# Chronos and Betting **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chronos-and-betting/912992 **Category:** About This Message Board **Created:** [June 25, 2020, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chronos-and-betting/912992 "2020-06-25T14:59:03Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 4
### Author: ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo) #### Post date: [June 25, 2020, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chronos-and-betting/912992/4 "2020-06-25T15:12:51Z")
> [@Babale](#): > > Bets have been banned on the Dope for ages now Actually, I’ve just gone and looked at the rules in various parts of the Dope, and this seems to be something of an overstatement. There is nothing about betting in the [Registration Agreement, Rules, and FAQ](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/registration-agreement-rules-and-faq/823562/4). There is also nothing about betting in the Game Room’s [rules](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forum-rules-and-faq-read-this-first-updated-october-3rd-2014/438452/2). (That’s where the post appeared that @Chronos gave a warning to.) The only places where betting is explicitly forbidden, as far as I can tell, is in [Great Debates](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-rules-for-great-debates-and-elections-january-2020/845726/4) and in [Politics and Elections](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-rules-for-politics-and-elections-january-2020/845727/2). > [@](#): > > **No betting.** Gambling between posters in GD and Politics and Elections over debate outcomes or real world events is forbidden. In the past we’ve had posters use this as a rhetorical device to abuse other posters and accuse them of lacking the courage of their convictions. It’s a jerk move we have decided to no longer allow. I did not know, until today, that there was any “no betting” rule at the SDMB, and it seems that the rule was never explicitly applied anywhere outside those two forums. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chronos-and-betting/912992)._