Mass. lottery addresses Asian gambling addicts

Comment #10

wizeguy — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 13:13:11 GMT

Doh! I get it now. Hover the mouse over the number of stars you want to rate at... then click! And I take back my four star rating

Comment #9

wizeguy — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 13:02:39 GMT

I've seen the stars but I guess I just tune them out as I do the ads. Not knowing how they worked and not seeing anything else related to them that could be clicked on I clicked on them and thought I might get a popup box or something... no such animal but the 3 stars went to four and it took it as my rating. What if I wanted something other than 4? There didn't seem to be any way to control it that I could tell. It didn't give me a chance to click again or take my click back.

Comment #8

Todd — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:11:12 GMT

Don't worry, I'm sure when the rating start getting more visibility on the site, like when they are on the topic listings, I'm sure more people will notice them and rate. I appreciate that you take the extra time to do so.

Comment #7

justxploring — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 07:46:25 GMT

BTW, am I only member rating topics? I've been on several tonight with no rating. I just rated this average (3 stars) I might rate a topic 4 or 5 stars too, but I just rated another topic poor (1 star) and unless others participate, I'll begin to feel like the naysayer around here when I don't like someone's thread and we've been asked to rate them honestly

Comment #6

justxploring — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 07:22:32 GMT

Todd, eventually we'll all have to fly naked. If they start watching passengers in the bathrooms, it will change the whole meaning of puddle jumper for me.

Comment #5

Raven62 — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 05:05:51 GMT

Like what: Passengers and Flight Crew

Comment #4

Todd — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 03:11:44 GMT

The only time I think people should be classified into groups is when they are boarding a plane.

Comment #3

justxploring — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 23:16:05 GMT

Maybe that's why so many people over 70 win in Florida! I think it's partly because they're retired and are spending the money on vacations they've planned for many years. I was told that one reason, besides the population, so many people win in Miami-Dade county is that the Hispanic population spends much more on lottery tickets. So who knows?

I don't like grouping people into a statistic like this, however.

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Comment #2

bellyache — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 21:58:00 GMT

When I've gone to casinos the biggest demographic I noticed were Senior Citizens also.

Comment #1

DoubleDown — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 20:18:51 GMT

I have noticed that Asians make up a rather large contingent of gamblers at every casino I have been in, but so do a couple of other demographic groups :

Senior Citizens

Younger generation ( college-age types )

I see plenty of them too.....

DD

Mass. lottery addresses Asian gambling addicts

Lottery Post — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 20:06:00 GMT

The Massachusetts Council on Compulsive Gambling is taking aim at a new group Asian gamblers.

The council is dedicating $100,000 from the state Lottery to the new effort, the largest amount they've ever used to address a single demographic group.

Executive director Kathleen Scanlon says compulsive gambling is a problem in the Asian community.

Casinos have been aggressively marketing to Asians in recent years.

Former counselor Ming Chang has worked with Asian gambling addicts and sa... [ More ]