Topic: The SportsBet.io Gang - page 4. (Read 1281 times)

I'm not sure what you consider illegal here.
Yes, it is clear that Sportsbet dominates here and the fact that several high-ranking members are included only means that they have invested wisely. for example, I did not receive any offer to wear their signature or anything similar, but why would I when I am not particularly active or recognizable in the gambling part of the forum.

It is interesting that as a feature you mention how merit is distributed in Sportsbet threads, but you don't mention that Games & Rounds is full of Sportsbet's giveaways and raffles, and how much they have invested in building a brand on this forum. You don't think that this is one of the reasons for their dominance in gambling here?

From this group, only LFC_Bitcoin is a merit source (there is not much to complain about his contribution on this forum), everyone else is free to give earned smerit as they think is best.

I don't know if you are originally Sportsbet's competition, but nothing prevents you or any casino from applying the same strategy. Hire a few reputable members to take care of your (or any other casino) brand.

Unless there are no serious scam accusations against Sportsbet, there is not much room for complaint here.

I don't understand why you talk about Livecasino here, I just checked and during the 6 last months only 2 merits have been given onto the Livecasino ANN thread, one from me and the other one from slaman29. So you're wrong, very few merits are given there actually.

Regarding the other threads you pointed out I don't think more merits are given there than on some other threads, like the WO thread for example. And I don't think they are particularly undeserved. There are many fake gamblers shitposting in the gambling section, so personally I like when I see people posting about their real gambling experience and I think it's a good thing if they receive merits for that, instead of spammers.

You didn't post the username of these gang members; you just posted the merit link, so let me do it for you.

LFC_Bitcoin, jeremypwr, buwaytress (This will notify them just in case they're using the BitcoinTalk Telegram notification bot).
They are all Legendary Members. I think it doesn't matter if they're giving each other Merit.

It's like you unlocked a secret for those seeking merits to rank up and I won't be surprised if some new accounts could be flooding their thread with edited pictures of sportsbet in their phone in the next few days hehe. Seriously speaking though it's not like they are sending merits indiscriminately in their own thread to be considered as incentivized posting.

I'm not really sure that I have posted on that thread or not but I have also received some merits from LFC_Bitcoin several times on WO thread and on few other threads. If a member is spending his merits on a thread which he likes a lot or somehow is present on that thread then what's wrong with that?

As far as I know, LFC_Bitcoin is one of the most reputed members of this forum and he's also quite knowledgeable at the same time. I don't really know much about the other members and I haven't had any conversations with them but I can say that LFC is a reputable members and you should do your research once again before accusing him.

The posts where you received merits are high-quality topics that deserve those merits for the information. The merits given by him on SB thread are random and no post is worthy of one.

I am not discrediting the good work he does but highlighting the shady practices outside.

All of them are Sportsbet employee and you cannot complain about what they would do with their own earned merits. I don't know about LFC if he is working with SportsBet or not, but I assume he works with them as well. Only LFC is a merit source among them and the rest are the general users like us. LFC mostly spent his merits on those threads and don't forget that he spent his merits on the Wall observer thread as well. If you check my merit history, You will notice that I received 20 merits last week from LFC, and non of my posts were in those mentioned threads. This means, he often visits other threads and looks for a good post to dump his sMerits. Now, If forum admins allows him to spent his merits in a thread where he works for the company, you should not complain about it. This is not against forum rules. Prove me wrong if you can.

Sportsbet.io is using several high profile users to dominate the forum. Below are some of them:

Incentivizing users to post in their topic (Against the forum rules)

Any kind of incentive to post in your thread is against the rules. But sportsbet gang have found an easy way to bypass this rule.

Gang member #1 - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=379487

You will notice 90% of the merits are given to people posting their wins, discussing about sports in the sportsbet.io or livecasino.io (sister sites) threads. And the posts are nothing spectacular either, it's simple posts showing their wins and discussing normal topics like soccer.

Merits are hard to earn and when people notice that LFC will shower some merits just for posting anything in their topic, they post and hence it's clearly incentivized posting.

Gang member #2 - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=137185

This guy holds several Sportsbet.io giveaways and hence should be considered an employee. 100% of his merits are given to posters in Sportsbet.io thread.

Gang member #3 - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=901859

Again the same patterns. These people are obviously paid to lure people into posting in the sportbet.io thread and keep it bumping.


Anyone speaking against sportsbet.io is attacked with red trust for no reason.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5439809.40

I don't see where the OP lied in the above case but was given -ve trust. He was impatient and yeah should have remained calmed but not many of us would be able to remain calm when the sportsbook denies to pay the winnings from bets placed on NFL FINAL, which can't be rigged I think.

Misleading marketing by Sportsbet.io called out by Peeps Place

Sportsbet.io created a NEW thread despite already announcing in their original thread about the same. If every casino were to created threads for big wins, the forum would be a mess. Anyways, that's the least of the issues here.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/unreal-sportsbetio-pays-out-a-42000000-usdt-casino-win-5480517

Steve from sportsbet advertises as "Sportsbet.io pays out a $42,000,000 USDT Casino WIN!" which was misleading since it's the provider who pays out the winnings not sportbet and it was called out publicly by Peeps who was then attacked by the Gang members, as expected.

Over 100 merits were given by LFC on the posts about this record win

Paid press releases are being shared to mislead users into believing that sportsbet actually paid the winnings.