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Everyone stating that gambling will affect someone's image in the society so this is actually happened with you?

For me it happened once why are you gambling its a sin in our life I replied its my wish I can do what ever I wanted.

In my personal life, Very influential views of the community or people around when I play gambling. If you think logically, there is nothing I want to do. But this is a bad thing when people know I am gambling. That's why I don't want many people to know about my gambling activities. Let me personally live this.

You can always be anonymous when playing it online so why the bother? But if you are referring to society you can surely never escape from the cold look of some people, like in the old saying you surely can not please all people, And even if there are people that are very judgemental when it comes to gambling there are people that really don't mind if you are into it, And I guess gambling is now very common in the society nowadays and particularly there are many establishments now that would surely let you bet, And I think that gamblers are now well received and that is why there are certain people that portray themselves as professionals in this industry.

Gambling as a side activity is okayish as long as you also wanna work hard to earn. Else it will lead to depression. There are gamblers who are "gamblers" and are nothing. They just carry only that single identity. Then that becomes a problem. As long as you have self control and track what you are doing, nothing can harm you ;) well, even watching po*n is sin, how many people follow it? No saying to sin but you know what I mean :)

That's normal - either they care for you or look at you as not the type of person should be accompanied with. As for me, why should I care for others view if I know to myself that I'm a responsible gambler? My money came from my own pocket, came from my own work so I will do whatever I like as long as it won't affect the allocation for my personal spendings.

It really happens. So up to us if we will be affected to that or not. We know ourselves more than them.

I voted for no because I keep my gambling habits to myself only my wife has a idea but no solid proof
People think that if I gamble on a game that I have a disease so I like to keep my personal vices to myself.
I would like to consider my gambling to that of a drug addict who doesnt tell anyone so he can continue to get his fix  :D even if I only wager small amounts

Gambling can only affect your personal life if you let it do, gambling is really addictive and it can lead one to do foolish things like selling personal properties and getting involved in debts in order to use such money to place bets.

If one gambles responsibly and uses a minimal amount of money to bet, keeping his personal life away from it as well as not incurring any debts, then there is no way it can affect such persons personal life nor destroy his reputation.
We need a level of control with this things or else we'll be doing ourselves more harm than good.

I've seen two possible outcomes from gambling;

1. Successful gamblers that have managed to turn an impressive profit are often regarded with praise, since they have successfully turned the odds to their favor and made off with a good amount of money.
2. Problem gamblers, who are unable to control their gambling and threaten the safety of their family for the thrill of gambling are typically treated with disdain. If you can't control yourself, you have no business playing a game of self control.

Personally, I have been praised for my success as a poker player. However, I know this would be quite the opposite if I wasn't as successful as I have been.

At first when I first met the game, it was in a casino in my city, which was something spectacular, and as expected it was followed, had gains and losses, only at a time if it affected a large loss that I had , although I didn't stop thinking about it and why I failed.

On one occasion I went with friends, and I saw that they had my same economic situation, and they lost much more than me, but I saw them happy, it did not affect them, it was incredible, I asked them why it does not affect you? You know that that will take away certain things that you can acquire right now, they told me almost unanimously, that they enjoyed it, money is sought, worked, found, we may lose, but in no time we will recover the lost and we will be positive, meanwhile we enjoy it, learn and try the best strategies.

I understood that somehow they are right, everything is an apprenticeship, although I still think, I would not be able to bet as much as they do today.

Some people will feel Basic Gambling is bad (in the sense of view).

Because, in my country if there is someone playing gambling. That means the person is bad, unemployed, there is no work without thinking about the results obtained in playing gambling.

So no wonder, if people play gambling without having to tell anyone. Because negative impacts will arise on the person.

I am not saying about the gambling losses or profits,it depends on the users who gambling.But when we saying we are gambling how it affects us in your society.

I have not long plunged into betting and neighbors around me did not know that I tried betting, because I and my husband very keep it a secret from family and neighbors.

I totally agree with you that everything we personally do is our right, as long as it does not harm others and violates the law, then we have the right to do whatever we want.

So it means it does affect your personal life that is why you keep it as secret.But when you like that thing to be done why afraid of others?

Everything that we are doing will surely affect our reputation or image in society. As for gambling, there are different beliefs about it, for some it's okay, but for others, it's not. If you are a gambler, you shouldn't bother yourself with the opinion of others. As long as you know that you are not violating laws or doing anything bad that may hurt or cause a negative effect on the people around you, especially those who are close to you.

Gambling is a personal decision. You are using your own money. You have a control on what to do with it. If you are using someone else money or if gambling becomes your addiction, then don't be surprised by the negative comments you might hear. But if you are sure to yourself that you are handling your finances well, then I think there's nothing wrong about it.

Personally, I don't always involve myself in gambling. It's not because I see it as a sinful activity, but it's just my choice. Like what you have written, we can do whatever we have wanted.

in my family and friends? No, but there are some people(neighbor, church people,) who judge me for gambling but I could careless what they think of me
as long as my relationship with the people I care about is fine I will continue to gamble but the moment gambling start affecting it
I will stop immediately. stopping will not be that easy since gambling is like a daily routine for me but I won't risk my reputation just
for gambling.

OP if you change your point of view you might consider gambling as a fun game while not thinking too much of how the society will gonna judge you. And also, online gambling will not affect your image if you are inside of your house playing it alone. Local gambling may affect your life while you are protecting your reputation and i know a lot of people but guess what, they didn't bother anyway as long as they enjoy what they were doing.

I do the things what I love to do no matter if it is gambling or flirting ut the subject of this thread which affected your personal reputation at some point of your life but no matter did you cared about it or not.

Nope. I generally don't tell people I gamble, and some of my friends don't like the fact that I gamble, but for the most part gambling hasn't changed my reputation much at all. I do know irresponsible gamblers who have had their reputations changed due to gambling more money than they can afford to lose, though. My parents likely care the most that I gamble, though they also know I'm mostly a responsible person and they don't worry too much about it as a result.

Yes, that happened to me once in the past. But at that time I was still young and didn't really care about other people's views. Btw, since I was growing up, I realized that people's views of us are important. I no longer expose my gambling activities so that no one else will know. I keep my habit a secret.

No. Whether you are in gambling or not, "society" will always have an opinion of you. Now, that is up to you if you let their opinions affect you. Don't mind about your public image unless you are some traditional politician.

:D

Nonetheless, you are the protagonist of your own life no matter what the society gonna tell you, gambling, fame, money, sex, reputation it doesn't matter cause at the end of the day you are still the one that will gonna make your decision no matter what it is because it is all part of our life. The most important thing is that no matter how hard the lesson in your life at least you learned.

No. Coz no one knows. Bwahaha  ;D

That's one of the benefits of playing online. Though I don't consider myself a gambler since I only dabbled a bit, I can imagine people I know giving a dirty look had they found me in a casino or out on the streets playing whatever gambling is available.

Now that I've mentioned that. Maybe the number of dedicated gamblers are actually larger since people can play without even their families knowing.

No way, I always know what I'm doing and never lost money that I can't afford to lose
I always gamble for fun and never lost control, so my reputation is untouched and you guys should not listen to another people, unless you're addicted

I kept it a secret because I don't think this is something that should be told.
People's perception of gambling players is bad.
we cannot dispel negative views from the public which have been around for a long time to gambling players.

This is only true if you are a responsible gambler and you are not spending beyond your limits, which is also true from my end. So there's no ruined reputation even if you gamble from time to time. A gambler's reputation is only being ruined if he is affecting someone else's life already or has debts that has never been paid or any of that sort.

No not at all as long as you are not making a loan so you can use it to gamble, and you are not ruining your family and your work, it will not affect your reputation at all, every one of us had a vice it could be drinking gambling but as long as you are moderate there will be no problem at all.

Most of the people surrounding me doesn't know that I was into gambling, because I use cryptocurrency. Few people who are close to me know that I was into gambling. In specific whenever I feel bad after a loss I used to share it to them. They are the one who console me, don't think much about it. Someday we'll get a chance of winning.

Not really, because I only see gambling as a part of entertainment only so it's a normal thing to do.
Nothing really complex, we're just doing it because we wanted to be entertained but for others, it really changes the personality especially their human behavior.

Don't do gambling if you lack dedication on what you're doing, if you think it's a sin then you're wrong because you have a different perspective on gambling. You should see it as entertainment purposes only, if you have enough money then it's fine but if you're using your money for daily routine then it will literally change and be an emotional person.

Well if you are in a profession where people are looking up to you as a teacher, then it will ruin your reputation if they know that you are into gambling if you are a professional and you are into gambling better confine your gambling online in your room, so people will not know it.

No, it's not harming or affected my reputation, as long as you keep it yo yourself and moderate it, you know your priority and your family, you are ok with it, the key is moderation, do not spend more time and only gamble what you can afford to lose.

There's more to life than gambling, and if you have a good control people will admire you for this.

It depends on your work and your background if you are a preacher or a law enforcer it will definitely harm your reputation but if you are an average guy, you can play all you want, just don't get too much of gambling, you will affect your personal reputation if you are a chronic gambler and you gamble all day and all night.

I rarely gamble, so it's not like I'm a regular and the people at the casino know or remember me, so the answer to your question is no.

in my case, my personal reputation is not affected, my friends and my family knows that I gamble just to have some fun and at a minimal time, and only with spare money, I don't have to explain this to other people as long as you place your family first and you have a good time management you are ok.

When we play offline gambling, and our neighborhood knows that we are gamblers, they will give a bad image to us. Usually, it's happening in a society which has a deep bond in that neighborhood. They will not permit their family to have a relationship with us, and I guess some of us have those experience.

People will see that a gambler has a bad temperament, cannot socialize with other people, and another bad word about gambling. They will say and ask us to stop gambling, and even they will advise us to leave gambling forever.

People will talk about playing gambling is a sin which we don't have to do for our life. I see in here, some of our people have got that bad image, but gladly, some of them can realize and slowly can leave the gambling forever.

Affected in what way?

If you mean that my public image is somehow stained simply because I gamble, I don't think so. Affected in such a way that I'm being labelled as a gambler, yes. But being a gambler does not necessarily mean you're a bad guy or one who's leading a good-for-nothing kind of like. From where I'm living, some frown at gamblers, some are gamblers themselves, while others do not care.

Gambling = sin is a wrong equation. But gambling while your children have nothing to eat, gambling with all your savings, gambling and getting drunk, gambling all the time, gambling until morning or very late at night, and so on are definitely a sin. I suppose gambling has earned a bad name due to a lot of undisciplined gamblers.

There could be reasons why you created such a topic, it's either you experienced this yourself, or you know someone who did.

Anyway, I'm the type of person who is an occasional gambler, from time to time, risks money that I can afford to lose. If ever I would be willing to progress more, I could, but I'm not addicted. I think people who are concerned about the outlook of their activities is that they may be seeking the approval of others. Imagine, if you don't have anything to prove to someone and you are just doing what you love and continuing what you do, the "personal" reputation wouldn't be technically considered.

People are concerned due to

• They are ashamed of what they are doing and wants to keep it to themselves
• Addiction is something they don't recognize yet or not acknowledged the problem he/she has
• They judge others and think other people judge them too.

