orangeindiana
Dormant account
- Joined
- Mar 31, 2005
- Location
- Texas
Okay, let me build up to this...
I've got a question that I'd like some input on... I work in a church (about to head to seminary, actually, for ordained ministry), and gambling has been an interesting topic to me because of the heated discussion it can inspire among Christians and other faith groups. While I don't intend to elaborate on my own personal conclusions at the time, obviously, if I'm here and playing some, I think there's an "okay" way to gamble.
At any rate, something that concerns me is how online gambling can fuel those who are predisposed to develop gambling addictions in a way that brick and mortar casinos can't, due to factors like increased availability and the less "real" feeling that using money online can create.
This leads to my first question. Having joined some 20 casinos by now, I've noticed that some claim to have precautions that can help detect compuslive gambling trends. Are any of you aware of how this works? The only casinos I remember offhand that mention this are Starluck/Planetluck, but I know there's others (I think I remember seeing it on some MG sites as well). I'm curious as to how they work and what protection they provide, since I suspect it's not much, partially because the casinos need to protect their assets from fraud.
Okay, second question. Suppose someone feels that they have an addiction and they decide they need to permanently cut themselves off from online casinos. Simply asking casinos to delete your account is often ineffective, I've found, both through reading threads and reviews of other casinos, and trying it myself at a few places that I don't continue to gamble at just to see how they would respond (Casino Craze, for example, promised to erase my account when I wrote them claiming that I was worried about developing an addiction -- I'm not, but it was for investigative sake. A month later, my account still works just fine there). But what if you did something to make the casinos want to reject you? I suppose an easy way would be to make a credit card payment and then cancel it through the card company -- somebody here knows the proper term for that, I'm sure. But it seems like that may carry some undesirable side effects with it, perhaps a bad note on a credit report or something similar. But what if you wrote a casino or client and asked to be identified as a bonus abuser? As I understand it, lists of abusers are circulated openly, and once you're on it, that's pretty much the end of things. Is that the case? And would there be some other considerations to worry about -- negative results from that which would reach beyond the world of online casinos?
I'd like to hear anything anyone here has to say about this; with the growth of the internet, I have a feeling that my place in the ministry may bring this issue up at some point, and it'd be nice to know both some opinions and possible options for those who may not be able to game safely. And in any case, it's interesting.
I've got a question that I'd like some input on... I work in a church (about to head to seminary, actually, for ordained ministry), and gambling has been an interesting topic to me because of the heated discussion it can inspire among Christians and other faith groups. While I don't intend to elaborate on my own personal conclusions at the time, obviously, if I'm here and playing some, I think there's an "okay" way to gamble.
At any rate, something that concerns me is how online gambling can fuel those who are predisposed to develop gambling addictions in a way that brick and mortar casinos can't, due to factors like increased availability and the less "real" feeling that using money online can create.
This leads to my first question. Having joined some 20 casinos by now, I've noticed that some claim to have precautions that can help detect compuslive gambling trends. Are any of you aware of how this works? The only casinos I remember offhand that mention this are Starluck/Planetluck, but I know there's others (I think I remember seeing it on some MG sites as well). I'm curious as to how they work and what protection they provide, since I suspect it's not much, partially because the casinos need to protect their assets from fraud.
Okay, second question. Suppose someone feels that they have an addiction and they decide they need to permanently cut themselves off from online casinos. Simply asking casinos to delete your account is often ineffective, I've found, both through reading threads and reviews of other casinos, and trying it myself at a few places that I don't continue to gamble at just to see how they would respond (Casino Craze, for example, promised to erase my account when I wrote them claiming that I was worried about developing an addiction -- I'm not, but it was for investigative sake. A month later, my account still works just fine there). But what if you did something to make the casinos want to reject you? I suppose an easy way would be to make a credit card payment and then cancel it through the card company -- somebody here knows the proper term for that, I'm sure. But it seems like that may carry some undesirable side effects with it, perhaps a bad note on a credit report or something similar. But what if you wrote a casino or client and asked to be identified as a bonus abuser? As I understand it, lists of abusers are circulated openly, and once you're on it, that's pretty much the end of things. Is that the case? And would there be some other considerations to worry about -- negative results from that which would reach beyond the world of online casinos?
I'd like to hear anything anyone here has to say about this; with the growth of the internet, I have a feeling that my place in the ministry may bring this issue up at some point, and it'd be nice to know both some opinions and possible options for those who may not be able to game safely. And in any case, it's interesting.