Admin Note: Complaint Section

[Casinomeister]

To cut down on frivolous complaints being posted in our forum, only "Fully Registered" users and above are allowed to post in this section. Newbie posters are encouraged to submit their complaints via the "Pitch-a-Bitch" form located here http://www.casinomeister.com/problems.php

If you are not a "Fully Registered" user, and you would like to become one, please check out the Forum Rules for details.
http://www.casinomeister.com/forums/forum_rules.php

Again this just affects the newbies signing up - if you have any problems with this or questions, please let me know.

If you are a newbie and have already posted a complaint in the complaint section that is still outstanding, you'll still have the ability to post there until it has been resolved. I'm not going to block you out of your own thread.

[Pinababy69]

I think it's a great idea. While it may increase your workload a bit (ahhh, you gots lots of time anyway right?), it will stop first time posters from posting a complaint that may not even be valid, or is really nothing more than someone "venting". I like it.

[tim5ny]

Excellent idea Bryan in theory. Let's see how many first time posters just use the Online Casinos thread to voice their complaints though.

[Pinababy69]

Originally Posted by tim5ny

Excellent idea Bryan in theory. Let's see how many first time posters just use the Online Casinos thread to voice their complaints though.

Sure Tim, give em ideas.

[tim5ny]

Originally Posted by Pinababy69

Sure Tim, give em ideas.

lol! Yeah! I know.. a real brainstorm!

[thelawnet]

This seems somewhat problematic in that people search for casinos before playing, and if they read people's complaints on the forum, they might be better in a position to judge whether a casino is a good bet, so to speak.

It appears that the net effect of this is to reduce the effect of bad behaviour by casinos because much of it will be handled behind the scenes.

So it's less risky for casinos to rip-off players.

[VayCayMom]

I disagree with thelaw, only because of my own experience with SOME people, newbies in any forum tend to make complaints before they go back to check the facts or before they understand the issue, some people NEVER read instruction manuels either!

[Simmo!]

Originally Posted by thelawnet

This seems somewhat problematic in that people search for casinos before playing, and if they read people's complaints on the forum, they might be better in a position to judge whether a casino is a good bet, so to speak.

It appears that the net effect of this is to reduce the effect of bad behaviour by casinos because much of it will be handled behind the scenes.

So it's less risky for casinos to rip-off players.

But conversely, if they see a complaint by a more experienced player, they are more likely to take that seriously than one from a total newbie or bonus hunter who may/may not have fallen foul of the T&C's. I think also that one of the keys here is to allow Bryan to give more time to the more serious complaints and those from members who value the forum.

Where there is a potential downside however is that the experienced players know not to play the Cloud casinos of this world so they may be hidden from the limelight. It may be an idea to push the accredited & rogue casino sections more to compensate.

[pokeraddict]

Originally Posted by thelawnet

This seems somewhat problematic in that people search for casinos before playing, and if they read people's complaints on the forum, they might be better in a position to judge whether a casino is a good bet, so to speak.

It appears that the net effect of this is to reduce the effect of bad behaviour by casinos because much of it will be handled behind the scenes.

So it's less risky for casinos to rip-off players.

But the value of protecting the reputations of legit casinos is going to be a great result and I doubt any room is going to screw a player just because the players may not be able to post about it at Casinomeister. How do they really know if a player posts here, want to post here, knows about this place or will find it one day? If they are going to screw a player (or as in many cases just have a CS issue or misunderstanding) it is going to happen with or without this rule.

[thelawnet]

Originally Posted by pokeraddict

But the value of protecting the reputations of legit casinos is going to be a great result

Well perhaps to the casino, but even legit casinos do bad things sometimes.

Just to clarify, I assume that by *post* this means 'create a new thread'?

If there is an ongoing issue, it would make sense that new people should be able to respond to it.