The list above are the most common problems people concern themselves with that are not that important. If you are doing what you love, then go, but if you start bothering people, let's say you are a gambling addict and you start asking for money, then check yourself in the mirror and make sure that to re-analyze your decisions again.

This might help someone in need.

How would that happen?

If you win, you probably brag about it to friends. If you lose, you tell no one.

But I guess there are also the addicted people who will keep playing until they lose everything and they have no home to sleep it.... this is probably something that can't be hidden! ::)

The current result right now and I think only few people who voted than the replies.
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The majority of voters had said No, then, they are right. It can't affect your personal reputation because gambling is only entertainment.
No one knows if you are online gambling enthusiast because you are at home while gambling. Besides, being a gambler there's nothing to shame with because that is your life and they have nothing to do. We had a different lifestyle and since gambling isn't a crime then, who cares if you gamble.

Agree with this. Don't let your gambling activity ruin your image if you have such kind of a profession. It does not mean that you should stop gambling if you have a "more decent career", but you should be more careful not to expose your gambling hobby. You might lose your job because some companies or offices follow such strict regulations on their employees.

Live a secret life like what we have seen in the movies. During the day you are a teacher (just like the example above). And on the night, you are a bad-ass pro-gambler.  ;D

yes only if you are a popular or reputable person on your place and if you tell them that your gambling or if someone discovered that your gambling but if you will only keep it as a secret and you only gamble anonymously/privately , know one will ever know  .

 in my case i am not a popular person or a reputable person so i dont care if people around me will see me playing a gambling  . infact im verry proud to tell them that im playing a gambling  .

What do you mean by "personal reputation"?The opinions of the people in your town about you?
I usually don't care what other people think about me.I'm not very social and I don't gamble in real offline casinos,so nobody in my town knows about me gambling.Even if they knew about that,I would still gamble.
You shouldn't be embarrassed for your gambling habits.You should be embarrassed only if you are a gambling addict.

If you will allow this people to judge you, you will feel bad.
First, it will start from your own belief, if you think gambling is bad, then you should not gamble at all, otherwise you are violating your own principle.

Gambling is not a sin but people can think whatever they want based on what they see, and you don't have to waste your time explaining to them.
It doesn't matter if they'll judge, just continue to live your life and be a good citizen, being a gambler should not affect your personal image badly.

This problem can occur with normal people like us and not necessarily with only popular personalities. I can tell you few cases where people were doing gambling hidden from their families and when their families find about their activates, those people have to face embarrassment.
In many places, gambling is not considered as a noble and good activity and if anyone knows a person doing gambling, that can cause difficulty for him.

It actually depends on which perspective you are looking.

Obviously, most of my family members know that my brother was into gambling and they were exhausting all the possible means in order to help/support him to overcome this habit and potentially an addiction. But on hindsight, most people that I know see him as someone who works hard enough to support and meet his obligations.
Fortunately, he overcame his addiction and went back to his old-self where he usually works hard to achieve his dreams.

The beauty of online gambling makes anyone anonymous. Not to mention, the convenience it provides eliminates the need for someone to go to actual casinos to bet and be succumbed to the ambiance of a casino.

If the gambling is legal in your religion and country then it may not effect your personal reputation. But on the other hand if you are not allowed to gamble in your religion and yet you do it, this may effect your reputation in case someone founds you gambling. It is just like you are caught in doing a sin.

It depends on many factors however as long as you play online you don't have to care about your reputation in other people eyes.If you go to lotto bars or offline casino this may impact your reputation depending where you live and how gambling is seen there.

Well if you have a job and if your company found out that you have a gambling habits then if could really affect you negatively. That is why if you wanted to play and still remain someone hidden from your society, you can play online.

To each it's own I guess. As a human being, no one can judge you, it's your life. And that's why religion and gambling doesn't go together at all.

The effects of gambling is mostly negative, almost all people who enters gambling becomes addicted wherein they tend to lose everything, money, wealth, house or even family just because of addiction so that is why when people know that you are a gambler they will somehow generalize people and will automatically think that you will become an addict just like the others, thus, it will affect your reputation as a person.
Some people may have better intentions when they enter gambling but it’s useless because almost all people see gambling as a bad thing and not something that is worth the time, money and effort.

Online gambling with crypto has given people the opportunity to play gambling without being noticed by others. You can play online on your personal computer or mobile and no one will be able to trace it. But you still be prepared for any mishaps and consequences if someone come to know you are involved in gambling.

This will be depending on what community you are living and what family you having as well,because if we are in the location where gambling is part of daily living there’s no chance that it will affect your reputation but if you have the other way around in life then yes it will sure damage your reputation
So the answer is depend on your society and also on your personality

I will give the answers based on my personal view that my friends and my family know i was gamble whether it for online or offline gamble but i don't really see any bad image regarding me even they were don't really care about my gamble results but my family told to me that as long i can control myself then they will allowed me to gamble

Yes I guess. Most of the friends around me who know that I gamble kinda see me as a person who has gotten addicted to it. Well they don't know much about gambling and addiction but since I gamble it too much they see me addicted to it. Well I don't blame them since they haven't tasted it yet.

Either way it doesn't affects me how they see me because of it.

Gambling is a choice of yours. People may see it as something bad because of stereotypes. But for me, it's how you let gambling affect your personal life. If you know how to limit yourself and only use it as an entertainment, then it's fine. But what makes gambling bad, is because of the people who cannot control themselves. They gave gambling a stereotype where when you gamble, you're bad, you're addicted to it, and such. It's what the society things when it comes to gambling. But don't let people dictate what kind of person you are just because you gamble. If they think gambling is bad and it makes you a bad person, prove them wrong. 

Playing gambling is never been a sin it would only be considered to be if you do make yourself do attached with gambling addiction where you do already come to a point where you already compromised your life savings and breaking out relations with your loved ones.

Gambling doesn't affect my reputation because I do gamble only online and didn't tend to gamble on any public place but even ive done such thing I don't see for it to be a big
factor for me since its my money after all and no one can stop you on how you do spend it.

The after effects of your gambling activities are the one who will be judged and reflects to your personalities. Gamblers who got attached too much and became addicted receives bad impressions, while those who's able to come up with good outcomes will be lucky. Good example to that are those who play and win with the lottery. Hitting the jackpot even you did try a lot of times will still gives you a good impressions.

Whether your reputation is affected if you gamble will depend on two factors, how much do you gamble and the type of social circles in which you move, in the first case if you gamble too much to the point of losing all your money you can be sure your reputation will be affected since that is a sign of lack of self-control and the hit will be even harder if you begin to try to borrow money from your friends, in the second case if you move in social circles that have a very strong moral or ethic code you could find your reputation ruined if you gamble since they think it is wrong even if you have your gambling under control.

Personally I don't think gambling affects my personal reputation.. I even posted my winning results several times on social media.

I am not a religious leader or a politician.. so I don't think gambling will affect my personal reputation.

Gambling hasn't affected my personal reputation and thought because I only gamble online, I understand the disadvantage involved, I also understand the rules and regulation about how to gamble profitable and I only gamble for fun when during my spare time.
Note: We can't all be a gambler and people who are affected are those who don't understand how well they can handle their buzz and lost when gambling.

It's just simple.
If you got lot of money thru gambling, people will see you with a good reputation, if your performance on gambling is bad and  have financial problem, people will freaking ignore you and talk negative to you, so your reputation became bad.

In a positive way yes gambling has a positive bearing on my reputation(lifestyle), it's helped me learn to make better decisions and become more prudent, it's taught me how to work with little resources available and also have a big heart when you're at the lowest point...especially when you're about to lose everything.

Now I see myself resourceful and not the type that chases after my losses to the extent of borrowing to feed my ego.

No it did not affect as long as you are moderate on what you are doing and you do not spend all your time in gambling you are ok with it, it's your money, you will be affected if you have no control on how you play but as long as you taking care of business and you take good care of your family, you should not get affected at all.

It depends on what kind of environment you lives, not all people like anything related to gambling so if you lives in an environment where most people are against gambling then you will have very bad reputation no matter you win big or lose big. Fortunately I live in a village where most people thinks in modern way where they do not care about what other's do or get as long as they do not affect each others so anything we do wont affect our reputation.

No and not yet. This is the reason why I choose to gamble online than going to those traditional casinos. In my country, gambling is accepted but frowned upon, meaning yes you can walk among non-gamblers and you will not be crucified but expect that someone will talk behind your back. Like example, they will assume that reason why you don't have money today is because you gamble or if you ask to borrow money, they will assume that you will only use that for gambling.

It doesn't affect my personal reputation because gambling is legal in my place and my friends knows already that I'm playing according to my goals and plans. Well, if you think gambling can ruin your reputation, then you must be a hard core gambler or a greedy gambler. Gambling is not bad as long as you're doing it right and you play just to have fun and not to make money at all, our reputation is important of course but don't focus on what people might say to you as long as you are right.

This.

I don't think gambling, in general, will wreck one's image or reputation. It depends on the situation. If you are a successful gambler, like DarkDays there, your image won't be destroyed. It has a greater chance that you wil be well-knowned or even praised.

The opposite—the destruction of your image and reputation—will just happen if you are a gambler who, when didn't win, becomes so depressed and drunk and worse, becomes addicted to gambling and obsessed with winning; someone who is willing to have tons of debts just to gamble. The result: Affected lifestyle.

Well, as for me, I consider myself lucky. Why? Because I don't gamble very much, thus, I don't have plenty of money. But though I don't have that wealth, at least I have my reputation. That's more than enough for me. ;)

No, and I don't want to get the bad effect on my life because I cannot imagine what will happen to my family and what will my family say to me. I think they will be too sad to see myself are playing gambling without they know and I spend so much money to win the games. So far, I am not like that, and I can handle myself with good. I don't want to be addicted or show myself to other people that I am playing gambling because they will not like me to do that in the next days.

This should not affect your reputation, provided that if you do everything right, consider gambling as entertainment, and not as a way to pay your bills. If gambling is entertainment for you, then this should not be or become a problem. You play using your free funds, which are only for gambling, you can lose everything or win something. It doesn't matter, actually. The key word here is "free funds", that is, you do not borrow in order to place a bet. Bad debts can lead to bad reputation. Not gambling.

It's a sin if your religion does not allow it, but for me, I play for gambling to have fun so I don't think it should affect my reputation.
People are sinners, I mean all of us, but that only depends on how we manage ourselves.

Our government even have their own sponsored lottery, and there are priest who bet on lottery and even in cock fighting, so they are sinners also, they should be the one to set some example to people because they are servants of God as a priest. Don't be too guilty, just widen your mind because not everything they told you is correct, you as a person should decide on what you believe or not, if you are happy with gambling, you should not feel the judgement of other people because you know you are not violating people's rights.

When one began to do something in excessive, that is when it becomes a matter of concern that reputation becomes an issue. I have friends that take alcohol in a decent manner and they are fine holding decent positions in their various companies but the moment they become drunkards that it begins to affect their daily activities, it becomes and issue of worry. The same thing for gamblers a lot of professionals have accounts on bookiemarts and sport gambling websites where they make wagers every time there is a match. And with the advent of online gambling, it makes it very easy to do from the comfort of your phone or computer when about to reply to a mail and you are good.

