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You obviously have a vested interest in this so there's really no point in arguing. You're going to continue to deflect facts and repeat your "consenting adults" line. BTW, get off that already, you sound like you're talking about sex. You're also mischaracterizing the whole issue. There is nothing inherently wrong about gambling. This is about the business practices of draft kings, fan dual, and the like. The games portray themselves as being a fun way to compete for cash, that everyone has an equal chance. But the game is unfairly tilted towards the elite players with the simulation software and the companies do nothing about it. It's like if you bought a lottery ticket with the expectation that everyone has an equal shot at the jackpot, but in reality there's a 1% subset of players that take 90% of the winnings because they have an unfair advantage via software. The causal fan doesn't know all this. They would not "consent" if they had the facts. OOTP partnering up with a company like that is very distasteful. Quote:
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Your bowling anology doesn’t apply. A bowler with no coaching is going to obviously know that other people have it available to them. There’s also no idea that there’s an equal chance they can win thousands of dollars
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You’ve also lost all credibility blaming trump and Obama for this lol. No you can’t block me but you could, you know... ignore it...
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I didn't even notice the ads (and didn't even know who Draft Kings are) before reading this post (and who knows how many other people like me). So you are basically making free advertising for a company you think should not be advertised for.
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Yeah, that ad was a bit too obtrusive for my lik. . . .
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some of you people are way too much.
if you are gonna boycott every single company that does business with draft kings, well you might as well boycott MLB then, because they are investors of theirs, so yeah Last edited by wallewalls; 05-17-2018 at 11:53 AM. |
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For whatever reason, I am not seeing any banners or popups when I visit this site on any device. I am happy about that.
Maybe some clarity is in order- I think that most of the people who are objecting to these ads are objecting to the advertiser. No one is objecting to the selling of advertising space on the forum. They are objecting to the content. This is totally reasonable.
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Some peoples' lives must be far too easy if they find such small stuff to whine about.
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The ad looks totally reasonable from my vantage point sitting on a beach in Maui spending my winnings.
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some days the ad is visible when i arrive on the boards, other times it's not (like now). At least it's not as offensive as the first day, when it took up the whole screen. And while i personally don't like draft kings idea, it's not my place to decide from whom OOTP should get their revenue. if it bothers me, i don't need to use that particular product. it's no different than the ads i see on TV that i dislike or find distasteful.
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