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legendary
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How can online gambling sites deal with gambling addiction?

It is hard until the player admits for themselves that they are an addict to gambling. Even if a gambling site put a feature that gamblers can find a counselor and talk to them it will be pointless until a person admits to his own addiction.


I think gambling sites will not care about that and the facilities for addiction. while addiction provides the biggest advantage for the gambling site? if you want to get out of addiction, you have to work on your own, gambling sites have no deal in healing it
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How can online gambling sites deal with gambling addiction?

It is hard until the player admits for themselves that they are an addict to gambling. Even if a gambling site put a feature that gamblers can find a counselor and talk to them it will be pointless until a person admits to his own addiction.





All of this the answer is self discipline to avoid addicting while playing in any kind of gambling online casino or playing in land, even if there have counseling if the people have nothing discipline it's the way to become addicting.

You cannot simply discount this problem as a non-issue and blame the individual for their actions. Every industry has a social responsibility to ensure that their product and service are safe to use. This is why we are seeing compulsory warning signs on tobacco products and also alcohol products.

They also know that excessive gambling addiction will cause more harm than good to the whole gambling industry, because regulators will step in to protect the consumers, if this goes unchallenged.  Wink 
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It's not in gambling sites' interest to fight against gambling addiction. Oppositely it seems they do their best to support it. Free spins and different kind of bonuses can be a prove for that.
Not all gambling sites do their best though as one user pointed out online casinos could have a link about gambling addiction. Free spins or any kind of promotion is not a proof that a online casinos encourages gambling addiction, they're only doing their best to attract more gamblers.

Exactly. I haven't encountered yet an online casino limiting the games of their players just because they noticed the trend behavior of that person. It is really up to the gambler how he will control himself into this addiction. It would be nice if there are online casino sites doing personal check and balance of their players thru their bets and time spent on their site. But I highly doubt that would ever happen.
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It's not in gambling sites' interest to fight against gambling addiction. Oppositely it seems they do their best to support it. Free spins and different kind of bonuses can be a prove for that.
Not all gambling sites do their best though as one user pointed out online casinos do have a link about gambling addiction making everyone aware of it. Free spins or any kind of promotion is not a proof that a online casinos encourages gambling addiction, they're only doing their best to attract more gamblers. There's a possibilty that someone could be addicted through it but without a real evidence(stats) I wouldn't say so.
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How can online gambling sites deal with gambling addiction?

It is hard until the player admits for themselves that they are an addict to gambling. Even if a gambling site put a feature that gamblers can find a counselor and talk to them it will be pointless until a person admits to his own addiction.





All of this the answer is self discipline to avoid addicting while playing in any kind of gambling online casino or playing in land, even if there have counseling if the people have nothing discipline it's the way to become addicting.
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I am curious as well.  They may be ignoring the problem in order not to lose customers. Anyway they aren't the only addictive businesses that ignore addiction problems.

The Online gambling could simply add a warning about addiction including links for treatment and prevention.

I find it hard to understand how would they do it since in the first place they have worked hard just get a lot of people but when someone starts to complain about addiction I don't think they have to tell them to stop playing in our platform. Though BnM has the right to do it since it is required upon taking licenses.
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I know "Brick n Mortar" casinos have special counseling and advisors on call for people with gambling addiction and they also apply some measures for the gamblers with a gambling addiction to "ban" themselves.

How can online gambling sites deal with gambling addiction? The Brick n Mortar" gambling sites have a social responsibility and local licensing requirements that need to be adhered to for them to operate in a specific country or town, so they cannot avoid doing this.

Please give your inputs and ideas on how this can be done with online gambling sites.  Wink
Online activities really addictive, even simple Facebook can make us addicted what more is gambling online, so it is really hard to avoid or even limit ourselves through gambling online even if they have a limit for bets if they still want to play they will still continue playing using other account or they can have multiple accounts right? So it now really depends on a gambler on how they will ban themselves from getting addicted.
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They could do it by setting up limits for losses but this would allow people to sue them. If you lost 100 thousand dollars and wanted to play some more to earn the money back but they wouldn't let you it would be reason enough to sue them.

They could count the time you spend on their site and suspend your account for a day or two but this would also be a stupid idea. If you forgot to log off and went to bed the timer would keep ticking and eventually ban you.
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It's not in gambling sites' interest to fight against gambling addiction. Oppositely it seems they do their best to support it. Free spins and different kind of bonuses can be a prove for that.
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Ok, the best suggestion I saw to resolve this issue is some link on the gambling site to a gambling addiction website that deals with gambling addictions. Another good idea, might be to add a chat option on the site, where people can reach out for help, if they cannot cope with their gambling addiction.