In my own case, reputation is the last thing that it would affect because for one, I only play in my free time and when I play, I set a target to be met then roll whether the target is met or not, the moment I exhaust my wager, till the next time when I am ready. Its that simple.

I don't gamble often so I have not experienced this yet. But to some popular people I watch on news like celebrities, once they gamble the society thinks of them as a gambling addict that their earnings would disappear in the long run. My thoughts on this is it is their own money so they have the right to where to spend it. If gambling is their source of enjoyment then let them be. It is not our fault if they become addicted and ruin their life. It is not bad to enjoy if we worked hard for it.

No way, my reputation is bad anyway, LOL,, just kidding.

But seriously though, I think gambling is widely accepted in our community and although there are people who still think and judge the old way, as long as it's accepted by the majority of people, I have nothing to worry.

These people who are close minded are usually those people who are less successful in life because they are afraid of taking risk like gambling.

The question is, did I believe gambling is harmful or illegal, if the answer is no, then it should not affect our reputation as a person.
Gambling is a no big deal to me, I can live my life even without gambling but I admit that gambling gives entertainment to my life so I love gambling.

People who are not responsible in managing themselves in gambling should be worried about their reputation getting affected, but not us who are responsible.

Well, people are not having same status of living. And when it comes into my side, Yes and Exactly, gambling really affects my personal reputation. Some people especially my close friends judge me. They said that I am a sinner and because I am gambling. Well, I replied, If I a sinner so be it as long as I don't hurt other people then let the God judge me and not you because you don't have the right to judge me because you are only a human. Indeed, good thing there is only gambling that we can make hide even in our own family that we are in gambling.

The reputation of gambling in the past in my locality use to be on the negative side. People who are gambling then are not regarded people but things have changed now that even people that are seen as responsible are also seen gambling. They are trying to make some side money, I don't think is just for fun.

I believe a person's reputation depends on how he carry himself towards thing.  I don't see how gambling affect a person in a negative way when he knows how to control himself and keep himself respected in everything he do.  Eventhough the community look at gambling in a negative way if you the one who is always present in a casino  help the community to be better and does not do anything against the law, people will see you reputable.  At the end of the day, those who are not reputable use gambling as an excuse to do such dishonorable things.

You cant really avoid to those eyes who are really keen on looking others activity specially with gambling where its commonly known to have a bad reputation.(for some countries).

Judgement is there but actually it isnt really a serious matter to think on because anyone is free to do things on their own.Personal reputation? Theres nothing wrong if you do gamble your money either you are seeking to make profits or just purely seeking out for fun.

From the experience I had in the past, it would have affected it if I hadn't take charges and correction.
Then, when I started as a new gambler, I was sloping into addiction, using money I should have saved. Luckily, I cautioned myself.
Presently, I can boldly say that it didn't affect my reputation as I gamble carefully.

I supported you said but most people who are somehow been affected by gambling are those who don't understand the rules/regulation of the game with the risk involved, are always after the reward involved, gambling without break and indiscipline cause I don't see any reason why someone would be affected by gambling if keep in check all that I mentioned.

I've seen the reputation of a gambler quite adversely affected in many cases, especially in cultures where it's considered taboo (and outright

illegal, for example in Islamic countries); then the fact that someone might be gambling becomes a political, religious and rebellious statement

with implications far beyond being seen as a controversial habit...

I think it depends how you treat gambling, if you're an addicted gambler and doesnt care about yourself and how others look at you then this is applicable. But if you gamble rarely (just like what I do) then I dont have to worry about this.

However if gambling makes you a successful gambler like you became rich through it then I think its another thing.

The only way to solve your problem is not to gamble or just gamble silently because we can do that nowadays with lots of crypto gambling sites in the space. We don't need to tell people what we are doing, let's enjoy ourselves and maybe tell only the people who knows how to gamble as they are the ones who can usually understand us and why we are doing it.

Your image and reputation can be tarnished by gambling but only to your family members because usually gamblers who have a problem with it in their lives hide it quite well. And unless they mention it nobody would know they have a difficult time keeping this bad habit undercontrol.
But I disagree with the original poster saying it is a sin.
Because many people do it so it is just part of society and it is legal to gamble in many parts of the world. So this is the world we live in so it cant be labelled as a sin. :-[

So far, I don't see a bad image of me in society because I don't tell other people that I am playing gambling. Maybe only some of them know that I am playing gambling and they can accept that as they also have another thing that they do. I think every people will have one or two things that they always do in their life and if the other people give a bad image, it will depend on how we do that and what the effect that we got.

And if we are a gambler and we addicted too, then I am sure that our image will be bad in the society because they won't let themselves or their family get the same thing as us. But if we can control ourself in any aspect we did, maybe the society will not give a bad image, but they will advise us not to spend a lot of money inside the gambling.

As long as we don't make bad things and we don't show the dark side of our life, I think they will be fine and accept us.

Your image in the society will be affected if you are gambling offline (casinos, "peryahan" etc.) but aside from that, it doesn't affect your personal reputation outside.

If you are gambling online then it doesn't affect since you are either communicating with people you don't know (online chat) or you don't communicate. In offline gambling, it can affect especially when you are losing.

You can whatever you want as long as it is moral/ethical. It also largely depends on the law... if your country does not allow it, you should be a bit more careful gambling as long as it does not harm you,  the society or other people.
Besides, there is hardly any part of our society that doesn't involve gambling, why single out the real gambling? Lol

For me, yes gambling as an effect on my personal reputation, especially when my friend invited me to a regular casino. We are not a high roller we usually go to the casino just to enjoy and for the entertainment like others, and one time I bet a more elevated amount on roulette and won. I think I'm fortunate at that time because I have an eight winning streak, ending up that my friend idolized me because of what I have done. :)

I don’t think it is about who you are at the moment but who you would become in the nearest future and how you will be perceived, this is the reason a lot of us would rather keep our identity on gambling secret if not a time will come when they would refer to it and use it against you.

One guy in my place lost an election because of this. He never cared about what people think of him until he was lucky to be given a senatorial ticket; it was at that moment everyone who knew him to be a gambler rose up against him because they felt he wasn’t responsible enough since he was a gambler. I advise you start learning how to Play anonymous; people have a general way the see gamblers.

If you don't feel free to do what you like, then you are just a slave of this society. I think this is not just about the gambling, there are many other stuff that can hurt your reputation and affect your life negatively. But I don't wish to care about it, I'm not that kind of person that judge others, do what you like to do, be responsible in what you are doing, and if it hurts you its your fault, handle it like a man, don't cry about it. I have my own opinion, I will not let someone else to control it.

I guess it will have a negative effect on someone specially if he turns to be a gambling addict and ruined his reputation because his relationships with someone has been affected negatively.

We all know that there are a lot gambling addicts around the world and we have hear countless stories that the person's relationship and attitude towards his love one has turned into a 360 degrees for the worst. So definitely there is an impact whether we admit it or not.

Agreed! This society will never ever run out of comments and generalizations. You do your thing anyway. Your reputation is bad on some eyes as it is good on others. Let them be. Be your own man. Gamble with your money and moderately. Be a responsible gambler. Have fun but never at the expense of your spouse or your children or their future.

You have a point mostly the people who have bad image in their place is losing their money in offline gambling just likw what you example but if you play through online because you do not telll them that you play it's sti normal and no changes happen but if you tell them that you losing money because you play online that's the problem but we don't care about them because that's our money right?

I really don't think gamblers are looked down upon the same way drug addiction is.  Gambling can cause you financial trouble but doesn't effect your physical health in the way drugs can.  A lot of the biggest celebrity names like to gamble including Michael Jordan.

It may affect the person's reputation or not because it all depends on how a person is addicted to gambling or not addicted as I speak. For example if I am very into gambling then i'm sure my reputation will be affected and neighbor will say that I am addicted to gambling for example.

It may affect our reputation if we live in a religious area where most people think negatively about gambling. No matter how often we play gambling but if we live in such area then we will get very bad reputation. I dont really care about other's opinion to be honest especially about gambling. As long as I do it responsibly then I dont care if others tag me with bad reputation because of gambling.

Well, if I made a gambled in some online gambling site, none of my friends had an idea about what I'm doing.
Because majority of the people when they heard gambling, it is automatically bad in their mind. And I don't want that
to be happen to me, so it is much better to keep it a secret to myself.

It did in past when I became a irresponsible gambler that even my family almost turns back on me because this is what happen if you live in very religious place that Gambling considered a sinful activity

Well there’s only few countries has no bad considerations for a gamblers 😂

Addiction in vices can be considered the same I think because they are no difference aside from what addiction they are having yet they still do abuse of the said vices

Yes, this is the common man's thinking about gambling. Another thing people look us like an addict even though we spend very little time on gambling. Even if we've lost out of our business or something happened people directly relate it with gambling. In simple they say, this was long expected and now it has happened. To avoid such instances it is good to stay hidden.

I think saying that”Everyone “ states gambling will effect someone’s image is over statement mate because yeah there might be more people who has that stand but there are also Gamblers (like us)who will oppose that word.because we don’t care what people will say as long as e are doing the right thing and don’t disturb or affect everyone
Lucky that this not happen to me until now,maybe because people know me and my attitude and they cannot say negative or not good towards me,(or they can say outside my knowledge)

What someone does with their own money is not really a concern for most, the problem is if the gambling gets to where I borrow other peoples money even if its legal borrowing then I'm by choice inviting others to place an opinion on what I do for fun and judge me negatively perhaps.
    I dont even gamble money which isnt money I could also spend on beer or 'waste' however I like, in comparison to just using it up like most things I could get the bonus of playing a game where I win it back and with interest sometimes.   So long as I've never fooled myself into thinking I'm doing much different to spending spare cash I dont find I later have problems explaining myself.   My money my business basically.

Of course, that is why you need to have the ability to control your emotion in gambling because it is very difficult to handle the feeling of win or lose. That will not be difficult as long as you know what you need to do, you don't have to worry to damage your reputation in your society.

But if we are addicted to gambling, it could ruin our reputations in society because they will judge and give a negative opinion to us. But that will not work if we always stay in the right line. The addicting person in gambling will get a negative effect on society, but we can help them to solve the problem so people can accept them again.

These days you can gamble at the comfort of your home, your community won't even know that you are gambling, the personal reputation at stake is a later thing.

I think it really did not affect much of my reputation because I always keep it low key and I know my limits. And I see to it that there is just that enough amount for my habit to be fed. That is also one good thing about gambling nowadays wherein; you can just be at home and gamble unlike before when you really have to be physically present at casinos.  ;)

Only in the eyes of GOD I tarnished my reputation, but in front of others, they even don't know I am gambling. My wife, family and friends don't know it, so I don't have to worry about reputation at all. I am a strict follower of my religion and that is the only one that I am affected with aside from that it's good.

Hiding is not good especially to our family because they are the ones who can help us directly in case we will face problems with gambling.
As for me, my family knows I'm gambling and the good thing is that they don't judge me negatively, they know that gambling is risky but I'm glad they believe that I am responsible also.

I have face problems in the past like I lose money that is not suppose to be spent in gambling, but I am thankful I was forgiven by my wife and I promise to her that I will never make the same mistake again.

So actually my statement is right that it may affect you and all the gamblers image in the society but we react to it or nor is some other thing from reputation.

