I think what most casinos need to do about the faucet is either completely disable it for new accounts or accounts without any valid deposits.
Faucet is one of a few things that will be tweaked in the near future. Not sure about disabling the faucet (or feature that will replace it) for either of those reasons because Bitsler does pay out numerous faucet claims without a problem or issue. (Way more than I'm personally comfortable with actually)
Or they should put a disclaimer when claiming the faucet that its "for play money and no valid withdraws will be honoured" because it seems that every week there is some disgruntled newbie who complains on this forum or in the trollbox about being denied access to the faucet.
Most withdraws that were made from the faucet are actually paid out. You'll usually see Baryom saying something in the lines of "this user has withdrawn 3, 5, 10+ times from the faucet without any problems.
Sure its not fair that someone went from 100 Sats to like 100,000 Sats and they made enough to do the min withdraw and it might of taken a few hours or days of their life.
If they're not farming, then I don't see how that's not fair.
People need to know that you can't earn a living these days off the faucet.
I think most people do know that. Where I gambled previously - we all knew faucet didn't mean anything especially in winning some of the bigger promotions, however, I still saw a few them and many whales use the faucet every single day.
So thats all it takes, basically 1 user to ruin it for everybody.
Deplorables are eventually blocked, they complain as is the obvious reaction in such a case and the rest go on and use the faucet with no issues.
I find the practice of disallowing withdrawals for "faucet abuse"
Not sure why you are using quotation marks?
.. to extremely distasteful and bordering on unethical.
It's one of those cases where you say nothing of the players that are withdrawing from the faucet, focus on the ones that picked up a problem along the way including faucet farmers, bots, and multi accounts, ignore the tos, ignore the fact that the tiny group of players being declined on their faucet withdrawals has actually withdrawn a few/many times prior to that happening. I actually laughed a bit while reading this part
Of course the site has no obligation to give a user free money
And yet they do anyways.
..and disabling new faucet claims should clearly be done for "abusers"
Again, not sure why you are using it in quotation marks?
but once the site has given them money, it should be the users.
This means that after discovering a user referred her/himself that the funds now belong to the abuser? I've literally seen similar and even worse situations of abuse in this industry be reversed or blocked at some of the biggest and oldest sites, even on bitcointalk. It's a bit weird that you would imply or suggest this weird 'standard' that no other place would do or sane person would even consider.
The responsible and ethical thing for a casino to would be identify these people and disable future faucet claims.
That is being done yes.
Instead of hoping they turn into paying customers
I've almost been here for 2 years now and have never heard the word 'paying customer' be used. This is just an assumption on your part. (I see them utilizing different avenues for deposits of which faucet isn't one)
and if they don't just not let them withdraw.
Even when they don't make a deposit, they are still allowed to withdraw in most cases.
Same shit about thing like site that's that don't allow you to bet at 9900x with faucet funds. If that isn't allowed, then the site shouldn't allow you to do it. Or disable your faucet if you do. It seems unfair to wait until someone's withdrawing to find a reason to not honor it.
Obviously playing with high multipliers isn't the problem, but rather playing high multipliers for extended periods of time with no interaction other than claiming the faucet till they run out, rinse and repeat day in and day out is actually the problem because this will get the faucet disabled eventually and not the multiplier. I have played on so many sites and have never had problems on any one of them for playing high multipliers with faucet. Could you be specific about which sites you are talking about?