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Quote from: Hispo on November 12, 2023, 04:16:16 PM

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Quote from: Hispo on November 10, 2023, 12:53:37 PM

I am not talking about regulations on the casinos themselves, actually. I am talking about groups and organizations which are supposed to help people to cope with addictions and situations which have negatively affected their standards of living, which are the ones unfunded and lacking economic resources.
On the other hand, if we talk about government agencies which are supposed to be a branch of the government, then it would be foolish to refer to them as unfunded organizations. They are funded by the taxpayers' dollars and are one of the most important branches, it just takes to look at the American IRS, which funding goes up the billions of dollars.

When you mentioned a group that helps people fight addictions do you mean something in the form of a none governmental group that promotes and shares the ideas and supports that get people out of the huk of addiction because it is the only way an external body will get involved in the life of the gamblers whois already addicted.

But then also, we have some government agencies such as the correctional centres, and rehabilitation centres that focus on treating cases of addictions that gambling addictions fall between.

Yes, that is what I meant, private and non profit organizations which try to improve the quality of life of those who struggle with any kind of addiction. Also, I those rehabilitation centers which are supported by the government, depending on the country one lives in, they can be either pretty good or pretty bad for the well being of their inmates. In my country, mental health is a topic which can be very stigmatized and the rehabilitation centers are more like prisons for families to throw their addicted children or parents, instead a place where people get the ttention they need to reincorporate themselves into society.
I have a friend who was in one of them and the living conditions are low.

Since you mentioned rehab centers, I assume there are some of them as well in your country of origin, would you care to let me know how good they are and whether you consider they may help to tackle the problem of those who are addicted to substances or to gambling?

I used to see a lot of such NGOs that help addicts to overcome addictions in the form of long-term treatment which requires a lot of work from the end of the agency that seeks to help the gambler, and this is very important and measures that aid the addicts after they already have the self acknowledgement and willingness to overcome that hold of addictions, most times those organisation even go as far as changing the environment where the treatment will take place.

But when you talk about government own rehabs, around here, their presence is not luad or felt like that of the NGOs, I know there are government own rehabs, but I am also aware that some of them are not up to 100% standard to be able to offer such an escape ruit for the addicts.

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Quote from: Wiwo on November 11, 2023, 04:41:44 PM

Quote from: Hispo on November 10, 2023, 12:53:37 PM

I am not talking about regulations on the casinos themselves, actually. I am talking about groups and organizations which are supposed to help people to cope with addictions and situations which have negatively affected their standards of living, which are the ones unfunded and lacking economic resources.
On the other hand, if we talk about government agencies which are supposed to be a branch of the government, then it would be foolish to refer to them as unfunded organizations. They are funded by the taxpayers' dollars and are one of the most important branches, it just takes to look at the American IRS, which funding goes up the billions of dollars.

When you mentioned a group that helps people fight addictions do you mean something in the form of a none governmental group that promotes and shares the ideas and supports that get people out of the huk of addiction because it is the only way an external body will get involved in the life of the gamblers whois already addicted.

But then also, we have some government agencies such as the correctional centres, and rehabilitation centres that focus on treating cases of addictions that gambling addictions fall between.

Yes, that is what I meant, private and non profit organizations which try to improve the quality of life of those who struggle with any kind of addiction. Also, I those rehabilitation centers which are supported by the government, depending on the country one lives in, they can be either pretty good or pretty bad for the well being of their inmates. In my country, mental health is a topic which can be very stigmatized and the rehabilitation centers are more like prisons for families to throw their addicted children or parents, instead a place where people get the ttention they need to reincorporate themselves into society.
I have a friend who was in one of them and the living conditions are low.

Since you mentioned rehab centers, I assume there are some of them as well in your country of origin, would you care to let me know how good they are and whether you consider they may help to talke the problem of those who are addicted to substances or to gambling?

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Quote from: mak013 on November 11, 2023, 04:01:51 AM

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There are no problems with registration. But i don`t want to register. At least i don`t want to leave any data for unknown site. I get enough spam letters yet to add some more. And without registration i can`t see anything interesting except several videos. Everybody can choose himself to register and test site, or just leave it. The OP asked feedback - he got it.

I think the data they get from the registration is the only thing that they can get from providing free access or free guide on how to quit gambling. Most of us will put dummy details into the registration form to achieve anonymity and I don't see a problem with that but I think the developers are thinking to use the data to improve their contents and monitor the flow of users in their application. The website has a good intention and I think that a few minutes and false information is enough for us to get contents on how to quit gambling.

