The August 31 Market Was Dead-on-Arrival

Aenews and BeegYoshi criticized Polymarket for creating a dead-on-arrival market.

They pointed to multiple past disputes where Polymarket had explicitly ruled against DOA markets and made clear their stance.

_Rice and BeegYoshi also noted that the second clarification was excluded from the August 31 market. Since clarifications normally apply to all markets within the timeframe, its omission suggested Polymarket anticipated even greater controversy.

Several users voiced frustration over losing money from Polymarket's inconsistency.

Summary

Users criticized Polymarket for creating a DOA market, applying rules inconsistently, and omitting the second clarification from the August 31 market.

Coming Up

Next we look at how users criticized the clarification as badly timed.