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Originally Posted by KingOfFelt
Unsubstantiated paranoia does no one any good. We can detect possible collusion by simply seeing one hand, whereas you cannot detect "riggedness" using just your memory. Fear of collusion is often substantiated and has led to security measures.
As I said, the extreme fears of the individual themselves do not matter for the system to work. I have no doubt that Stars gets a ton of emails yelling at them about their play money tables being rigged. Those people's fears will never be satisfied.
However, the nature of the human condition is to be suspicious of things at times, and certainly many apply to the relatively new online world. Issues like security (against cheaters and of the balances themselves) are not crazed "my AA got cracked, the world hates me" beliefs.
These are genuine concerns of the customers and a smart company will spend the time and money to help alleviate those concerns. The Stars secure token thing is another new example of how it is helping it's customers worried about their accounts being secure.
On more specific things like collusion, indeed the fear is often substantiated. I caught a couple on Stars once, reported it and Stars took appropriate action. However, most times the person who lost just lost and nothing more. They have to be comforted that the site is doing the proper measures to ensure the games are secure.
Most understand that and accept that when it is explained and that is why the system works. The extreme fanatics do not matter in that regard.
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Originally Posted by KingOfFelt
My response was to Soopers' rejection of the concept that evidence is important aspect of a debate. Unsubstantiated fear is not.
He is an extremist in his views and as a rule evidence is not really on top of the to do list of any extremist. You can ask him for evidence all day long and it will do you no good, that is not what his beliefs are based on.
All I tried to do was show him that there are people with his exact same beliefs except for the opposite side (ie: small stacks win too much) and I also suggested that while he is free to create any beliefs he likes, he should at least make the effort to have them match the simplest ways people can check them.
I will never ask him to prove his theories or provide evidence since that is not how his mind works. He knows what he says is true because he knows what he says is true because he believes what he says is true.
Go to an abortion rally and you can see people on both sides of the issue demonstrate the exact same behavior like this, only with opposite views on their issue.
You are wasting your time trying to go about the "provide logic and evidence" approach as that will never go anywhere. Still, it is your time to do with as you like, so good luck on the quest.