I haven`t try it. But i don`t sure that everything is like it looks. If they just want to help and give you such content for free - they don`t need to make us register. And i think that at least i will get spam messages.
And i repeat it one more time. You can register if you want, it is your decision. I don`t want to register, it is my decision. We both can choose what to do ourselves. It is my feedback for the OP. He can change something or not, it is his decision.

A person's advice to quit gambling doesn't do much if someone doesn't try it themselves, there is a website with some scripts on how to help a gambler quit gambling. Quitting gambling requires hard work on your part. Gambling is one thing that can easily make a person addicted to its deep addiction. To save ourselves from this addiction, we have to be careful from the beginning of gambling. But when a person becomes deeply addicted, it becomes very difficult for him to quit gambling. So I think it's enough if someone tries to gamble on their own. I don't think it's very logical to quit gambling with the help of a website

It doesn`t matter how someone decide to quit gambling. If someone need assistance - ok, he can use the site, the book, something else. In such situation all choices can be right decision. I don`t need it and haven`t try, so i can`t recommend the best way.
But right here we see the site, that requires registration and promises to help. I don`t sure that it is really help, without any requirements.

If someone is trying to get rid of gambling from his mind and looking for different ways then this site can work for him. But there are very few people who want to quit gambling. And those who want to leave Ajwa can leave themselves. But thanks also to whoever made this site because it might save someone's life from deep gambling addiction. I am not speaking against this site but if one is not trying to quit gambling then this site is of no use to him.

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Quote from: Hispo on November 10, 2023, 12:53:37 PM

I am not talking about regulations on the casinos themselves, actually. I am talking about groups and organizations which are supposed to help people to cope with addictions and situations which have negatively affected their standards of living, which are the ones unfunded and lacking economic resources.
On the other hand, if we talk about government agencies which are supposed to be a branch of the government, then it would be foolish to refer to them as unfunded organizations. They are funded by the taxpayers' dollars and are one of the most important branches, it just takes to look at the American IRS, which funding goes up the billions of dollars.

When you mentioned a group that helps people fight addictions do you mean something in the form of a none governmental group that promotes and shares the ideas and supports that get people out of the huk of addiction because it is the only way an external body will get involved in the life of the gamblers whois already addicted.

But then also, we have some government agencies such as the correctional centres, and rehabilitation centres that focus on treating cases of addictions that gambling addictions fall between.

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Quote from: wallet4bitcoin on November 10, 2023, 05:35:39 PM

I will like to know if this is a professional consultancy service or just opinions and possibly methodology used on former addicts.

Most likely it is going to be a compilation of experiences of addicts and those who have been able to get help, of course about what they did to be free from addiction and gambling in general. Most of these service that is built on the problem of gambler's perspective are practical steps and strategies used by gamblers who have been affected earlier. I have gone through the link and it covers a very wide range of causes, effect and solutions to gamblers seeking help.

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Quote from: pawanjain on November 11, 2023, 10:54:14 AM

Quote from: cheezcarls on November 11, 2023, 09:32:02 AM

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The website is available in English, Spanish, Swedish, and soon French and Portuguese.

It would be great for you to add another language which is Filipino as there are more gamblers here in the Philippines who are struggling to control their addiction.

As I have checked your website, it looks neat and decent to me at least. I choose not to register though as I do not want to input my real details into it.

When it comes to your app in the Google Play Store, despite having 1,000 downloads there is no honest and genuine feedback from those who are actually downloading and installing it compare to the Apple App Store, you did have a couple of 5-star reviews.

In this area alone, you really need to push for organic honest (and not paid) reviews in the Google Play Store. Just my own honest opinion.

In my view, I think the site look and feel can be improvised further. The design looks a little dull.
The content is good though as there are many videos and membership forum.
Coming to the language, I agree with you that few more languages can be added.
OP can either create a poll on this post itself or create new one or may be fetch data as to where the number of gambling addicts are higher.

I agree with knowing the data of which game has more gamblers. It could be a lead to have a more efficient strategy to help gamblers avoid addiction. With the site’s UI and appearance, it is indeed needing some enhancements to make reading more comfortable. Some would say the content would matter more than the appearance but technically speaking, the interior of a platform plays a huge role. It would make a platform easier to understand and would be more encouraging and interesting to check out. If it is just ways to cope up with addiction of an unwanted behavior, there are other ebooks and articles to help you but things would be better asking those who experienced such state of mind, to learn from their mistakes. All in all, this is indeed a good project.

