Paul Debenham
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I find it very interesting reading people's massively different opinions/suggestions/accusations/positive and negative comments about casino streamers. Having watched a number of the people featured on this site and many others over the last year or so, I thought I’d bore you with my 'pearls of wisdom’ too, starting with the basics…
- People who bitch about legitimate streamers [my definition of a legitimate streamer is someone who plays with their own money irrespective of whatever terms they’ve agreed with the given casino and doesn’t mislead their viewers] acting as affiliate marketers by signing people up through their links. I find it beyond bizarre that people take issue with this. My question to those who do: Would you spend, for example’s sake, 15hrs/week online + considerable time replying to messages, dealing with admin, etc… and not expect some form of financial recompense for the entertainment you provide? I strongly doubt it.
- Signing up via affiliate links. To play and subsequently withdraw funds should you win on any casino, you must be an adult. Accordingly, the suggestion to sign up via streamer’s affiliate links = a choice made by an adult. Sign up as a grown-up making a grown-up decision if you wish to. Equally just enjoy the free entertainment and don't if you don't want to. Obviously you are supporting the streamer you sign up through via their agreement with the casino. Your play won’t be affected versus simply creating your own account on the same casino. Anyone who takes a moral “it’s not right to profit from someone else’s losses” stance needs to man up and smell the coffee in my opinion. Your objection should lie with gambling in general and not the individual streamer if you do violently object to this kind of affiliate marketing.
- Donations. People who moan about streamers who accept donations really annoy me. As per the decision to sign up through their links, this is an entirely voluntary thing you can choose to do or not do. Very few forms of entertainment come for free last time I checked. In you go to watch a football match or see a film at the cinema, you pay. You can watch streamers for absolutely no fee. If you want to and can show your appreciation by sending them a donation, why not?
- “Fake” streamers. Not my cup of tea. If you are just a casino's human puppet demonstrating the games with a fake money agreement, make that fact crystal clear to your viewers. You deserve zero respect otherwise. As this never happens, I dislike you. Not so coincidentally, the fake streamers always come across at t***s to me and the real-deal streamers generally strike me as decent people I’d get along with.
- Encouraging sensible gambling: again, this almost always seems to go hand-in-hand with everything else I’ve whinged about. The streamers I like make a point of firmly recommending that viewers only ever gamble within their means either verbally or using twitch/YouTube chat. Some of the massive human dogshits mascarading as genuine streamers seem far more reluctant to highlight this on a regular basis.
Rant over. Keep up the great work, esteemed streamers!
Very good website btw.
- People who bitch about legitimate streamers [my definition of a legitimate streamer is someone who plays with their own money irrespective of whatever terms they’ve agreed with the given casino and doesn’t mislead their viewers] acting as affiliate marketers by signing people up through their links. I find it beyond bizarre that people take issue with this. My question to those who do: Would you spend, for example’s sake, 15hrs/week online + considerable time replying to messages, dealing with admin, etc… and not expect some form of financial recompense for the entertainment you provide? I strongly doubt it.
- Signing up via affiliate links. To play and subsequently withdraw funds should you win on any casino, you must be an adult. Accordingly, the suggestion to sign up via streamer’s affiliate links = a choice made by an adult. Sign up as a grown-up making a grown-up decision if you wish to. Equally just enjoy the free entertainment and don't if you don't want to. Obviously you are supporting the streamer you sign up through via their agreement with the casino. Your play won’t be affected versus simply creating your own account on the same casino. Anyone who takes a moral “it’s not right to profit from someone else’s losses” stance needs to man up and smell the coffee in my opinion. Your objection should lie with gambling in general and not the individual streamer if you do violently object to this kind of affiliate marketing.
- Donations. People who moan about streamers who accept donations really annoy me. As per the decision to sign up through their links, this is an entirely voluntary thing you can choose to do or not do. Very few forms of entertainment come for free last time I checked. In you go to watch a football match or see a film at the cinema, you pay. You can watch streamers for absolutely no fee. If you want to and can show your appreciation by sending them a donation, why not?
- “Fake” streamers. Not my cup of tea. If you are just a casino's human puppet demonstrating the games with a fake money agreement, make that fact crystal clear to your viewers. You deserve zero respect otherwise. As this never happens, I dislike you. Not so coincidentally, the fake streamers always come across at t***s to me and the real-deal streamers generally strike me as decent people I’d get along with.
- Encouraging sensible gambling: again, this almost always seems to go hand-in-hand with everything else I’ve whinged about. The streamers I like make a point of firmly recommending that viewers only ever gamble within their means either verbally or using twitch/YouTube chat. Some of the massive human dogshits mascarading as genuine streamers seem far more reluctant to highlight this on a regular basis.
Rant over. Keep up the great work, esteemed streamers!
Very good website btw.
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