By all of you! (I’m including myself in “you”)
I’ve been meaning to write this for at least a month now but kept putting it off. Please bare with me as this might turn into a ramble and surely will take a while to read through.
Yes this is about online casinos just give me a minute to work my way around the damn bush. Some know I’m a police officer. The other night our city was hit so hard by burglaries it almost made me embarrassed to know I was on duty when it happened. Basically we had a LARGE number of alarms go off at multiple businesses throughout the city. All were set off on purpose to cover while a number of specific business were hit (including a jewelry store, cvs pharmacy, and at&t). It occurred to me that if the bad guys team up, it is no way for any city or country to keep a lid on the crime/chaos. One of our biggest weapons against crime is the fact that we work as a team in conjunction with different levels of law enforcement / government and the bad guys are too busy killing each other.
These forums have been around longer than I’ve probably been alive so I hope my post isn’t taken out of place. We have such a great opportunity with these forums to change the way operators work but too many of us are at each other’s throats; which is odd because we all want to have fun and make money.
I don’t know how to fix it but all of us need to work on it. If the majority portion of these forums ban together then casinos WILL hear us when it’s time to hear us. For ex: If a player is truly shown to have been cheated then it would speak volumes if we all didn’t play there until the situation was resolved. Obviously this will require us placing our trust in the leaders of CM. It would be too much of a chance for mistakes if we were taking each other’s word on who was cheated.
Some standards do need to exist in favor of any casino that has yet to be rogued or on the warning list. For ex: if a casino states in their terms and conditions that you can’t place bets on number 7 when playing roulette or winnings will be confiscated…..O well, you lose. Read the terms. We should be holding players to this without exception. It sucks, it would be a stupid rule, and as such maybe a warning for the casino should be issued by CM. But too many players take up for players who registration shows (01/2012), and clearly broke a T&C. Once we start holding players to reading the damn terms then we can start holding casino’s to the more blatant cheating / attempts to steal players money.
The important focus needs to be us sticking together as much as possible. I’m not sure where winning at a rogue or hated casino fits in. To be honest if I won large amounts and was paid from a rogue / hated casino it would be hard for me to walk away no matter what was said on the forums. We should respect that as forum members. And I’m sure most if not all would have trouble walking away from a casino that just paid you 20K because everyone else was having troubles.
So many important threads turn into needless fights. The casinos know that we aren’t united. Most of the time I keep thinking screw it I’m not affected by this drama. In the end though if we stick with each other and changes are made in the way casino’s operate then we all win. As of right now we are all cheating each other.
I’ve been meaning to write this for at least a month now but kept putting it off. Please bare with me as this might turn into a ramble and surely will take a while to read through.
Yes this is about online casinos just give me a minute to work my way around the damn bush. Some know I’m a police officer. The other night our city was hit so hard by burglaries it almost made me embarrassed to know I was on duty when it happened. Basically we had a LARGE number of alarms go off at multiple businesses throughout the city. All were set off on purpose to cover while a number of specific business were hit (including a jewelry store, cvs pharmacy, and at&t). It occurred to me that if the bad guys team up, it is no way for any city or country to keep a lid on the crime/chaos. One of our biggest weapons against crime is the fact that we work as a team in conjunction with different levels of law enforcement / government and the bad guys are too busy killing each other.
These forums have been around longer than I’ve probably been alive so I hope my post isn’t taken out of place. We have such a great opportunity with these forums to change the way operators work but too many of us are at each other’s throats; which is odd because we all want to have fun and make money.
I don’t know how to fix it but all of us need to work on it. If the majority portion of these forums ban together then casinos WILL hear us when it’s time to hear us. For ex: If a player is truly shown to have been cheated then it would speak volumes if we all didn’t play there until the situation was resolved. Obviously this will require us placing our trust in the leaders of CM. It would be too much of a chance for mistakes if we were taking each other’s word on who was cheated.
Some standards do need to exist in favor of any casino that has yet to be rogued or on the warning list. For ex: if a casino states in their terms and conditions that you can’t place bets on number 7 when playing roulette or winnings will be confiscated…..O well, you lose. Read the terms. We should be holding players to this without exception. It sucks, it would be a stupid rule, and as such maybe a warning for the casino should be issued by CM. But too many players take up for players who registration shows (01/2012), and clearly broke a T&C. Once we start holding players to reading the damn terms then we can start holding casino’s to the more blatant cheating / attempts to steal players money.
The important focus needs to be us sticking together as much as possible. I’m not sure where winning at a rogue or hated casino fits in. To be honest if I won large amounts and was paid from a rogue / hated casino it would be hard for me to walk away no matter what was said on the forums. We should respect that as forum members. And I’m sure most if not all would have trouble walking away from a casino that just paid you 20K because everyone else was having troubles.
So many important threads turn into needless fights. The casinos know that we aren’t united. Most of the time I keep thinking screw it I’m not affected by this drama. In the end though if we stick with each other and changes are made in the way casino’s operate then we all win. As of right now we are all cheating each other.
I didn't know you were an officer of the law! 
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There's nothing wrong with the idea of solidarity, used in the right sense/way changes can be made. It just may take time and patience. Look how long it took for CWC to change the wording (again) for the student clause. Baby steps, but maybe if complaints are handled in a friendly manner with a majority rules-type front of CM members...who knows, miracles do happen...And maybe the casinos who didn't make it on the CM awards who really want to make a difference and earn themselves a spot for next year will start listening to the players. They'll start becoming involved in the forum, interact with the players, actually listen and try to fix problems ( I know... DREAMING!). 