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Quote from: cheezcarls on November 11, 2023, 09:32:02 AM

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The website is available in English, Spanish, Swedish, and soon French and Portuguese.

It would be great for you to add another language which is Filipino as there are more gamblers here in the Philippines who are struggling to control their addiction.

As I have checked your website, it looks neat and decent to me at least. I choose not to register though as I do not want to input my real details into it.

When it comes to your app in the Google Play Store, despite having 1,000 downloads there is no honest and genuine feedback from those who are actually downloading and installing it compare to the Apple App Store, you did have a couple of 5-star reviews.

In this area alone, you really need to push for organic honest (and not paid) reviews in the Google Play Store. Just my own honest opinion

Wont really be that much of an issue if he do lacks feedback but at least on their app on apple app store does have a couple of 5 star reviews then we dont know if its real or not but at least
if this ones turns out to be real then it would really be enough to tell that this is really that something relevant. Just like on what those other words been saying that since this one is totally free
then it is really that something useful if there's someone who would really be tending to make use of this site. The thing i dont like on sharing up your information?
I doubt that majority of people would really be doing such thing unless if they dont really care about privacy.

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Quote from: swogerino on November 11, 2023, 04:28:14 AM

It is a great initiative no matter how it goes.I don't know if many people will be able to quit gambling for good through your site but a sure thing is that it is better to have this site than don't have it at all.I don't agree though that addicted people cannot go to responsible gambling first and I speak this from personal experience as I was once heavily addicted and since then I have switched to a preset budget which is the same as responsible gambling,meaning I only play this budget now which is money I can afford to lose and I feel good doing this from some years now.

Definitely a great one but I do believe that their website could do more cleaning because it still looks like it's still 2003 and it looks to me like those old health magazines with pastel colors, if only I am knowledgeable in web developing or something related to creating website, I would've been able to offer my help for you although it's probably going to take me awhile to do it. That's pretty quick work of you to go from being heavily addicted to gambling then suddenly becoming a recovering addict by just having a set budget which I think is admirable but at the same time make me a skeptic that it's a possibility.

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Quote from: cheezcarls on November 11, 2023, 09:32:02 AM

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The website is available in English, Spanish, Swedish, and soon French and Portuguese.

It would be great for you to add another language which is Filipino as there are more gamblers here in the Philippines who are struggling to control their addiction.

As I have checked your website, it looks neat and decent to me at least. I choose not to register though as I do not want to input my real details into it.

When it comes to your app in the Google Play Store, despite having 1,000 downloads there is no honest and genuine feedback from those who are actually downloading and installing it compare to the Apple App Store, you did have a couple of 5-star reviews.

In this area alone, you really need to push for organic honest (and not paid) reviews in the Google Play Store. Just my own honest opinion.

In my view, I think the site look and feel can be improvised further. The design looks a little dull.
The content is good though as there are many videos and membership forum.
Coming to the language, I agree with you that few more languages can be added.
OP can either create a poll on this post itself or create new one or may be fetch data as to where the number of gambling addicts are higher.

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The website is available in English, Spanish, Swedish, and soon French and Portuguese.

It would be great for you to add another language which is Filipino as there are more gamblers here in the Philippines who are struggling to control their addiction.

As I have checked your website, it looks neat and decent to me at least. I choose not to register though as I do not want to input my real details into it.

When it comes to your app in the Google Play Store, despite having 1,000 downloads there is no honest and genuine feedback from those who are actually downloading and installing it compare to the Apple App Store, you did have a couple of 5-star reviews.

In this area alone, you really need to push for organic honest (and not paid) reviews in the Google Play Store. Just my own honest opinion.

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Quote from: michellee on November 05, 2023, 09:43:38 AM

I guess this is a new approach that @OP is trying to develop. Instead of testing his level of addiction, we will be asked to test his level of happiness. And I tried the test to see what my level of happiness was.

But unfortunately, we have to register first to see the results. Maybe later, I will decide to register. But I think I can still handle gambling well so I'm not a serious gambling addict.

Thanks for sharing it with us @OP. Hopefully, your site can help people reduce their gambling addiction. They can use your site well and it can provide benefits for them.

That's a different approach that was probably given some scientific study. Because it actually looks like that "Happiness Level" is a practical way of measuring if a person has the vulnerability to be a gambling addict, OR an addict of other things in general like alcohol and/or drugs.