Yes I could say that it really affect my personal reputation.
Some of my friends admire me when I win some easy money from gambling.
While some would look down on or make fun of me when I lose some.
But I don't really care about it as long as I am playing my own money and nobody is getting hurt because of it.

That means it doesn't affect you at all, that's what you should do, don't mind them because they are not risking their own money and therefore they don't understand how it feels to risk your money while you are enjoying gambling. It's normal to lose, everyone even experience more loses that winnings in gambling because that the nature, gambling sites are into business to be profitable, not to give people money.

Your friends are maybe not you real friends because when you win, they admire you or maybe celebrate with your when you spend your winning, but when you lose, they will judge you because they will not get anything from you, that's common in this world.

Thats why the anonimity of crypto is very useful in gambling. because gambling in some places is a bad activity and seems negative to many people. of course when you play gambling it will adversely affect your personal reputation. I myself never said I ever played gambling with my friends.

The good thing is that we keep our activities a secret, especially bad activities like gambling. Whereas, for us, gambling is not bad, but people already think that is not good. Online gambling is one way to gamble without the knowledge of other people or people around us. And anonymous on the online site is also very important, so we don't need to be afraid anymore.

Not only that they become broke, unemployed or what but they also lost their sanity because in gambling if you are too addicted then it will give the person a lot of stress, stress that he lost, stress in thinking how can he recover the losses and also stress of thinking what his family is going to say when they found out he gambled then loss. Overall, gambling though has a good side but it does more bad that good that is why most people consider gambling as a sin or a very bad thing.
In gambling it is very important that a gamblers only wager small or the amount that he can afford to lose and at the same time have great self control to avoid getting addicted and to avoid major problems to happen.

That's true, online gambling is a big help for discreet people who do not want to get exposed to being ridiculed, this is one of the reasons why online gambling has become so popular, they can gamble in their own bedroom or work station and as long as you don't tell anyone about your gambling activity, you are safe.

Yeah right but why care for what people say?not unless we are breaking rules the there must be something to be ashamed of

We gamble using our own money,risking our hard earned money,disturbing no one and enjoying life so maybe this is enough reason for us not to be affected by “What others might say” thingy because it’s our money and like at stake here and not theirs

People will criticize for all the things but they don't even look back how dirty they were!

If they ask you in a public place about your private habit we might feel embarassed or something like that.

Yups it’s clearly stated on my post that there’s a effect but atleast  what I opposed is the over statement of “Everyone” because that’s not true .people has different stand about gamblers and gambling so it was not everyone but maybe majority (who knows right?)

Anyway what’s important is the matter that as long as we are not doing anything wrong to others they they must not care (nor do I)on our works and besides they must be concerns on theirs lol 😂

No one really cares on what you gonna do since its your money to spend but you cant avoid those people who do have sharp eyes on minding other peoples business.

We cant avoid those type of people in the society where they do look into peoples activity and when it do connects with gambling they do already conclude that you are already an addicted one and already messes your life with it without even knowing the whole truth behind.

yes, it changes the image of a person in society, especially people who have strong religious knowledge,
Gambling is not allowed, and when it is done it will change the image of someone who looks good to bad,
but if we do gambling online it will be safer, because we can hold privacy and avoid crowds.

I guess right now many gamblers will prefer to play gambling online because they don't want to tell other people. They feel better if they playing gambling without anyone knows so they can enjoy the games without thinking about their reputation. But some gamblers don't care about the reputation in their society because they have money, they can use that money for anything they want. People could still talk about them even to make their reputation become bad, but that person will not think too serious.

That's subjective. If you go broke, then definite you and your gambling ways will be put in a bad light. Become successful and people will even look up and admire you. How do you think professional gamblers make money? It's not just because of their technique and winnings. They get support, financers and sponsors. And that's because of the reputation that they've built during their gambling ways.

Absolutely right. There is no point disclosing your gambling identity in the first place, irrespective of the nature  of the job, we all understand that gamblers are always seen as kids-like sets of people and once you find yourself in a career job where so much is expected of you, common sense demands that you keep your gambling status, thank God for online and crypto gambling. It has really made it much easier.

I am not into any of such demanding jobs but I don’t disclose my gambling identity. This is even to my family members because I know how they would see me if they are aware that I am into gambling.

I think that whether online or offline, gambling is not met to give a person a bad image or reputation if there is nothing negative associated with it.
Though, expect the religious beliefs of a person term it as a sin or evil. Then I think a person who pays huge respect to their religion shouldn't involve in it if their conscience won't judge them right.

No, because those who are damaged by their reputation in society are those who cannot control themselves properly. So in gambling, as long as you can control yourself then at least you will have control to keep your attitude good in the society, then gambling will not make your life look bad in the society. Keep on having wise thoughts and don't get lost in deep defeat, because if that happens you will do negative things which of course you yourself will damage your reputation in the society.

If it changes to the others but not with me. I'm not that hungry gambler that it really could change me cause I will only be in gambling when I have free time and not just fully engage in gambling life. Yes, there is something have to change and that is it teaches you how to become strong and to control my self which I consider this as a benefit from gambling.

no not at all as long as my gambling is at moderation, i don't think that it will affect my personal reputation at all and also, i think gambling that will affect your reputation only if only your gambling habit became an addiction to the point where it already have financial problems due to gambling and cannot paid all the loans and affect your family because of it from here this your life will be ruined anyways gambling should at moderation and shouldn't consider a source of income

Thats the pros of playing online, no one knows you gamble because you have this privacy compared to gambling in physical form.

Some people think gambling is bad and if they see that you gamble even you did nothing wrong to them they think bad towards you. I experience this one so I chose to gamble online wherein no one can see you.

I believe that is absolutely not true because I have been gambling for many years now and to think that I hold a strong position in my local place of worship. I do not even make my gambling habit a secret but everyone that knows me to be a gambler understands my stands in gambling. I am highly disciplined when it has to do with gambling.

The reason majority of people see gambling in a bad light is because of the way the gamblers present themselves in the first place; most gamblers are known to be addicts and greedy people. But when you already have a good reputation and people know you to be a person of integrity, I am very sure knowing you gamble or participate in gambling activities will not bring any dent in your image, rather it could even persuade people to believing that there are still decent gamblers.

Gambling online can give more anonymity but might reduce the fun part actually IMO since we are not going anywhere,just stilling at the place and gambling is more like for money.But that is good for our reputation as long as we didn't ruin our bank balance.

If you always look for the people opinion then they will be never be satisfied with your acts.
There is no need to see what others are saying about your ways of life and doings.  If you are playing gambling then play it for yourself, whatever you are doing, you are doing it for yourself and not for the other people.

We can't simply ignore everyone because we are working hard to make more money and get yourself up among your society so when you are doing something which is bad in the eyes of your society might ruin all the things of your hard work.

No, I don't face any problems on real life. Because I am not gambler on real life so there is no question about affect my image in society. Whatever and whenever I play gambling, it's with online gambling. So no one know that I am playing gambling (but I just play occasionally). If I don't like to share with any third party then no one will aware about my gambling. But it's true society really not like gambling although it's your personal matter what you will do with your money. Perhaps no one will prevent you but most likely they will not love you.

It depends on the location and how gamblers are seen and it also depends on the kind of name you have earned for yourself already. There are some people that can even win people into gambling by mere knowing they are gamblers. I started gambling the day I knew my pope gambles.

I remembered the first time I went on a visit to my reverend residential home, and he was so focused on his system, asked us to give us a little time and that he would soon be done with his work, not less than 30 minutes, he ended the game and told us he was playing a gambling game. I was shocked to my nerves because it was the first time I was seeing someone of such caliber gamble, he told us he played for fun and made us realize, the joy and benefits of gambling, from that day, I saw gambling differently.

The majority of voters as I noticed all say NO. In my part, gambling has no effect on my personal image because you can hide through using online gambling if you are really passionate about gambling. I did not gamble outside, so nobody knows that I am in gambling and there are too many online gamblings now that you can use while you are in your room. This is very easy to gamble and very convenient to use and cryptocurrency will fit regarding payment.

My family could vouch for me that I have no business with gambling also. I just hate to give explanations and considering what people tend to think of the game and the participants. Last month I hit jackpot, the win was huge and my spending habits changed, everyone around me wanted to know where I got the money, I was almost tempted to say it out but considering what they would say or how I might be seen I just kept mute and gave them other sources.

It’s quite unfair that gamblers aren’t treated with respect n our communities and the reason behind this is far-fetched. Left for me, everyone cannot be the same, let some work in corporate offices and let others be gamblers but everyone deserves to be treated rightly.

If gambling is my passion, I would not hide it, it's what we love so we should be proud of it, IMO, our reputation will only be affected based on what we are doing if it's illegal and if gambling is not illegal in our country, there is nothing to hide at all, let the people know what you are doing and maybe educate them that gambling is not as bad as they think.

You are the one who can prove that, if you are doing well, I mean you are having fun even you are losing, and it's not affecting your positive way of living, you should be alright to gamble.

The location will be the thing that we should consider to play gambling so we can play games without any trouble. They are playing gambling silently, and they don't even talk to other people about what they do. I have seen some of my friends playing gambling in their room every night, and they don't tell others.

I don't shock to see them like that, but I always suggest them not to involve deeper in the gambling because they will regret it someday. Yes, I see they are having fun in many gambling games, and they don't get addicting to the games because they can leave the games if we want to gather with the other friends.

in the place where I live, discrimination against gamblers is huge, so it will create social pressure, and you will feel uncomfortable. a lot of street gamblers are caught at my place because that is illegal. this certainly will affect one's reputation in the social. maybe some places also get the same thing. but, some people might still do it, whether it's pressing it in a public place or not. we know that each person has a different intention in his heart.

Yes,  in some way, when my wife discovered that I spending money on gambling.
We had very difficult talk after that and I realized that I have to be more open and honest in our relationship.
Many people don't like gambling or have very bad opinion about it,  including my wife.

You must tell them and don't keep secret in your family especially in your wife, that is a partner in your life that should know and part in your decision. In my self, it doesn't affect in my reputation because I know how can manage this and they already know that I am a gambler and I know my responsibility versus the gambling habits. You are not committing a crime so that is not affected.

With this type of communitiy, the influence adds big pressure to anyone who's involve with gambling activities. It's hard to find excuses when someone already tag you as one of those practitioner. It reflects right away to your image the impression of having this discriminated activities.

Though even there's a community like this, but inside gamblers' mind, it's still okay to continue as long as you are not doing wrong to anyone and you are keeping everything without disturbing anyone.

But there's already an online gambling now, this gives us a way to gamble personally without other people knowing it.
As the world is adopting new technology, same with the gambling industry, so if we want to enjoy with anonymity, we should adopt online gambling and actually crypto gambling is a big help since it gives a small time gamblers an opportunity to gamble as long as they have an idea about crypto or bitcoin.

Yes, I understand now.
In my culture gambling is very bad thing and people involved in gambling don't have good reputation.
Yes,  it's not crime,  of course,  because you can loose only your own money but there is also public law or moral.

What is certain is the view of someone who plays gambling will look bad. Want it to the community and the people closest to you. Indeed gambling is not a crime, it's just that people playing gambling are bad activities according to my belief.

