turning into a witch hunt with the tone appearing that some believe they have the right to view others profiles.
No rules have been broken so i can’t see a problem here.
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Do you honestly not see that people will use this function to cheat?
How about we look at it the other way and have all profiles PB hidden from public view.
Officials make the final decision at the end of an auction.
If the winner doesn’t have the PB to fund the sale they are kicked off the forum and the next highest bidder is offered the sale until someone takes the offer.
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People need to have integrity, but then there will always be some with the tendency to cheat, that can happen all the time, so someone - in this case Anker Official has to adjudicate, i know it is a challenge,
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make it Crystal Clear is have the Solution implemented I suggested above with system deciding who has how many bucks and allow the user to bid
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This must be achievable as i belive you can only bid to the value of PBs in the powerdraw.
Perhaps auctions here need to be configured as the powerdraw page is rather than just open comment in a thread?
Does that make sense @Shenoy?
Or as all this has been churned before. maybe Anker just doesn’t see all this as a problem.
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That was how it was. Then the ability to hide profiles came in.
Around the same time, people got the option to get admin to change real name, avatar, etc, so they could, instead of hide everything for privacy reasons, just change their public name.
I am not even arguing for myself, it is just a sense of fairplay, I have not bid in the auctions for a while as I didn’t really want the item and sit back and watched. So I’m arguing about fairplay, not for me vs another. Rules, not winning.
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It was just intended as a bit of fun, and all profiles were public when it started. As nothing was hidden it was naturally self-policed. For some reason I felt it was always @Tank who won but that’s a feeling so probably wrong.
To then push it back on admins to invent something which can be solved by simply removing privacy, is taking it way off the original intention.
Just make all PBs public and let it rip. Easy. Done.
Note: I’d probably not want to bid as the thing they auction I’d probably not want. So it’s about fair play, not winning.
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This looks a better option, have it on PowerDraw kind of format, i think it falls more in line with the application discussed earlier, may be easier for Anker to implement.
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I think as the forum has moved on and is a different and much bigger beast, Anker needs to review its old processes.
Just because it used to work doesn’t mean its fit for purpose now.
If Anker wants this to be a serious forum for the masses (800k plus members i think), maybe they need to take it seriously.
As you, I’m not debating for any personal reason.
I don’t care if hiding PB is fair or not, i can’t see that anyone who has cheated would win.
I don’t see why these auctions should be any different to any other auction I’ve ever participated in.
And why others believe its wrong for someone to make a choice about their profile while not breaking any rules in doing do.
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I’ve been an espectador on past auctions and have noticed that some people over bid for the hell of it. Obviously their end goal is to have the winner spend more powerbucks and therefore drain their bucks account.
I think to combat that is to have any of ours mods review the auction at the end of it and whoever is deemed overbidding should be punished by having powerbucks taken from their account
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Anyway guys its 00:48 here in the UK, i need to get some beauty sleep. 
Have a great night/day wherever you are.
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Good call. Or just kicked off the forum.
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That escalated quickly lol
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