How can you be an honest broker for both parties?
Here we go again! How can I be honest to both parties? Easy, I'm not!
I don't work for the casinos! Neither do I work for the players.
I work for Bryan and my work needs to satisfy and is judged only by Bryan. The casinos are not part of my equation because I never have to take orders from them, directly nor indirectly, because I never take money from them directly enough for their influence to be an issue.
I know you have a history of getting people their money. But you also have a history of siding with the casinos ....
Oh, but which is it? Do I get people their money, or do I side with the casinos? Or maybe it just turns out that sometimes it goes one way and sometimes the other way. When it goes the player's way I "got them their money". When it goes the casino's way "I have a history of siding with the casinos". Maybe, just maybe, it's both and neither. Maybe that's just how it goes when you handle 250+ cases a year.
If you think you've got the juice to do a better job than I am doing I suggest you send Bryan your resum. I don't know if he's looking for a new point man on the PABs, I have no particular reason to believe he is, but you'll find out quickly enough.
If I worked for the people. By no means would i accept monies from their competition.
I
don't "work for the people". I work for Bryan, as previously stated. He is the one who evaluates my work performance, not the player and not the casinos. Frankly I think that's best for all concerned but you're certainly entitled to your own opinion
as long as you're not using it to damage the reputation of Casinomeister which it rather appears to me you are. What, if not that, is your point?
... you find some of them guilty and close their account here. And we can't get their closing aruments.
Years ago I worked in high tech and on one occasion I found myself in a meeting where the tech folks were pretty determined to tell the management folks how a certain management-related thing should be done. They had some muscle and they knew it because they were certainly trying to use it on that particular day.
The head of the company, by then a multi-millionaire (it was the early 80s), listened to the discussion, and then the argument, rage on for a couple hours. Eventually it was obviously his turn to weigh in on the subject. He waited and when the yackers had finally figured out it was time to be quiet he spoke.
"This is not a democracy," he said, and that was it! He glanced very meaningfully at the managers and in about ten seconds they got the message.
So the managers made their decision, we techs implemented it ... and you know what? The sky did not fall in! The thing worked itself out pretty well in the end and ... blah blah blah.
My point? It's not my job to present the PABs to you or anyone other than my aforementioned boss for approval, acceptance or even comment.
If the person involved in a PAB has final comments relevant to the case they
can be heard. I always offer to forward any final comments or statement they might have to the casino or to Bryan as they choose. Few do. Why? Because it is business, it is treated professionally, and it most certainly is not fodder for the message boards.
If we ban someone it's because we think it is the right thing to do. We
never do it spitefully or casually. We are
always cautious in using that power. And it is most certainly our right to exercise that power without your approval, or the approval of the general membership.
In the odd case where something has gone amiss there are clearly avenues the wronged person can pursue to correct them, as has recently been demonstrated in the Casino Club case (see
Casino Club - robot or...).
Again, you have better ideas? I'm sure you know Bryan's email address and/or how to send him a PM.
I will tell you this though. If you persist with your "Casinomeister sucks" stuff you're not going to be very welcome here. Your criticism is constructive you say? How so? What
is your point?
And last but not least I have this to offer: I've been in this business doing the forums-related job for over ten years. In that time I have often heard this "you take money from the casinos so you are obviously in a compromised situation and can't do your job properly" argument.
I suppose if you ignore the layers that separate me from the casinos and are ignorant of how the business really functions then in theory I suppose your line of reasoning appears to have merit. But it is only an appearance. In practice that line of thought has very, very little to do with the reality of the situation.
Sceptical? Just take a poll of how many industry people have spoken to me directly or could even pick me out of a line-up. Precious few I assure you. My distance from the industry folks is considerable, possibly even to my detriment.
If I have misunderstood your meaning or intentions please accept my apologies and feel free to clarify.