Do review Sites Still help bad casinos?

[Satofan44]

If I talk about the 1xBit casino from a long time ago, they had a negative reputation on our forum, but they also captured a huge market due to their huge promotional activity on other platforms, especially social media and through celebrities.

This platform is no longer that big or relevant, actually casinos are giving way too much relevance and money to this website compared to its actual relevance on the market. Most crypto users are not on this forum, most even don't know it exists. So don't be surprised that negative reputation that does not stick across other platforms does not have a lot of effect as some would hope.

The presence of review sites is, in fact, a fortification line that is impervious to unfaithful betting websites. Actual user experience will give an objective image that is hard to be manoeuvred by casinos. Although there are efforts to conceal the blemishes using synthetic reviews, with repetitive data on the services by a number of different users the actuality will be known. This critical review of reviews would save us on the deceit of sites of lower quality.

User experience does not give an objective imagine of anything, it gives a subjective image of things. If you simply go towards believing the users on whatever they claim, then total chaos will ensue as users will be able to destroy any casino with made up stories.

If I had to choose between review sites and this forum, I would definitely trust more the guide of people here than a bunch of anonymous people with no reputation.

You are in the minority of internet and casino users with this, and it is for a good reason. As far as money-oriented corruption goes, this website is as bad as any other website except completely scam review websites. Don't deny it simply because you are also making money here.

If you end up finding a bad website and on the review websites they are promoted, then just check here, you will get the honest truth about it. Either the topic of that casino itself would be filled with bad comments, or if they are not allowing that then you could see scam accusations page and the trust of that account suddenly crash when they scam.

It is only bad for people who do not use this forum, because outside at review websites we can see manipulation of the ratings easily.

There are also fake stories and fake scam accusations here. All kinds of people come so there is all sorts of things happening.

[rojan]

I noticed that some casinos already have bad reputation in forums, many complaints, delayed withdrawals, even scam issues. But when you check review sites, they are still listed, just with low ratings.

For me, this is still publicity. Even with bad reviews, they are still visible. New players might still click, see the bonus, and register. Most people don’t really read deep.

Feels like some review sites only care about affiliate money. As long as they earn, they will still list these casinos even if there are already many complaints.

They say good or bad publicity is still publicity, and in gambling this feels true.
I think review sites should be stricter and just not include these casinos at all, instead of giving low scores and moving on.

What do you guys think?

To me, eliminating this Bad casino platforms entirely from review site is not the best, I think when you see a casino site with low trust score, that is enough reason to tell a gambler that site is a no go area because of their poor services, when it's being deleted entirely, it means gamblers will not be able to read and know they are poorly rated and will still go ahead to make use of the site. The worst part is when a betting platform is not doing well, and a review platform is rating it very high or giving such platform high trust score, that is corruption, and is another way of luring gamblers into gamble with the wrong platform. It is also very necessary to expose any gambling site rendering weak services here, so that gamblers will remain very cautious and abstain from using such gambling site.

I feel your pain, but I do not believe that an out-and-out ban on bad casinos on the review websites is the solution. An extremely low trust score of the platform with visible complaints sends a message of caution to players. It is true that that transparency can even help gamblers to make bad decisions. The actual problem lies in the fact that the review sites are unfairly rated highly although there are severe issues. There should be no hiding of delays, scams, and any unresolved issues under the guise of honest reviews since affiliate commissions should not have any effect.

[Satofan44]

I think review sites should be stricter and just not include these casinos at all, instead of giving low scores and moving on.

What do you guys think?

To me, eliminating this Bad casino platforms entirely from review site is not the best, I think when you see a casino site with low trust score, that is enough reason to tell a gambler that site is a no go area because of their poor services, when it's being deleted entirely, it means gamblers will not be able to read and know they are poorly rated and will still go ahead to make use of the site. The worst part is when a betting platform is not doing well, and a review platform is rating it very high or giving such platform high trust score, that is corruption, and is another way of luring gamblers into gamble with the wrong platform. It is also very necessary to expose any gambling site rendering weak services here, so that gamblers will remain very cautious and abstain from using such gambling site.

