an overreaction to my reply
Correcting your misconception of what defines "gambling" is not an overreaction, it's stating facts to a person who is spreading falsehoods in an effort to explain away the fact that your community used a misconception to mute a post ... yet openly allows likely unregistered securities to post and profit in that same community.
Me exposing this dichotomy to stop this illogical thinking and completely untrue (and repeated statements) over the past 5 years is a neccessity so that no further harm can come to OUR community by people who don't grasp the very definition of the word they are using in public.
I'm fully aware that your site doesn't let people gamble their money
Then your next statement makes absolutely no sense at all to me.
poker in general is related to gambling
No.
In general most people can look up the definition of "gambling" for themselves and figure out that freeroll "poker in general is related to gambling" is an ill-informed statement that is biased by the speakers own lack of knowledge on what the word they are using means as it pertains to the subject they are commenting on (freeroll poker, where no wagers exist).
This is your opinion and unfortunately a popular misconception.
Poker != gambling.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gambling
Poker is a game of skill and Freeroll poker involves NO wagers whatsoever on the players part (which btw, is the definition of gambling).
People can actually "gamble" on anything, like whether or not your above statement is true or false. If any 2 people wager or a third party wagers or helps with the wager, then that is gambling.
When no people involved wager anything of value, that is not gambling, by not only the very definition of gambling, but by law.
A game is a game. ANY game can be played without gambling, even those found in casinos. That doesn't mean those games are "gambling" games, they're just games and gambling is gambling. The two are not the same.
Also while poker is a game it's not gaming in the sense that we're looking for in this community.
Then why was I invited to post in this gaming community? I was fine not posting in your community, but then I was invited to post in your community. This seems more like a CYA statement than anything based in reality, to me personally.
I see that likely unregistered security tokens are fine to illegally promote in your community, but legal poker gaming is not, and that's fine and it's your decision and I will abide by your very misguided (IMHO) decision.
Your community continues to allow others to illegally promote likely unregistered securities but have an issue with the longest running legal game on STEEM/HIVE distributing HIVE to people with no risks at all. To each their own.
Never once did I tell you to leave the community
I never said you did.
I said I wouldn't post in your community any longer since it allows people to illegally promote likely unregistered securities (as admitted by the developer), yet mutes legal gaming that distributes HIVE to others with no risks or investment at all.
I would never want to be part of such a misguided community who allows likely illegal activity (not only be definition but by the letter of the law) and dissuades legal gaming that promotes the Hive blockchain and HIVE distribution to others.
Whatever. I said I would look into it by which I meant talking to the other mods and get their reasoning but before you let me you went on a 800 word rant with a followup 600 comment. Enjoy your day and good luck with your site.
"Whatever."
You sound like my 15-year old daughter when she overreacts to something, gets called out for overreacting and can't BEAR to take responsibility for her mistake, much less rectify it.
Also, luck has nothing to do with either poker or the success of Lucksacks... we've weathered worse than you and your adorable mute button before. However, your passive aggressive, fake-ass 'good luck' brings me right back to my 15 year old daughter being a big baby, so at least you're consistent.
Well I wanted to get clarity in the case by talking to the mod who mutes the post first but because I called poker related to gambling, which it is, and now we're here. It's not like I'm trying to get you shut down or something or get you to leave Hive.
Whatever.
wrong account, lol, sorry
Poker fights a bad rep because of people like you who shriek, 'eeek! gambling bad!! poker bad!!' even when they've been informed that they are not the same thing.
But yeah, whatever.
It's very telling that you choose to address "gambling" regarding a site where you admit there is no gambling ... yet don't at all address the fact that your community allows tokens that fail the Howey Test (and admitted by the lead dev) be promoted repeatedly and ... that's just fine apparently.
Not gambling = muted.
Illegal activity = that's fine.
You know Hive is decentralized so whether something is illegal in the US doesn't really matter?
I can turn this around and say that in my country poker is considered to be gambling so that just invalidates your argument.