It also makes sense, because if a person is generally unhappy in his life, then he/she is a low dopamine individual. Therefore, a quick dopamine rush from making a bet, which will also require a larger and larger bet to get the same amount of rush, will definitely get him/her addicted and break himself/herself financially.

Good approach, OP.

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It is a great initiative no matter how it goes.I don't know if many people will be able to quit gambling for good through your site but a sure thing is that it is better to have this site than don't have it at all.I don't agree though that addicted people cannot go to responsible gambling first and I speak this from personal experience as I was once heavily addicted and since then I have switched to a preset budget which is the same as responsible gambling,meaning I only play this budget now which is money I can afford to lose and I feel good doing this from some years now.

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There are no problems with registration. But i don`t want to register. At least i don`t want to leave any data for unknown site. I get enough spam letters yet to add some more. And without registration i can`t see anything interesting except several videos. Everybody can choose himself to register and test site, or just leave it. The OP asked feedback - he got it.

I think the data they get from the registration is the only thing that they can get from providing free access or free guide on how to quit gambling. Most of us will put dummy details into the registration form to achieve anonymity and I don't see a problem with that but I think the developers are thinking to use the data to improve their contents and monitor the flow of users in their application. The website has a good intention and I think that a few minutes and false information is enough for us to get contents on how to quit gambling.

I haven`t try it. But i don`t sure that everything is like it looks. If they just want to help and give you such content for free - they don`t need to make us register. And i think that at least i will get spam messages.
And i repeat it one more time. You can register if you want, it is your decision. I don`t want to register, it is my decision. We both can choose what to do ourselves. It is my feedback for the OP. He can change something or not, it is his decision.

A person's advice to quit gambling doesn't do much if someone doesn't try it themselves, there is a website with some scripts on how to help a gambler quit gambling. Quitting gambling requires hard work on your part. Gambling is one thing that can easily make a person addicted to its deep addiction. To save ourselves from this addiction, we have to be careful from the beginning of gambling. But when a person becomes deeply addicted, it becomes very difficult for him to quit gambling. So I think it's enough if someone tries to gamble on their own. I don't think it's very logical to quit gambling with the help of a website

It doesn`t matter how someone decide to quit gambling. If someone need assistance - ok, he can use the site, the book, something else. In such situation all choices can be right decision. I don`t need it and haven`t try, so i can`t recommend the best way.
But right here we see the site, that requires registration and promises to help. I don`t sure that it is really help, without any requirements.

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I see your point. Pure waste of time. And it can be frustrating when you're required to register just to explore a website. While registration can offer benefits websites should allow users to access some features without it to make the initial experience more user-friendly.

If they really want to help us they don't need us to register IMO.

I think not all addicts can be generalized to the same level of addiction, instead they should be treated differently. You know that there have been many articles on gambling addiction tips, are they effective in treating all addicts or do some of them still have to go to a consultant?

I really don't think that consulting services should be tested by ordinary users.

If there’s no registration fee, then why afraid to register beside you can just use other information if you want to remain anonymous and want’s to solve your problem in private with a help of course of this kind of program. The sites needs the traffic for them to make a money, not unless they offer a program with a fee. It should be fine if ordinary people wants to access this site maybe they just want to get an information on how they can save themselves from getting addict in gambling and hoping that this site can really help them.

As long it is free then i dont see any harm on something yet we know that even we do live into this world which free things is unlikely but there are still some individuals who are really that passionate on giving out some help without having those extra cost and this is where these kind of services do really been mold on on which it is really that something commendable and something that could be appreciated. We do know that
no one will really be that exerting effort and using up their finances or funding on something that would be given for free on which just like on what others been saying that it is really truly commendable on what
they've been doing on here. It is surely that helpful to those people who have found out themselves to be that in gambling addiction.

Actually you could really be able to quit on your own if you are really that willing or serious on quitting on which you wont really be needing any help for you to quit
but since each person is different when it comes to mindset and other correlated things then these things would really be that relevant such as this.

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I consider your strategy on how to stop gambling addiction a great move and marketing your product in a space where gambling service are offered to the detriment of the user is a wise decision.

I will like to know if this is a professional consultancy service or just opinions and possibly methodology used on former addicts.

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Quote from: xLays on November 07, 2023, 07:57:43 AM

I see your point. Pure waste of time. And it can be frustrating when you're required to register just to explore a website. While registration can offer benefits websites should allow users to access some features without it to make the initial experience more user-friendly.