It won't affect your image if you are not going to tell it to anyone, especially to your family and friends, besides, there is no reason for you to tell it since they are just going to say bad things about you. It would be better if you will make these kind of things private, for us to have a peace of mind against the judgmental society. You don't have to boast it to everybody that you are playing gambling and you are making money in gambling.

In fact, just earn and play in gambling quietely, and let your success make the sound.

Just online gambling who will make ourselves secretly. I've been two years to playing gambling and there is no one who knows that I like gamble, especially my family. Yeah you are right the perspective of other people is as a banchmark we live and socializing, moreover if we live in the country who have a view that gambling is dangerous thing. Most of them will avoid us and we just make a friend with another gambler.

It's because most people that gambles gets addicted to it. You can't blame your wife if she doesn't want you to gamble, she just don't want you to become one of those addicted gamblers that ruin their life. If you really can't stop that habit prove it to her that you'll still be responsible to your family and only spend some extra money that's left to you.

We can't blame those that have bad impression on gambling because they believe gambling usually lead to trouble due what happened to some gamblers which end up bankruptcy and this was caused by gambler who don't follow or understand the rules and regulation of gambling profitable but after the reward involves or gambling to recover losses.

I am very thankful that there is online gambling which is I can hide while I am going to gamble. Yes, it can affect my reputation because that is against with our belief and because of our religion. My whole family had faith in our religion and including me, even though drinking liquor is not allowed. I want to transfer in religion but I can't because I respect my family. To cut my long story into short, I gamble at home in my room while drinking liquor and relaxing while having entertainment in gambling. Who cares, nobody knows because I am using the internet just to gamble.

That's sad. Are you addicted to gambling or do you just gamble for to escape reality (entertainment)? I'm sorry that you have to deal with it in such a conservative family. However, I would advise you not to leave your religion because of your addiction to gambling, religion for many is a powerful force that has helped many when their gambling habits were at peak. What you are doing is both harmful to mind and health, I hope you can find a real life friend or someone who you can be open with and not stay in isolation :)

I never experienced anything with regard to my personal reputation because most of the time when I gamble, I usually am discreet and for the past few years I only gamble online or through an app that I’ve uploaded on my cellphone. Doesn’t need that much money to gamble too so I don’t think my reputation will be ruined by gambling  at my convenience.

This is the fact and its true that we cant really blame those people not to become negative towards gambling because we have seen the worst cases possible scenario that
might happen to an individual if he do let himself involved or tied with gambling too much.

This is why some of them or even majority will really have that kind of negative view towards it.

In our hometown, there's a known description if the person starts to become poor and he's a known gambler. People on there will start to blame his misfortune 'because he's a gambler'.

And that makes others aware that they shouldn't gamble too if they don't want to share the same fate. In my personal life, it didn't affected my personal reputation. I think it's still depending on how you handle yourself and the situation.

I don't see it as a negative thing lol. Actually, if the man indeed became poor and lost his fortunes due to his gambling habits :D he can be a fine example fot those who lack self-control. But obviously, the man must be supported too and helped and not left alone.

Yes, in some country, being a gambler will have a bad image in the society. But in another country, that thing will be a normal thing as in that country, and many gamblers have the same things as him. But that will be easy to blame someone if he becomes poor because of playing gambling.

I agree that a person needs to be helped to solve his problem so he can rise up from his downs. But that person needs to realize that what he did before was wrong and it cost everything so we can help him to get away out.

So far, I think the bad image will come to us if we cannot control ourselves in gambling, especially if we become poor by spending too much money on betting.

You are right and he needs help and serious medical attention like having a therapy to recover from his serious addiction. I was never treated like that because people know I only do betting on fun games with a little amount of money. Giving a man who lost everything a stigma does not help him and will just push to harm himself. People should reach out instead of acting like they have never done any mistakes in their lives.

Well, you have said it yourself—many people don't like gambling including your wife. But that's most probably because she just wants you to avoid the possible consequences. After all, she's your wife and she cares about you. She's probably thinking that there's more to life than gambling and you should spend your money on more important things. Gambling's not certain after all.

yes it does happen to me  . before everyone sees me a shy guy that does not come out often on our house but this image has change when some people on our place see me one time on a gambling casino  . this is start that i see them talking about me and they think that ive change but actually what they think is wrong  . im still the same shy guy that they know but i was only invited by a friend that time because my friend really loves to play on a casino  . but that was also the days that i started to get hook on playing gambling online  .

Glad i am not, about reputation, i born in environment that people think gambling is something that actually sin, but they still do it. But in fact, no one know i play on gambling site except my parents. And because of crypto, people don't know me play gambling because not use private bank account.

In my country gambling doesn't truly affect the reputation of someone. It is mostly a way of entertainment here so it doesn't bother someone's reputation.
If you are a gambler you are a normal people as most of the people gamble, but if you overdo it then of course your reputation is going to be affected.

Why don't you think it doesn't affect reputation, if you play moderately of course it doesn't affect reputation. But those who lose a lot are often said to be heavy gambling addicts, they spend 24 hours gambling, doing nothing else. But these are rare, life has forced them.

Well maybe these people that you mentioned as spending 24/daily in gambling are millionaires or billionaires since they can sustain their addictions right?
So I don’t think they need to be forced by life as the only thing that matters to them is to fulfill their daily routine as gamblers  maybe that’s right?
But if a people has a family and all he’s earning are being lose in gambling then that’s the person must be forced by life to prosperity and goodwill

it depends on who you are socializing with. if with people who are anti gambling and think gambling is just wasting money he can be to judge you and your reputation. but if you gambling just for yourself and your own pleasure I think that's fine. after all, everyone has their own adrenaline pleasures. if you like to challenge your adrenaline by risking money I think that's fine. just have to know the limits of our own before losing everything.

Does it really need for you to be admired? That kind of mindset will just push you out on doing gambling activities even more.Risk on getting addicted is pretty high
in result you would mess up your work and your entire life.Its better not to think on what others do think of about gambling.Theres no need to prove out because you wont get nothing if do anybody admires you.Admire for what? becoming a good and profitable gambler? I dont think so.I dont know whats the thing on your mind but it sounds dumb to have that kind of mindset or that kind of plan.Gambling is never been a bad thing since its being created for sole purpose of entertainment but peoples greed on what makes them look bad because of the circumstances that they are facing on.

You both make a point but gambling is not that really bad. With that been said, I have seen an occasion where peoples admire a gambler due to his huge winning and most important aspect is never gamble to extent that it will affect one's investment, saving or relationship.
@Yvesp110, you shouldn't be gambling to make people admire cause it makes skip the rules of gambling profitable.

In our town once you're a gambler they thought that you're a sinner because gambling is considered as a sin therefore it will affect your reputation so as long you live keep away gambling. Gambling is not our way of earning profit this will only lead you to a messy life.

Good to hear that you've been into something that could be appreciated, with respect on your profit from gambling. But you can't really chance those people behind you, and what's good advice to take here is that keeping your stories private might be better. Just open up your personal things about gambling to somebody who really could understand the world of gamblers, yet also they're used to do gambling in the same ways.

I don't see that as well as negative thing since you have read what I've said, it's on our hometown and people who are far from using technology and have been living on the tradition will think of it as something negative.

It's hard to change those kind of beliefs and I think that in some other communities and towns does have the same way of thinking about gambling.

Not if you will keep it private which is very easy if you're only gambling online using cryptocurrencies. I have a friend who has a degree who gambled exessively to the point that he needed to lie to his wife that he lose that much of money. Luckily, she managed to cover it up by borrowing from another friend and now his debt is cleared and their marriage is still intact.

That's what they believe it will do to your life so they judge that gambling is bad and it's a sin to do it.
It's an old school judgment for me, gambling is never a sin as long as you know how to control yourself, they need to understand and be educated about gambling, but since they judge without knowing it, that means this kind of people are close minded and it's hard to explain to them and they will continue to judge you.

Just leave the town or hide your gambling activity, nowadays we can do it online, so it won't be much of a problem, you can still mingle with them, without them knowing that you are a gambler, lol...

That is why we need to control ourselves in gambling so we can prevent the bad reputation that might happen in our society. The society in our communities will not know what we did in our home because we don't gamble in every day. If we can do other things with our society, they will not think that we are gamblers because they don't know our activity in our home or in out there. But if we tell them that sometimes we were playing gambling, then they will think that we are a gambler and we might get a bad reputation.

The point is we should not rule out community life just because we do business at home, sometimes many online businesman close themselves at home and are anti-social because of their busy online business. Although I own several online businesses, I don't forget to mingle with other communities.

If they question my online business, then I will be honest about it. As long as we don't forget to contribute to the community environment by helping each other. When we make a positive contribution to society, that society will respect us.

In all honesty I must admit that a great number of gamblers today became gamblers as a result of the inspiration they got from another players success story.  No one woke up suddenly with interest to become a gambler, it is absolutely impossible. 

I would always use myself for reverence,  I was shocked when I saw my cousins account balance and I knew the only source of income he had was gambling.  I humbly asked if the money was made From gambling and he agreed.  I was left with no choice than to also join in the game. I am glad today that I saw something that inspired me and this is the reason I can happily share my story since I never can tell who I might be helping then. Gamblers are what people think. They are not poor so we get to proof this at all points.

You did great job there are so many gamblers who are inspired from other gamblers and they joined gambling as you also motivated me with your words o know gambling is the best way to bring some positive changes in your life style and I am happy that am soon gona join gambling through well trusted site as i want to be rich same as your cousin.

Not to break out the positivity but this is how luck works.It might worked for his cousin but doesnt work for anybody or on you.Being inspired isnt bad but we know the risk behind or lies ahead as a gamblers. Addiction is there which would result to loss of money and it do have high chances for it to happen specially you pursue to be a good gambler.
Never ever to praise up to those who make money because they are just lucky why they able to reach up that state. Differentiate anytime into yourself because luck doesnt linked up to anybody. Just take it as casual on playing gambling for the sake of entertainment and making money is just a bonus.Dont ever exert too much on becoming someone whove been lucky.

Well that’s respectable comment because you seems to respect your way of living

But this doesn’t applied to everyone here as we have different religion,different views in life and different communities that lives on

But I know in the back of our mind gambling wasn’t that sinful but the people who mistreat how to deal with gambling in life

Gambling equates to heavy drinking in my community but then lots of people drink quite heavily quite often so its hardly a great negative.    One of my best friends dad was a bookmaker for a gambling firm and I dont remember him especially regretting his job, very secure and he had that for decades.
   Some countries will ban gambling but its often in favor of a national lottery type setup (which government taxes and/or runs itself) rather any great reasoning its bad to gamble.    Gamble firms provide very regular tax revenue to governments, the reason being its so value is that its considered a recession proof industry.   A nation can suffer a great drop in tax revenue during a revenue where the books for fiscal spending now fail to balance with excess spending and problems with tax income, known as deficit spending so gambling then coming in with its regular tax take and paying government means they now value this industry as productive.   
  Thats some countries, not all but many things that might be banned are welcomed when its forming a help to the structure of fiscal budgeting. 

Yes, that is what we should do in society. We cannot close ourselves from society because they are our neighbor, and we lived with them. I don't want to stay at home all day long because I want to know them too and that's why I always walk around in my neighborhood and talk with them. I feel that they can give me an idea for my online business.