Why do gambling sites need to deal with this? It is quite simple, if you ruin some persons financial life, they stop gambling.  Wink 
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I think it is difficult to implement because in a sense there is 2 different paths for a business. You want the clients to play more obviously, but at the same time to be ethical and stop addicted players you must prevent them from playing more.

I have personally seen good admins in bitcoin casinos talk to problem players and work it out personally. Like they lock their accounts only to let them chat but not gamble.
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How can online gambling sites deal with gambling addiction?

It is hard until the player admits for themselves that they are an addict to gambling. Even if a gambling site put a feature that gamblers can find a counselor and talk to them it will be pointless until a person admits to his own addiction.


yes I agree with you addiction will came only for the person who had a lots of interest and time to spend with can be so there is no other responsibility will came for the addition of a single person.
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I think most of the sites have a hyper link to gambling addicts or need help kind of services but those are not directly related to the casinos. They’re more like NGO based organisations and casino doesn’t really put something from their site. However, they do promote help for the gambling addicts and that’s important. A forum just for crypto gambling addicts is much desirable at this point.


A forum for gambling addict will be useful as well.  But I wonder why you prefer crypto based forum for the addicts. I think they will get thesame experience from both non crypto forum for addicts and crypto forum for addicts
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..., so these things are useless.

Exactly

So whats the point of providing? Another tool for casinos to say that they have advantage over others?  Tongue


Untill or unless the gambler realises that he has a gambling addiction and really wants to stop it , he can't control himself from gambling. Self-Exclusion in online platforms are useless if the person again goes out of control at early point.


IMO best course of action should be to help the user's with some blogs or readings about controlling their addiction in brief.
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That's a good feature for a site but at the end it's up to someone if he would take it or not. Especially in online, such thing should be done personally. If it's just in online, things might not fully work and ended up owner is just wasting money, it's all about business after all. For me, addiction can only help mainly by yourself, others are guide.
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Perhaps, the online gambling site can open courses or make conversation for the addicting person to gambling so they can share their problem and find a solution. But it will be difficult since if we want to make a consultation with someone, we need to talk face to face so they can understand the problem and can help us.

To be honest, I don't have any vision about this because I never heard this way was applied before (or maybe it exists?).
I don’t think not having a face to face consultation will really be a big deal, it shouldn’t be a challenge, after all people read books and get transformed without a direct contact with the author and am even sure they could also have a provision for video chat.

It is really a good idea but I suggest a provision for a link to find out the symptoms of an addicted gambler or questions and answers from where they deduce those suffering from addiction because most addicted gamblers will never admit they need help nor they need to stay away from gambling. This is the reason they do realize only after severe consequences of addictions.

Some people prefer to make a conversation face to face to consult their problem, but the other might be fine to make a conversation with using a video call.

So perhaps, we need to ask a simple question to people who feel that they are addicted to gambling before they consult to us and from their answer, we could determine how big their addicting and how to solve their problem.

We can hope that soon, and these courses will be open for the addicting people to gambling, so they know where they need to go. And for people who are not yet start addicted, they know how to prevent to become addicting to gambling.
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I haven't played in real casinos but I am pretty sure that they would oppose a player to play again if they happen to try again before the expiration of self-exclusion period but in online casinos how can you keep things up?

That's the difference between online and physical casinos.If they both decide on giving out self-exclusion period then implementing will be different.
We know that online things will really be hard to stop due to accessibility.No one can stop you to play if you do have the funds online, so these things are useless.
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First of all very interesting discussion and watching this had made me curious to ask this (hope that OP doesn't have problem with it) that:

Does this online way of controlling gambling addiction by providing an option of "self exclusion" works? Suppose I have addiction problem and I applied to be self-excluded for some months and the next day I received some money that I can afford to lose and register again at the same site. So whats the use of implementation of self-exclusion in online platforms at all?

I haven't played in real casinos but I am pretty sure that they would oppose a player to play again if they happen to try again before the expiry of self-exclusion period but in online casinos how can you keep things up?
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It is not their responsibility to keep players out of addiction, they do have some general guidelines in their website which gamblers should follow in order to not fall in addiction.

However the casinos do not care much if a gambler becomes or not becomes addicted as they clearly have a point in their guidelines to gsmble responsibly and with that they remove their responsibility from them.
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It is great that this kind of gambling sites are being responsible for these kinds of things but to be honest, this is not their problem. It is kind of them to help those gambling addicts but they should not always put themselves on the part of helping those people, it should start with the people around that addict. As far as I know, people around that people cause them to be addictive into something and it will be better if they have their family, friends or loved ones in their side helping them. Also, since you said that it is a gambling site, how would they know that that person is really addicted and what if that person denies that he is addicted?
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