Topic: How do you see a gambling review website that has its own gambling website? - page 4. (Read 538 times)

Ordinarily, most review sites are always sentimental; they choose who to give the best review to based on their personal interest in the casino, which is way more against what a review site stands for. To talk of, when a casino review site now has its own casino, we can predict what's really going to happen in their casino; there will be no two ways about it.
 
If it were possible, there are various limits to things that could be made possible and limits from others to handle, especially casinos having a review site and all of that.
 
But truth be told, if we are to check the background of most review sites, it might amaze us to find out that one of their major sponsors and co-owners are casinos, which are topping their review list and who pay the highest to secure the most rated spot. It's as simple as that only a few review sites have proven otherwise to be given legitimate reviews, which to some point are still questionable.

There could be a conflict of interest to down cast one company and gives favouritism to another. This is why I don't take reviews so serious particularly the ones I see from a single person. If you want to consider a gambling website and you want to justify them using a review, the best you can do is to check a review platform that allow everyone to drop their options and have a place where people can rate as well and should have a reaction stickers so that when reviews are dropped, any person that has similar experience can click on those reactions to stickers to comfirm that indeed it's true. That way an outsider can make conclusion based on the review and the reactions of people that has visited that page.

You can also make small deposit and find out by yourself. They say experience is the best teacher, so when you deposit small amount of money, you can play one game or two, wager simple games that does have high risk and make withdrawals, don't forget to also scan through the terms and conditions to see some red flags. This way you can do a simple review by yourself and then checkmate it with what others have said about the gambling website.

If the review website is big and trusted. will definitely not be affiliated or have a relationship with the owner of the gambling website. they only accept advertising and reviews to get paid.
If it's a new review website, it might be affiliated with gambling site owners.
But if the big ones have been popular for a long time, they must be trusted

Well even though the casino a owned by a third-party reviews platform does not have anything significant to do with how I feel about them or my trust for the casino or even the review platform itself,  and one other thing is that,  even though the review site may be bias in their reviews of the casino,  it donest mean their will be able to control the review of other competitors and in most cases such casinos are the most watched by those reviews platforms since their are seen as competitor and all their feature will be put to dip testing to find any possible fault to nail them with and so for that their will make sure to give the best of what they have to offer at most and all time.

But for a fact I haven't seen such a platform with that dual services before,  and haven't read about it either,  I only assumed what would likely happen and I made my comment based on my own understanding.

I don't see it as strange because a review site with a gambling site can undercut its competitors. And that is a normal thing so we as gamblers should be able to look for other review sites that are not biased towards any site. This review site can provide honest reviews to every visitor. It can become a place recommended by many gamblers, making @efialtis and @gamblingbro a review site recommended by many people.

If you doubt the reviews on the review site, you can return to this forum and ask about the casino site. The members here will provide reviews if they have gambling experience at the casino. We know that competition in the online gambling industry has grown so rapidly that each online casino wants to be the best among other online casino sites.

Well i guess it depends on how transparent they are. If they only state the facts and actually give praises to any features that deserve them, i would trust them, as they would have no reason to made them up about their rivals.

But obviously it would be an issue. Not a new i issue, i am certain about that. As Binance bought coinmarketcap and immediately started to fix how trust and volume would be calculated. And while they did some good stuff, main point of keeping their exchange highest at the rankings was quite transparent. Even if it deserved the first place, they didn't do a good job hiding their intentions.

And obviously something like that would annoy other casinos, it would seem like arranging beauty pageant contest yourself where you would make sure you won. It would be silly.

Thing is, i am sure that most famous reviewing sites get DMs all the time about promoting their site. I don't think they would that bold that they would offer direct money for ranking them higher as if they would get caught from that it would be really bad for them. But giving free credits for trying some casinos and writing something nice about them must be happening a lot. And not only with casinos. When i still had an NFT twitter account, i got contacted by a site that offered free nfts just to try them out. I didn't even have to review them publicly if i didn't want, they were just looking for feedback. I gave one feature idea and they implemented that. I am guessing they do that with high rollers and reviewing sites as well.

It becomes very obvious for anyone to tell that if the review site is owned by someone having his own gambling site then the review will be biased.
I will never trust such a site because they will never post a genuine review. So the review site should be from a person who doesn't own any shares on any gambling site.
Talking about biased reviews, it's not necessary that the review sites which don't have any gambling sites are genuine because even those can be biased.
In fact some people are paid to post positive feedbacks and so it becomes really tough to trust a review site.
So far, there's only one gambling review site that I trust and that is BTCGOSU which has earned it's reputation on this forum over the years.

I don't think a review site would have a gambling site and I'm yet to come across any so I can't say for sure if there's any currently in existence because I've not heard or seen any at the moment but then I wouldn't want to doubt the possibility of it happening and it it does I think it's not ideal and personally I will question the credibility of the review sites.

Most review site knows better how much it will tell on their credibility if they add a gambling site to their platforms because it will be more of advertising their site and trying to move a customer base to their site through their criticism and it's definitely going to sound bias especially when they will end up redirecting or making references to their own site, if they are in for a review, it will be fine they stick to review as some persons trust their unbiased judgements to help them pick a gambling platforms they can work with but of they have their own it will look like their criticism isn't a good one.