And related to gambling, I guess only some of my neighbor who knows that I am playing gambling on my mobile phone and I think they know what I've played, and they can accept that. I can divide when the time to play and when the time to meet up with them but I don't suggest them to follow me to playing gambling.

I think he didn't use the right word, not necessarily to be admired but envied. I do this sometimes with the intention of making people know that it's not always what they think about gambling.  I think the intention sometimes is to change the perspectives or mindset of certain individuals concerning gambling.

It can sometimes be interesting to take people know that their ideology about gambling is not always right.  A lot of people believe gambling is not a profitable business or gamblers are only there to waste their time with nothing to show forth, so showing people sometimes what you are worth from gambling is sometimes a very great idea.  Gamblers are rich and I am a good proof of that.

I think this is the more reason we all have to collectively start talking against the implementation of KYC on casino sites. We might think the information is safe because it is only with the site but the possibility of it being leaked someday is great and this is really a threat besides that I admit that gambling with a hidden identity is the greatest thing ever done especially for gamblers. 

I am so glad that I have been gambling anonymously and this has not caused me any kind of damage on my reputation. I work in a company where gambling is highly prohibited, I would have been relieved of my duty by now if they knew I was into gambling but I never mention it and there is no traces of such.

It affects me negatively and positively. As a family man, most of time in gambling are supposed to be used for the family but, whenever I start gambling, I totally forgets to recognized the presence of my family until am done with the gambling, this has caused me a big dispute between me and my nucleus family. It has made my family life difficult in terms of giving of attention to the family. Although, most of my winnings bring joy to the family as the proceeds from gambling are what I used for family maintenance. Currently, I have been able to balance the time for gambling and that of the family.

when someone ask me if i'm gambling and i replied yes, they started talking about me and i don't really care because i'm earning money and what about them? They earning stories.

If in real life it will be very influential in one's "point of view".

I will always keep my private activities like playing "gambling" in the community or personal life. Not without reason, because people play gambling are people who are not good or bad activities to do. So keep your gambling activities a secret, like you are hiding your identity to a gambling site.

After with you out state and our believes matters how we look gambling and how we give value to a gambler. In my place gamblers are not well known because it said to be haram. People think it’s time wasting maybe they lost money so they have such idea about gambling. But as much as i can see we take risk of money and work fairly in gambling I don’t know why people talk against it sometimes.

We are not doing anything illegal,we are not doing gambling with someone's money but we still we have to keep those gambling activities under dark life which means gambling is still not accepted in the society we are living right?

It will be illegal if we live in the country who put gambling as a bad activity. Yeah we just have a thought that gambling is something that won't harm other people but the government has their own way, they will catch anyone who play gambling although the gambler use their own money. So, with online gambling who can keep our personal identity anynomously is something that very useful for the gambler. And also we can hide our activities in our society.

AFAIK,many countries banned gambling for saving people from scam gambling activities but in the modern world it can be easily identified with the help of internet and more over crypto gambling too it to the most convenient thing to do but we are still hiding for some reason.

Probably those scam gambling companies did have a license to operate. Upon reading the votes it shows that the majority of voters are saying "NO" and it can't affect their reputation. Luckily we have now online gambling using crypto and we can hide our real identity. Just a simple logic, don't gamble if this is against you government jurisdiction, once you have caught it has an extreme effect on your reputation.

That is good if you can realize that the family is the most important in your life.
I am glad to see that you can balance your time for playing gambling and for your family.
We need to do that because if we spend too much time in gambling, we can be like him and that will make our life worst.
You need to search for a real job so you can give the money for your family and they don't depend on your win money because that will be too difficult for you always to win.
But if you cannot hold yourself and still playing gambling, I think they can give you a bad reputation, not just in your family but also in your society.
We live in society, some of them can accept that we are a gambler, but the other will not do the same.
So we need to be careful if we want to play gambling.

I think the only countries that have actively banned gambling are those with a religion-based government and code of ethics.

Other countries also take a harsh stance when there is a terrible history of corruption and fraud, or when they are unable to control people funnelling their money through casinos as a way to launder it.

So long as you're not gambling compulsively, I see no reason why it should adversely affect your reputation. After all, it's in our nature.

I've been a professional poker player for several years now, and have not had any issues whatsoever, because everybody knows I am easily EV+.

Personally, it doesn't affect my image maybe because I wasn't that person whom everyone expect to act very professional. I'm thankful that people sorrounds me don't judge me based on what I'm doing even though they know that I'm gambling a long time ago. Perhaps because they know that I was able to manage it and I have the control in doing things I wanted to do in life.

In my country gambling is not completely prohibited but lottery were banned here but still some state did allowed it from the official side not from any private owners.

But still people see the whole gambling as wrong thing,whatever I have to live with that.

The reason is that there are certain ways the the people or society expect someone to behave. The society in the past see people who gamble as lazy people, now it is seen by some as entertainment, fun and a social thing.

Gambling is not a big issue in our society and even at a religious view. In fact, gambling is part of our culture. So, as long as you are on track and is not that addicted in gambling that it affects your life, family, and well being, no one will have something bad to say about you.

Not at all. My family doesn't care if I gamble or not. All they care about is money. If I lose money it's all bad and if I win it's all fine and they are happy about it. I have learned not to tell people about my losses. It makes everything much easier and allows me to avoid difficult questions. Being a gambler may be seen as a weakness or addiction but it's not that negative to make us lose reputation.

I understand this kind of condition, one of my friends is like that is a gambler, but he bet to cockfights. Some ppl /cousin is irritated to him when he loses even it's his money, but when he won, he always gives some shares to his family/cousin they are happy and supporting him to this kind of habit.  I think some ppl still annoyed with the things that you/we do even it is your own money/ life we have our own bad habits, and I agree what you said that (everything much easier and allows me to avoid difficult questions). :)

Not only lazy but they see gamblers as corrupt people, especially if the gambler is a politician, people are easy to judge they will not believe you that you are gambling just to entertain, even if you explain it to them, if you are comfortable with your actions, you will just ignore these people
it's up to you if you ignore them or be affected by what these people are saying.

Maybe those who does not have a job and all they do is to gamble are lazy people, there are really people like that in this world, gambling is open for everyone regardless of what status you are in life and therefore those who are poor and can't even give the basic needs for their family are those who are prone to gambling addiction and gambling for them is bad.

If we can enjoy gambling even if we are losing most of the time, that means we are doing it for fun, and if people will judge you, that's up to them since you cannot control their mind, therefore we just have to live on what we think is fun and right for us.

People are entitled to their own opinion specially between gamblers and none gamble person ,we cannot force them to do so but we can minimize the bad reaction
Gambling is accepted  almost the whole world and all countries that support gambling industries has a good economy,so either respect us gambler or not the important thing here is we can be proud of helping the economy grows ,becaue big amount of taxation is the government gets from gambling and not to mention the works that each gambling company gives

I think its depend how you handle your gambling addiction because if you do gamble without having a goal then possible it can affect your reputation when you become worst by your addiction. Some gamblers are to greedy even they win a good amount but they stil continue to do gamble until they lose again.

No gambling do not affect my reputation because i play to my limits.

Everyone has to maintain a threshold when it comes to gambling. Because for gambling to affect anyone's reputation, iy simply means that you have borrowed to gamble? Gambled with valuables etc

Yes it does some of my friends envy me because of it.
They also look up to me when I was showing them how much I've won and how easily I earned it.
But is was back when BTC price was still low that I could gamble a high amount of BTC back then.

but now that btc price is high you dont gamble anymore ? or you still play gambling using other low valued coins or using a little of your btc   ?  people are like that mate . its normal that they will love you if you win and hate you if you loose  but who give a sh8t  ? that is already thier problem anymore and not yours  . just gamble if you like and stop if your tired   .  gambling dont affect our reputation  but a gambling sites reputation can be affected if people find out that they are cheating  or illegal   .

Well it depends because for some places gambling is prohibited like here in our town we cant play physical gambling because if you're caught by authorities you'll need to pay a fine of $500.

We cant label gambling as bad because its just a game. The gambler itself are the ones who make it bad for treating it as the answer to become rich. As an occasional gambler it doesnt affect my reputation (though I mostly gamble online and no one sees me) because the people here are not judgemental to mind others business.

not really and actually Gambling makes me famous back then,because we have some Gambling games that applied in our school activities in which i used my skills and win those games so from then i become popular from the school community.

and also i am a discipline person so i can handle my gambling habit so nothing that this can affect bad my reputation instead for good i think  in which i can say.

I think if we are playing gambling online, it is not affected by our personal reputations because if we don't tell other people, they will not give a bad name to us. It is different if we are playing gambling offline. People will see what we do in real life so they can give or judge us with bad things. So I think it depends on what ways we are playing gambling because as long as we can keep secret about what we do, we will be fine.

Things would be easy for us to hide if we are gambling online but most people does not do that, and hopefully we will stay patient responsible so people would feel that our behavior changes due to gambling addiction, yes, only people with gambling addiction are not behaving right, most of us who gamble can manage ourselves and that should everyone has to learn.

but gambling in silent gives us more chances of becoming addicted?this is My Own Opinion but i think this is indeed?
so the more we play secretly the more chance for our attitude to change and eventually will affect our reputation?so maybe still the best way is to just Play responsibly and even if people knew you are into gambling the respect will remains.

No, it haven't affect my image in the society because I am not really used in gambling, I gamble only once a week, and sometimes I don't play even one time in a week because it is not my habit, I only gamble when my friends ask me about that, and that is so rare. Some people bet to have fun, but I cannot understand why they tend to lose their money to find happiness; there are so many things that you can do to find happiness without losing your money.

I see gamblers having a bad image if and only if, they cannot control themselves from gambling, if they are so addicted in gambling to the point that they haven't do anything besides of gambling and that is so bad for them, but if a gamblers become a successful because of playing then, I don't see them having a bad image, Gambling is only bad if you already lose a lot of your money and if you cannot limit yourself from betting.

Sure it can, especially when you're playing with your savings or mortgage is on the line. You can't help but change due to stress and anxiety imagining you might loss. Some people might actually have done this, luckily for me i only play with extra money or free money because i dont want to be those guys who's depress or homeless.

Not yet,
Since I started gambling I don't experienced anything like that. Even if a lot of people around me knows that I am gambling, they still treat me the same as how they treat me before.
Gambling is not really a big deal in our area, maybe it depends on the location you are in, that is only when it can affect your personal reputation.

It's mostly based on your religion, I believe in Islam gambling is prohibited so if you are a Muslim(correct me if I'm wrong) and if people knows you are gambling, your reputation will look bad so I believe they are hiding when they are gambling and the best way to hide is gambling online using crypto.

The chances of addiction are quite high as you say when if no one knows that we are gambling, they will not be able to prevent and support them from this evil, and after some time gambling, the signs of gambling become worse and more obvious, our reputation can be affected when we can borrow money from many people and then debt evasion and can not pay. However, here, I am not saying that publicity is good, a few close friends may be enough but in the end, we still should be less involved in gambling

By reading most of the post, It is only depending on the situation you have on your personal life whether your country don't allow gambling or your religion is prohibiting you from playing gambling. People do have their own opinions and different choices in life and some of them is really good at one thing but still, they are prohibited to do the things they enjoy. This is the part they are keeping people from knowing what they are doing such as gambling. I also believe that playing gambling is not wrong unless it affects your personal life like it affects your personal reputation negatively.