If they really want to help us they don't need us to register IMO.

I think not all addicts can be generalized to the same level of addiction, instead they should be treated differently. You know that there have been many articles on gambling addiction tips, are they effective in treating all addicts or do some of them still have to go to a consultant?

I really don't think that consulting services should be tested by ordinary users.

If there’s no registration fee, then why afraid to register beside you can just use other information if you want to remain anonymous and want’s to solve your problem in private with a help of course of this kind of program. The sites needs the traffic for them to make a money, not unless they offer a program with a fee. It should be fine if ordinary people wants to access this site maybe they just want to get an information on how they can save themselves from getting addict in gambling and hoping that this site can really help them.

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Quote from: mak013 on November 07, 2023, 02:42:48 AM

the site looks interesting. But the main thing i don`t like that i need to register. And everywhere i see the button of registration. And i can`t test site totally without registration.

It's normal to have a registration button since they're going to give away a lot of materials for free for those who want to quit gambling and this could really be a great help for them. The data that they'll gather through registration could be used by them to have that data sent to the advertisers for them to earn with this free service. This is what we get from free services, we're the product but at the same time it's like give and take for both users and the platform itself. They have a good initiative and advocacy on this one because many gamblers really need help.

While many of those don't have money anymore to seek for professional help, a free service like this is their go-to for their own assessment and help that they need to have. It's just free to register so if it's something that couldn't really make you test them, it's okay as there's no forcing of people to register.

Although they have materials that you can go through their website without having the need to register. All of those information that are displayed, that's all what you will get without registration and they're not that bad at all.

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Quote from: xLays on November 07, 2023, 07:57:43 AM

I see your point. Pure waste of time. And it can be frustrating when you're required to register just to explore a website. While registration can offer benefits websites should allow users to access some features without it to make the initial experience more user-friendly.

If they really want to help us they don't need us to register IMO.

I think not all addicts can be generalized to the same level of addiction, instead they should be treated differently. You know that there have been many articles on gambling addiction tips, are they effective in treating all addicts or do some of them still have to go to a consultant?

I really don't think that consulting services should be tested by ordinary users.

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Quote from: xLays on November 07, 2023, 07:57:43 AM

Quote from: mak013 on November 07, 2023, 02:42:48 AM

the site looks interesting. But the main thing i don`t like that i need to register. And everywhere i see the button of registration. And i can`t test site totally without registration.
It is possible that there are lots of opportunities after registration and i think that at least part of them really need registration(like different challenges). But the same time i must have an opportunity to use some services without registration - i don`t like it. So i just looked at the site and closed it.

I see your point. Pure waste of time. And it can be frustrating when you're required to register just to explore a website. While registration can offer benefits websites should allow users to access some features without it to make the initial experience more user-friendly.

If they really want to help us they don't need us to register IMO.

It's probably for the purpose of statistics and allows them to gather some information about people who need help, their background and all that. Also, it allows them to send people questions later if and how they've managed to recover, get some feedback about the things they could improve.

Getting testimonials from people is another important thing. Sites like this can apply for government grants and testimonials are along with user stats are an important part of that process.
Making you register = money in one way of the other. If all fails, they can sell the data to a casino for targeted ads and email spam Wink

It's the worst possible scenario, but the keyword is "possible."

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Quote from: Dunamisx on November 07, 2023, 05:58:20 PM

It's so annoying when one is left helpless in using a casino when the contact system aren't giving the necessary attention to guide through.

It is mostly because agencies which are supposed to help people with problems like alcoholism, drug abuse, suicide ideation and gambling addiction are commonly unfunded, since most of them are non-profit organizations.

How can the agencies regulate gambling, this is beyond their power or reach, they may try to but it's not an easy thing to make regulations in this kind of situations, the agencies cannot be responsible for the way we gamble, wether to our own advantage or not they don't care, they only work to apprehend those found abusing or violating the ethics of gambling by getting engaged in any of the above mentioned characters.

I am not talking about regulations on the casinos themselves, actually. I am talking about groups and organizations which are supposed to help people to cope with addictions and situations which have negatively affected their standards of living, which are the one unfunded and lacking economical resources.
On the other hand, if we talk about government agencies which are supposed to be a branch of the government, then it would be foolish to refer to them as unfunded organizations. They are funded by the taxpayers' dollars and are one of the most important branches, it just takes to look at the American IRS, which funding goes up the billions of dollars.

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