Bobby623,
Hmm.... I re-read your post and I'm sorry but I can't see anything that would indicate that you're joking. It looks like a serious complaint.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with complaining. This site is completely independent from the state lotteries, and I complain about them myself sometimes.
In your complaint you said that both Mega Millions and TX Lotto were not doing well and you indicated that you had heard "word" of conversations by the Mega Millions managers.
I had not heard any such things, so I asked you for more info. Is that not a reasonable request?
From your latest post, I am guessing that the "word" you got is actually something you read on Dawn Nettles' web site.
For all the faults that the Texas Lottery has, I do not buy-in to the conspiracy theories that Dawn Nettles concocts about them. Just because she may be correct about a few complaints does not justify the 90% of her complaints that are exaggerated or just plain wrong.
In fact, it's not just the Texas Lottery that is the target of her conspiracy theories.
For example, did you know that she actually accused me of being an ex-lottery employee, or somehow being connected to a state lottery, and that Lottery Post was setup in order to spread good word about the lotteries?
Did you know that she based this conclusion on the fact that I do not list my personal telephone number and address on my web site? If you don't believe me, I'm sure I saved the e-mail someplace, and I'd be happy to post it.
Another time she wrote to me saying how bad the Mega Millions choice was for Texas (which is probably how you formed your anti-Mega Millions opinion), and when I wrote back saying that I disagreed with her -- a very pleasant note I might add -- she started flaming my inbox with all kinds of nasty e-mails.
At that point I realized why the Texas Lottery dislikes her so much. ANYONE would dislike somebody like that. She does her research, and if you don't agree with her, she gets very nasty and starts throwing conspiracy-theory accusations about you. What she did to me (more than once!) was exactly the kind of tactic that she uses on the Texas Lottery, and I did not realize that until she actually did it to me. What an eye-opener that was!
Sorry to burst your bubble (or anyone else's who is a big fan of Dawn Nettles), but if you're going to her web site to discover the real truth about the Texas Lottery, then for much of it you are barking up the wrong tree.
I believe there is a fairly large group of people (my estimation is somewhere in the hundreds) that follow her comments very closely and believe everything she says. That's just fine, and the fact that anyone can say basically whatever they want is one of the great things about the Internet.
But the fact that a group of people believes her does not make it true.
Mega Millions was absolutely the best choice for Texas -- Powerball was a bad fit -- and Mega Millions is in fact doing very well in the state of Texas, as well as the other Mega Millions states. No thanks to Dawn Nettles.
Now that Texas wisely changed their Lotto game back to a Pick 6 format, their game lineup is awesome.