Yes, your words are true!!Gambling can affect your reputation and at the same time not, If you are addicted and expose yourself to losing a lot of money, Of course, this will destroy your reputation in the middle. But if you have enough energy to control your emotions, Certainly gambling will not affect your reputation under any circumstances!!!

Practically even other religious sectors also prohibiting their members to do this activities, if you are a member of conservative religions your
reputations will be affected once other members finds out that you are engaged to this business.
Though there are people who are good controlling their practices and able to hide this activities while enjoying the game.

If somebody has to be financially or debt free then this is vital to keep aside certain money only for gambling or play with some free money etc. if once you lose that money then you should be quitting and playing further till that month or day is over in whichever way you have adjusted it . This will help you to be stress free as well .

We are just humans and finding or looking for something entertaining would really be there thats why committing things which opposes your religions views would
really give out significant negative impact to your reputations and as said , when someone do able to see you on doing such violating act.If you do know that it
can heavily affect your reputation in first place then better to avoid it but actually there are lots of ways for you to hide which you can make to play.
It will really be on case to case basis because not all would really have same scenarios in life.

In our area gambling is very big deal especially the gamblers are girls so they affected there reputation people murmuring that those girl are so addicted in gambling. But they still gamble they don't mind what people they say to them. So it's not easy once you gonna enter on gambling some affect your reputation so don't be addict on gambling.

Yes, we hope and wish that our behavior will not change because we are playing gambling for just fun. I think when we have control of gambling, we can prevent the bad things that might happen, and we can be responsible for anything we did in gambling. People in out there will not look that gambling has a bad impact on us to have bad behavior or changing the behavior because we have the power to control ourselves.


Yes, of course. It is why we need to have control over our minds so we can prevent or stay away from the addicting. It is hard, but it's worth to try so we can always protect ourselves from the addicting, and the best thing that we can do is limiting the time and money from playing gambling. Playing responsible will necessary in gambling because that can help us always to remind us that we don't have to chase the win money.

No it doesn't affect my personal reputation,
I also think that it doesn't affect me in anyway I only gamble so often and I am not addicted to it,
I could control and limit my bets or the money that I use for gambling.

yeah it was,there are people with short understanding in some things and judging people without knowing whats the roots of everything.

for example we are going in casino for fun but comes out almost 3x a week because i have a tourist visitor and they want to enjoy the vacation so going out each time is necessary ,but my neighbor took this as bad habits and tell other people that i am addicted to gambling lol.

but actually?i dont care what they say or think because i know myself and i also knew that i am not that king of what they think.

You know, this is also the same situation I have recently.
My friends and I are having fun through different activities and gambling is one of those, as soon as the people near us know that we are gambling, they always talk about us like we did something bad to them.

But yes, we also don't care about their toxicity. We don't want to make any scene, that's why we just don't give any time to them.

Here in my country when you are addicted to gambling it will reflect to your reputation.
Not only yours but also your family name. Some people don't understand why you are risking in gambling, some people think you're just throwing away your money.

What gambling? Play online gambling or play gambling in real life? For online gambling, it will harm your reputation only if you are addicted. You may forget to have more time for your family, neighbors, or friends once you are too serious about playing gambling. And you probably prefer a debt loan and traped on it if you cannot manage/limit your funds. While playing gambling in real life, people usually think negatively when they know it. This happens immediately and spreads fast. 

You can hide things especially in terms of your gambling activities, online is really booming and from this venue you are capable of hiding your gambling practices, there's no one who can see you when you play in front of your personal computer or mobiles devices. And same from what you have said it's situational as we do have different scenarios in life, human instinct to find entertainment in life and for some people gambling fits to their needs.

Gambling will affect your personal reputation only if you do something like that. loaning for the sake of gambling is the worst thing you can do, even simply loaning will affect your reputation so imagine using someone else money to gamble. Personally, gambling didn't affect my personal reputation considering that, I only gamble for fun and if sometimes I gamble to win I will just go by myself and use my own extra money.

Indeed, its depend to player if they do bad when gambling because when they gamble without discipline then it can lead them to a harm not only to their money but most especially to their self. I think players should be more careful because they are possible from addiction when they so much determination to use their hobby to get rich.

Gambling does affect some people's reputation and it doesn't affect others. My answer is biased based on the surroundings as well as the area you live in. I never faced these issues because I had my surroundings who were gamblers too and they neither stopped me nor themselves, no curses, no borrowing, nothing like that. If you play with your own money, you have the right to do so because you are not putting anybody else's money at stake so nobody should have any problem with you but this is not same in some countries where people's mentality is narrow-minded and they just try to be over smart to you and ask you to leave these 'addictions' even though you are doing it just for fun sake.

It would really depend on where you do live and as you mentioned each places do have particular impressions towards gambling.Most of them are on negative side which they do treat it up like a disease
and when someone got involved with it then they do already have bad insights or comments towards to that individual.
On my part i dont experience such treatment or problem and same as yours where people doesnt care on what are the things you are into as long you dont disturbed nor mind others business
then they do just ignore on things that youve been doing.

And that visiting an offline casino can somehow be compared to an act condemned by society?
Everyone spends their leisure time in different ways. Some people like to play football, others prefer hockey, but there are those who go to the casino to drink beer and put a couple of hundred dollars in the machines or play poker.
I do not consider this something shameful and reprehensible. The main thing is that a person knows the measure and does not leave all their money in the casino.

It only becomes bad in image if gambling doesn't give you benefit and it only takes away you a lot of things which makes your miserable. And in my case, it's not happening so I'm still good and my reputation in my neighborhood doesn't really affect and coming up to that point.
And why it matters if we gamble to our neighborhood? do they give the money that we will spend in gambling? are we ruining their lives as we gamble, no we don't and they don't.

It depends.

Sometimes, if a person is a gambler, they're giving a negative impression towards that person and I really hate the fact that most of the people are like that. But since I'm just a casual gambler, it wasn't really a thing for me.
@passwordnow yeah right, sometimes it'll spread on the community that you spent all of your money just for gambling and it will ruin your reputation.

Not at all because is only few of my friends that are aware that I do play gambling and this friends do play gambling too though they don't make good money from it the way I do. Telling other people who have negative perception about gambling is not ideal because their comments will demoralize you and was why I don't discuss such issue with such people.

Just to answer the OP's question here. Gambling has not affected my personal reputation as my friends don't know that I'm into gambling as I only play in online casinos that I have never divulged with them.  ;D And honestly, I started online gambling because of crypto. Though I have been in physical casino, but not really a regular patron, on occasions only (esp when in vacation). You can gamble anonymously with even low capital nowadays in online casinos. So all in all, they don't have any idea that I am gambling from time to time, though for me it's really not big of a deal as well as I only gamble my extra extra money. I'm just gambling for entertainment purposes only and winnings is just a bonus.

It is the advantage of playing online gambling/casino. Everybody doesn't know your identity since you can play in an anonymous way. And about the effect/impact on reputation, it depends on the player how they can manage it. If they can do everything properly and not excessively, it doesn't affect anything.    

You did the correct way by using only extra money and never expect too much for the prizes (winning). In this way, you won't be trapped on debt/loan and you can avoid addiction as well. So, you can play freely, whenever you want. Good job, mate!!

I mean, that is not condemned or shameful, but in some cultures, especially in Asian culture, when people are going to visit gambling places, it can get a bad name in society. Maybe people like to see the ordinary hobby or usual that other people do like playing soccer or other sports. But some of them cannot accept if gambling is like a hobby because, in their places, gambling can be something that can damage the mentality. So if that person can quiet and not tell other people about his activity in gambling, maybe everything will be fine as long as he doesn't change his behavior in society.

In our society there is an ingrained belief that gambling often leads to great losses. In addition, some people with a bad psyche may have ludomania. If you have full control over your gambling activities and can stop at any time, there is no need to report a passion for gambling to relatives. But if gambling takes over your self-control in this case, relatives better know about your hobby. 

In my personal experience, yes.

I am really into gambling ever since, and those people around me knew that I am gambling. I always feel like someone is watching over me, all people around me changed their treatment ever since that they knew that I am gambling. How we treat each other before is not the same as how we treat ourselves right now.

Since then, I distance myself to avoid getting judge by them, I don't really want to get in trouble or be hurt by what they think of me, right now I am always by myself and that is how gambling affects my personal reputation.

Unfortunately, I haven't spent a single day in Asia. That is why I will believe your words. However, it seems strange to me that a person can be treated badly because of how he spends his leisure time. I only refer to cases where a person does not overuse gambling.
Overuse of gambling as well as alcohol, etc. is subject to censure in any society.

The money management is the main reason for great losses, cant lose what you dont bet.   I think the addiction might be to spending money that isnt available, same way some people will shop for the idea that brings happiness even if they dont need the items and even if they dont have the money.   Both problems would go back to the money problem, the gambling is almost secondary seems like.   Some people shop alot but go to look for items that arent expensive or require alot of sorting through items to find something rare and missed by others, thats a good way to avoid the money issue but continue the interest in shopping.
  I'd argue people can gamble but need to avoid using too large a bet, Crypto is ideal for small bets imo as it usually allows tiny amounts.

In my years of gambling, I guess, there's not much of an impact on my personal reputation while playing. Except one time that a friend told me that I got a little bit cocky since I started gambling. But I think that he doesn't really know that I really show my cockiness once the adrenaline of playing kicks in because whenever I play (not just in gambling but in every game) whenever there is a stake, my cocky persona shows up. What I can just say is, don't listen to whatever they say as long as you are having fun.

And that's the start why people think that you do no good with your life because you have been spending it over and over again in gambling.
The reputation in your neighborhood will start to crumple and their look at you will become different after knowing that you've been into gambling.

That is so true. In my case, my co-teacher thought that I am gambling and ashamed me in front of my students. It is hard to deal with that since you already built your reputation for a long time but it will be taken down just by a single misunderstanding.

Ohh my God, I completely forgot about this thread and it got bumped recently and discussion gets going. :)

Most people say that they didn't have any effect on their reputation due to gambling but most likely because they never have shown this to the public so then only they can realize when someone gets to know about their habit.

Thinking about locking this thread? Or need more discussion? ::)

It really affects the person's image especially when you are a gambler because we all know that gambling is a kind of vice in which if other people we've known it especially your loved ones then probably the image that you have will suddenly have a bad image because the people will just say that you are a bad person because you are playing or gambling in which it is really a negative side, but we are just doing it in order to earn money and to have fun so we don't care about those people who are seeing us a bad person.

If you show it to a group of normal people then they might have nothing to say into you, come on! We are now in a more liberated civilization so everybody can understand that. However, if you are a gambler (got and addiction in worst case) and present yourself in a group of religious people then you should get ready to be criticized, even not by the mouth but at least by the mind which can be manifested in their eyes.

In my experience, I can say that my reputation remain intact despite of being a gambler but sometimes my girlfriend became mad at me every single time I gamble or even only telling something about it, is that counted? Lol ;D.
Sure, the choice is yours :D.

Some people say that it really doesn't have any effect on their image because they are not exposing it into the public, but once they have brrn exposed it into the public or someone that they know see thst they are gambling or playing and the news become trend with the other people then that's the time that it will be have a negative image on you it is just a matter of fact that the people doesn't know that the person is playing or gambling so that their image are still remain but us like what i have been said when they expose it to the many people does the time but his or her own image will become negative.