Definitely avoiding it and there are lot of platforms these days where you can get more information about a casino and not just reviews site, and for me YouTube, Twitter or something similar like them are best way to know more info about them and they are way more interactive especially YouTube where they should something like demo. As casino sites are way too centralized we definitely need other sources of information.

allowing negative comments from users would negate their involvement in the biases which they could say its comes from the users especially if the ratings come from the votes of the users.

internet users work mysteriously and those reviewed casinos will think they are in harsh competition with this review site with a casino. they will be accusing each other in silent using anonymous users.

The only time it will be a conflict of interest is when they started publishing negative review against competitor casino while giving themselves the only positive feedback.

But I really doubt a gambling review site will ruined their reputation just because they launch their own casino. I think they will just put their casino on the review site in a form of ads instead of having a review by themselves because their follower will surely use their website without any bullshit fake review for their casino.

IIRC Gosu is the perfect example of this topic but I highly doubt they will put something that will be conflict of interest because efi is professional in his business.

If the review and gambling sites are owned by the same owner, it is clear that there is a conflict of interest.

You're right it would be a concern and certainly undermine other lesser competitors because the highest would be the casinos themselves on their reviews in such a way they review with lies, but I'm not sure it happens because I've never come across it.

If it exists then I will never trust the casino site including the reviews, I think we here already understand how they do it certainly should be suspicious.

I think competition could cause some parties to conflict with each other, they could use the behaviors the OP mentioned. Similar to the story about Pepsi vs Cocacola, in some ways that competition also creates an attractive story, it is the story of marketing that has tricks that we sometimes ignore and pay attention to through aggressive behavior.

Although I'm not the type of person who regularly reads reviews of gambling services, sometimes some marketers still rant about their quality and humorously put down their competitors, depending on the user, because this space is too big for us to choose from.

To those who are in new in this industry, they'd probably be amazed of that particular gambling site but to those who are experienced, we all know reviews posted in a platform could be tampered or personalized by the team itself. Much better if you will ask the players inside that gambling platform or to join communities and ask them directly. You could also engage to that platform to check and see for yourself how good it is. Given these options, I never relied with reviews alone; there are ways to fact check a platform and to avoid unnecessary gambling experiences.
We want to avoid biases which is why we should be not depending with reviews not recognized by the trusted ones. However this is how advertisement works in the first place. Having one goal which is to promote; we are free to engage in those platforms for ourselves and leave if things won't be meeting our satisfactory.
Well, not everyone would notice and be aware that they are having their own platform. There are tons of articles forming reviews and I think it is sometimes obvious if there's something fishy with the statements like if it favors certain names.

Some gambling sites made their reviews here and I like how honest those who tested the gambling sites are. There are pros and cons and I think that is needed to make the gambling site be better in the future. It is a paid review but still, the forum members are not hypocrites to just say the good things.
Outside this forum, I doubt those reviews. I'd rather just test those gambling sites myself than risk it with a reviewer who is either fake or paid a lot just to say positive things about them. It's not right.
Now, if it's a review site running its own gambling site, it gets more fishy and I would recommend looking for other ways to check its reputation. Of course, they will only reveal the pros of their site and I doubt they will tell the truth.

If that's the case, you shouldn't trust either the gambling website or its review site because for sure it might be seen as biased. After all, we were the ones who were tricked and made to feel special by their lies, and they frequently paid people to post positive reviews on their website. This is due to the possibility that the review website has a financial incentive to favor its own gambling site over others. For me it's kind of unfair from its competitors but aside from other review sites, which are open about whether or not they are legitimate. To avoid bias and scams, you should select a gaming website that treats its players fairly and openly.

Notwithstanding, it will not make any much difference as gamblers will not be forced to believe what was reviewed by them on their own site. I believe gamblers will also rely on another reviewing site for their own collaborated analysis, it is as simple as that.

Reviewing site are at liberty to have a casino just as a casino owner can play in his casino if he chooses, I don't think there is any law limiting reviewing sites from having their own casino too . It is for the gambler who is using the review site to accept or not to accept what they have reviewed on their own site.

How can a review site have its own casino site, if it did they would give the highest rating to their own casino.

But so far there hasn't been any casino reviews owning gambling? I don't find this unless there is something hidden behind it, even I myself don't believe in any review sites and just look but never a recommendation for myself.

More precisely because it has been in the forum then it is enough to know which casino is good and that I will stay playing there.

I had to quickly check one gambling site that I know of that usually drops articles on sports and tips on how to gamble if they also have a review page but it turned out that they don’t.

I don’t think that’s a good idea in the first place, having a review site is more like showing people various sites that they can choose to use for that specific purpose and if a casino therefore decides to implement a review page then it’s same as showing their customers sites that are far better than theirs to choose from, because there’s no way they’re going to be the best in the list of their reviews unless they decide to be partial in the review.

This is pretty hard to believe, next time when you see such things you should also share the link and let's see for ourselves, if this is possible I believe that such casino is hurting itself, because normally review platforms are not always trusted, they do a lot of things to get money so that they can put good reviews online for readers, how can same people run a casino? You see where this is all wrong?

People like us for example will prefer to walk away from such nonsense, because it's obviously not a trust move at all, so the platform will start writing it's review for itself to make it attractive to lure in readers?

Gambling is gambling and casinos don't or won't ever come out and tell you that you will lose more money than you will win in gambling, doing this will scare customers away, the best advice they can give is to gamble responsibly, without going too deep into details.