And broke: are you upset that your bots are also being weeded out of play? Why not just let things be the way they are because clearly you have no influence? Let the owner do what the owner wants to do, right?
No he hasnt weeded out anything of mine although the attempt was made back when the house edge was 0% and increased to #retarded levels. My bot has not always been public. I used it for a very long time privately when the house edge was 0 some years ago. Then about a year or so ago (while I was still using it myself) I started streaming a trading channel and people always asked me what the black screen in the background was that I would keep up all the time. After a while I got sick of the users/watchers/whateveruwantotcallthem pestering me to release the bot so that they could use it. It was quite obvious that I was very successful with it and thus the requests. I refused to do so because I had no way to limit it's use should it get out of hand. Then suggestions to tie it to a referral ID came in and it seemed logical to me so thats exactly what I did. So the bot now checks to see if a user is one of my referrals. It does so by connecting to my server. Since it does this, I can limit who can/cant use it and I could turn it off completely for everyone if I chose to do so at any time. Since then I no longer have any need to use the bot myself since it now pays for itself as well as the trading I do. When I lose a trade, the referrals make up for it (where as previously my bot winnings would serve that purpose) so that I could continue trading without having to put up any of my own capitol.
I dislike this place mostly because of TheQuack and how he treats people (not only myself but others as well, dude is just an asshole, as should be expected for anyone sticking up for a casino since they likely have 0 morals). I also dislike the house edge, but if I had to pick one or the other as being the worse of the two, I would say TheQuack takes the cake since he's a complete idiot and provides nothing of value to ANYONE. Ask him a question and you're more likely than not to get some sort of snide remark that has absolutely nothing to do with anything you asked. He does this with everyone because he thinks he's god's gift to the interwebs. At least the site itself still produces income although I would prefer that it still had 0 house edge.
If TheQuack was suddenly silenced on the forums, this place would improve 300 fold and the only issue would be the house edge. TheQuack would have you believe that I think anyone who disagrees with me is an asshole. However I routinely joke with jackg when I reply around here (which is maybe once a week or every other week, depends what I have goin on at the time, I use this place to pass idle time). He's not an asshole like TheQuack, but he also doesnt agree with me on most things either. I dont consider him an asshole like I do TheQuack because he isnt. He treats people with humor or respect unlike TheQuack. So I treat TheQuack the same way he treats everyone else. Like complete shit.
Ok, so if I understand correctly, your bots haven't been weeded out and you no longer use them as they now pay for itself via referrals. This sounds like a good thing. I don't know about you, but business sense doesn't need me to like the people who run the service that makes me profit.
I used to make a bit of money from ads, and I hated all of the ones I used, because I found them rude, slow, and always docked my earnings for "abuse" which they never proved or told me about, so I had trouble even trying to improve because I had no idea what traffic was causing those alerts. Eventually, they stopped earning me much and I moved on.
I don't think we need to bring morals into the picture... I do agree that this forum has a lot of tough characters and myself feel I have been unfairly treated in the past on some casinos, which I just react by not giving them my business. I appreciate the forum is what it is today because of those tough characters, better or worse. But TheQuin hasn't been rude... curt I would say, and calling people names doesn't help your case exactly no?
Anyway, okay, so we all have disagreements about all these gambling sites. For me it's simple. I move on if I can't stand it. Good luck!