You've had a lot of discussion here. There were a lot of good opinions, but there was also a lot of spam.
I still continue to be confident that in most countries of the world, gambling is not condemned by society. The main thing in this is to be able to comply with the framework and not abuse gambling and be able to spend only small amounts that were originally planned.

Wow, so you are a teacher, that's nice to hear. Have you talked to your co-teacher and told him/her that just because you also gamble it doesn't mean that you are an addicted person and it's not harming you so you are all good.
You don't even harm them, this problem I guess is everywhere and we're all affected by these people that doesn't know the whole story.

Yeah, this problem is already done since we talked to each other, we are all good now. That is the case though, I did not harm them but the perception of gamblers in our community is a bit of a rash one. That you are irresponsible, that you should not be a teacher if you are a gambler, that kind of perspective. I don't mind how other teachers look at me, my problem there is how would I talk that to my students since that would affect how they respect me as a teacher. There are those changes but after some time, well, time really heals, it went back to normal but me related to gambling will still be there. I even heard last week some students from the other class talk about me and they sing this song "Manok na Pula", well, if you are a Filipino, you know what this means.

I guess it's a taboo everywhere about gamblers. They aren't used to see a teacher that's also gambling that's probably the reason why unwanted words were thrown to you.
Well, what's important now is both of you are okay and the beef has been settled.

Yeah, we are all good but still, that will go down forever. Some students still see me as a gambler but they are treating me "cool" some of them also gamble, I taught them some skills but don't take the wrong idea. I am not encouraging them to gamble it is just that when we talk about it, I usually tell a story that they could learn. Another problem comes with the parents since people in our country are so fond of gossips and it can really affect your personal reputation since they will spread this gossip that is so far from the truth that I am even surprised by it.

I think gambling affects the reputation of a person because most of the time when we are going into a gambling casino we will meet a person that is really good in a specific game or in the whole casino games and they won a lot of money and as a person, you can make a conclusion that he/she is a good gambler. Also, you can get a lot of reputation and respect because other people meet good at earning. Also, they are the same as us but they make a lot of studies, research and gained a lot of experience from different games. It is good too if we are trying to share our knowledge too with other people so they can earn a lot of profit to gambling.

It depends on the kind of cycle you keep and how you potray it to people. There are alot of reputable gamblers that people don't really know they gamble. But gone are the days when people use to condemn gambling , it's all about making money now so you make it any way that is convenient for you as long as you don't Rob or steal it.

How do you know about this? Do you know them in real-life or just got the information from any sources? If you got the information from an article or a video, you are better to enclose it here. So, people can trust on what you state above!  ;)

Indeed. Gamblers aren't thieves or robbers. Commonly, the gambler status isn't a bad thing that people must avoid. But the reputation can be worse if someone becomes an addicted gambler that harms everything to stay on it.

In my case, no. The teacher saw me on my android phone in a gambling site. She(my co-teacher) did not know me whether I am a good gambler or not but still, that affected my reputation. Earning and wealth out of gambling might earn reputation but that is just because you are already a successful one if they see you still the same as you are as a gambler, that will not change anything.

Maybe it can affect our image but who cares as long as I am using my own money then why not.  I am playing just for fun and to be stress free so I dont care what other people say. There are always people who will judge us so we better continue what we are doing as long as we are not hurting them.

Basically we play gambling because of our own will. Other people can only judge and judge, I feel the negative effects that I receive when playing gambling. People say to me, that gambling is a bad thing. But I have never cared about that, I do gambling not harming anyone here and thank you for the people who have advised me. But I have my own principles in playing gambling. So the important thing is, don't pay attention to what other people say.

If you don't care about what people think about you is another matter from your personal reputation because we are talking about what others think about you and gambling affected it or not.Open-minded people not judge people for every action but we are not living in such a society so we always have to keep our name clear from any bad things or it might get bad impression even for generations. :)

It is no problem if you think what people say is unnecessary. As long as you don't use loan/debt money, then it means you don't need other help. However, sometimes you can consider what people's advice. You know that in addiction cases, most gamblers don't realize that they are addicted to gambling. They need others to remind them.

Is it also applied for your closest people such as family? I know that some people have their own principle and don't really care for others. However, you are better to make an exception for certain things. Example: for family or closest friends.  

They still do condemn it. It depends on the group of people you're dealing with but to many people a gambler is a weak addict and to another group he's a lazy bastard who doesn't want to work but instead relies on making money from the misfortune of others.

The world is not a nice place where people try to understand and respect one another.

They have people once the society knows that they are playing gambling they judge them,  they have streotype if we say gambling that once you play gambling you are addict and your life will be destroy. Im happy that we have online gambling because no one knows that you play beacuse it is anonymous than the traditional gambling that many people see you once you play there.

Nice for those students that you have. It's just odd for them to see some teachers that are into gambling and they don't know that it's actually easy to gamble online with crypto these days. As long as you are teaching the right thing to your students, there's no problem with that and to avoid future ruckus from their parents and co-teachers. You don't have to be annoyed about gossips if you are actually gambling and you are not doing anything wrong to them.

I don't care about what people said to me because I don't use their money I use it my own so I don't harm them.

Society is one of the enemy of individual and I will not shy who really I am my family and my friends know that I play gambling in ny place also in the online but my reputation is good for them . I have members of the family who play tooo but the good with us we have limits .

It depends on how you handle everything in your personal lives if you are making a loan to gamble and spend so much time in gambling casinos, it can really ruin your reputation, moderation is the answer here if you don't want your reputation to be affected and you will not become a gossip of your town.

Taking a loan to gamble is not the best solution to playing gambling because we risk something that we cannot get. Perhaps, that can affect our life and also our reputation even if we don't think about that.  I agree that moderation will help us to prevent something terrible that might happen to us. With having prevention in gambling, we can also manage our time in gambling, our time with other people because we are not live alone. If we can do that, we will not have any problem in our life, and we can play gambling without worry to become addicting.

i think the more you gamble secretly the more chance you become addicted?and besides why do you care about what people may say?it is not their money that you are risking so they have no rights to judged you just because you are enjoying gambling or maybe they are just jealous because they have no money to play?that is why they keep an eye on you .

Not only rash but gamblers are considered as people who one would not trust with money because who knows they will gamble all the money, I have seen a situation where everything was finalized between 2 mediocre people one being the investor and the other being the the one who would use the money to generate profits but once somehow the investor came to know that the person he is dealing with is a gambler he immediately terminated the almost finalized deal and there was a lot of tension between the two.

I feel our society judges too quickly just because you are a gambler and would look upon you as someone who wastes money, but this is not true for everyone.

It's good for you because you know your limitations some people they don't know the word limitation they go and go gambling with out knowing that there's a lot of money lose to them. So some people are affected their personal reputations because of that gambling with out limit to them self.

Similar images are formed in the brains of people due to the effects of television and the media. Society condemns any form of addiction, whether it is gambling, gambling, drug or alcohol addiction.
Which in itself is detrimental to addicted people, because it seems to them that society rejects them, which in turn pushes them deeper into their addiction.

People have different perspectives when it comes to a person who gambles, people will judge you based on the level of their perception while others have poor mindset which isn't open for this kind of entertainment. People nowadays judge the situation of others without even knowing the story behind it, they don't analyze that gambling has advantages and disadvantages. Just because you gamble it doesn't mean that you are an addict, what is their basis to consider a person as a gambling addict? It is the problem with people that's why I can't blame those people who never share their story about gambling because they are afraid that others will criticize them.

While online gambling has it's own advantages there are some disadvantages too like you cannot really stop underage kinds from gambling and you can't do anything if the casino turns scam. Depends on what country and what society you belong to because among rich people in some countries gambling is considered as a sign of royalty in fact most of the addictions are looked upon as a sign of a rich person.

I personally feel no shame being a gambler but yes it is not something I would be proud about or mentioning from front to everyone.

It's your money to use and not theirs so it's proper to say that they don't have business to whatever things you plan to use it, but the common interpretation of this activities ruined your reputation in terms of conservative approaches. You need to stand from how you understand this industry to continue enjoying this business.

Gambling is like my hobby only therefore not so many knows that I gamble as I rarely gamble in land base casino and I usually gamble in online casinos. Only my friends knows that I gamble and they always say that I should stop it or I will be addicted in the end but my reply is only this "I only gamble for fun so don't worry about me".

None of them really criticize me instead they are only worried about me but to myself I know that gambling is not good so I always put a limitation to myself in everytime I gamble. But there is a time when one of my colleagues found out that I gamble in land base casino and I am worried whether he is going to our boss but it didn't happen because he is also a gambler.

The society where we live in considers gambling to be bad but, I do not care what they think cause it is my money with which I gamble and it is non of their concern. I just do not understand this stereotypes associated with gambling.

I don't think that gambling affected my personal reputation. I'm not addicted gambler and I play it for fun, it's not that my whole life is connected with gambling.
I'm aware that some people don't look on positive way on gambling and It's not very positive social characteristic exactly because it can turn into addiction.
On the other hand it's important for your family and friends think of you and you can please all people and not everyone will understand your way of life so there is no point to worry about it.

Yes because after all, when gambling has completely destroyed your life then surely your reputation in the community and the environment around you will be very bad, but when you do not involve others for every problem you face in gambling in the sense, you still have emotional control, then at least there is a way in which you can maintain your good reputation in the community because someone who has no control, they will do something negative when the problem in gambling cannot be solved with a wise mindset.

You aren't live on this world alone, you will need someone else suggestion for yourself.

Every form of assessment will come from someone else and you are wrong if you worth your live by yourself.

If you believe gambling is something good for you then tell them and I think they will fine as well, because they will uderstand if you are an old person I mean you aren't kid you will be able to differentiate something according to your logic.

Most people that their personal reputation is affected by gambling are mostly gambling addicts and moderate gamblers even if you are gambling online or in person that is why many communities considered gambling to be bad and some people don't care about you and some are worried that something might happen.

These are some of the most addictive things that is why someone who isn't addicted to it warns us with such things but no one knows what is our strength and weakness so we don't really have to worry about the facts because it might save someone who isn't aware of consequences.

Maybe it gives an effect on our personal reputations, but we can let them say anything to us because we don't disturb their lives, we use our own money. That is happening in real life when someone has been seen by playing gambling. Even if that person is playing in a gambling place that is far away from his home, I think it is better not to judge them an addicted to the gambler, but that society can try to help that man to reduce or help him to leave gambling. Judging the person will be easy but helping that man will be not easy.

Good reasoning, they don't have the right to judges you as you are not bothering them, though if you start to borrow money for them that's the time they can talk about you, but as long as you are using your own money and you are good taking care of your finances then this should be in your own shoulders and nothing else.

Indeed, gambling is all about money so that if you are not good in handling money you will received so much verbal attack. Nowadays many people think that if you are a gambler you are not good in handling money because they think that if the time comes that you have a big debt you will be wanted in your area and it may result of going in jail, and that's it you have a bad image to them. So that the only way is to prove to people that your a different gambler among addicted gamblers by just showing that you have a discipline gambler and your are good in managing money, after that little by little many people are have a good look among gamblers.