I feel your pain, but I do not believe that an out-and-out ban on bad casinos on the review websites is the solution. An extremely low trust score of the platform with visible complaints sends a message of caution to players. It is true that that transparency can even help gamblers to make bad decisions. The actual problem lies in the fact that the review sites are unfairly rated highly although there are severe issues. There should be no hiding of delays, scams, and any unresolved issues under the guise of honest reviews since affiliate commissions should not have any effect.

A ban on bad casino platforms would do the exact opposite of what the user thinks would happen. People will and do occasionally stumble upon these casinos for whatever reason, and they may have some very lucrative offers that will turn their brain into denial mode full of hopium. They want it to be real, and with absence of strong evidence that the bad casino is malicious they will often go the way of blind faith. That means that after doing some basic research online and failing to find information about these platforms, such as on review websites, they will proceed to play on them anyway even if there is no information that they are good casinos either. It is people like this who are hurt from stupid ideas and decisions such as banning bad casinos from review platforms, even though it is their own fault in these cases. And anyway, the idea does not make sense at all. Who is going to enforce it and how do they mean to force some review website to comply with something that isn't objectively better to begin with?

Someone could just spin their own review website that includes these casinos, and nothing would be accomplished except a diversion of traffic from existing to new review platforms.

[shasan]

Feels like some review sites only care about affiliate money. As long as they earn, they will still list these casinos even if there are already many complaints.

It is correct that they care about the affiliate  money but if any gambling site is scam then the promoter won't be able to make money in this case I think maximum promoter care about the site whether they are scammer or not. But if the payment based on the time and or post not based on referral then the case would be difference.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

It might not be all of them that are doing this, I don't use those site but I have the believe that it's not all of them that would want to take a bribe from those scam casino just to promote them on their platforms. Perhaps, I would recommend everyone to use this forum because it give real opinion about every casino and most especially the opinions and feedback you get on the forum are coming from reputable members and also from members that have experience with the casino you are seeking to know about.

Always trust with our own research and instinct, also its important for us not to believe on one source only and always make a habit to read multiple sources or site to know the real reputation of the casino they are looking for.

Many people pointing out that Bitcointalk is good source of information and I agree with them. The threads they created is a reflection on how their casino running.

I agree with you, I have always said the same thing too, it's best to always make a concrete research about every platform that we want to use, as long as that platform requires us to put in our money in it, it's important that we verify how legit the website or company is by learning about them from different source. If we ask about any casino on this forum, different members will give honest feedback about the casino, to tell if they are scammers or reputable, so I trust here more than others.

[Satofan44]

Feels like some review sites only care about affiliate money. As long as they earn, they will still list these casinos even if there are already many complaints.

It is correct that they care about the affiliate  money but if any gambling site is scam then the promoter won't be able to make money in this case I think maximum promoter care about the site whether they are scammer or not. But if the payment based on the time and or post not based on referral then the case would be difference.

Not exactly, because that is not what happens in the regular case. If websites lost their reputation for having affiliate links to casinos that ended up scamming, then they would be very careful about who they affiliate for. Given that they are not careful, you can conclude that this is not happening. You can see the same with cryptocurrencies. Many people with a large number of followers have shilled countless scams over the years and they still have a large following, therefore this currently does not work. For dishonest review websites that only care about affiliate money, the best strategy is to have affiliate links to as many websites as possible.

I agree with you, I have always said the same thing too, it's best to always make a concrete research about every platform that we want to use, as long as that platform requires us to put in our money in it, it's important that we verify how legit the website or company is by learning about them from different source. If we ask about any casino on this forum, different members will give honest feedback about the casino, to tell if they are scammers or reputable, so I trust here more than others.

There is never a valid reason to not do your own research or solely delegate it to others. Many people act as if they have things going on in their lives like Elon Musk, when in fact they have so much free time that it is ridiculous -- they are just lazy or extremely inefficient. Therefore, the basic action before using any platform -- whether money is involved or not -- is to DYOR.