All criticism is not negative. I politely put it out there that the "Lottery" winners
is still a bit suspect and that it should be looked at. There is no need to get all rallied up about this. When you observe something strange, you comment on that to improve the system.
I have been using this faucet for years and I would like it if all "grey" areas were cleared. ^smile^
Anyone new to all this reading your initial post, or even this one, would get the impression that there is a reason to doubt the site's honesty. I feel that putting a robust response to that for them to read and counter the arguments is a good thing to do.
I really don't see a way to get winners to report here. The numbers of people, 10 a week, are just too small to get an adequate response. I think the $20/200 thread averages about one a day, I can't tell how many winners there actually are but I would bet that is a tiny fraction of them.
The lack of people posting here is meaningless when anyone who has any doubts can easily prove themselves that it is fair every Sunday by working out the winners' user IDs first and then seeing that they match those reported on the site.
If Trump can get elected and yet stay in office and is yet considered as a fit president then you're also free to have your doubts, but in both cases it's wrong to even be there in the first place.
I remember there was a time, where a majority of members demanded proof if someone actually won using lottery tickets or 9999, then members came forward and posted proof they did.
I have personally won 9999 number.
Trust is something that you earn, doubt is free, but freebitco.in has earned the trust and I don't feel now they need to clarify even one % of who wins and who doesn't.
For most people using Freebitco.in, trust was based on the withdrawal of their accumulated Satoshi at the end of every week. Back in the day, there were a lot of scam faucets that were not paying people for the time they put in to solve those Capthas. Freebitco.in was not one of those sites and people trusted them because of that.
They also introduced a provably fair gambling feature, which built more trust and later they introduced the provably fair Lottery system. So I agree, based on it's history, Freebitco.in is perceived as a trustworthy website.
So the Freebitco.in story has evolved into something trustworthy, because people using this service actively requested validation for the features that are offered on this site. The site owner or owners obliged by adding validation features and everyone was happy.
Lately, this site has offered Banking services, where you receive interest on your deposit.
So the whole "trust" relationship with this site is built on their track history of providing validation for features they added and acting in good faith. Given this background, I should think that they should not have any problem to add "reporting" mechanisms for the Lottery users and even incentives for these people doing that, to make things more transparent.
You might agree with me that reporting on a weekly Lottery of +/- 3 BTC in total is more important than a $20 giveaway. Why can this not be done? There are 10 prizes in total and some of these are valued at $20+
Let's build some more trust to improve this site even more. ^smile^