I think worrying about them watching and changing something is a fear based approach to life.
Its hard to win the lottery if you are fearful. I understand there is fear of theft and fear of lost business, fear of tricksters ,scamsters, and some of you are just afraid of the system. (Not the lottery system, but the system of control which permeates our lives.)
If your system stopped working its probably because the game is in a total state of flux.
There is no system that works forever.
Every system has to adapt to any changes. Those by the administrator, or any imagined. Patterns evolve, live and die.
A system goes cold because the 123 will not keep hitting forever.
A random games want to give the 456 a chance.
When that goes cold then perhaps you try 789.
If they dont want you to win then they will change the matrix.
Is it the fault of players on LP that this has happened in Mega Millions?
Is it the fault of players on LP that PB is two dollars?
I dont think so.
Any systematic belief that it is, is just plain paranoid in my opinion.
I tried to collaborate with many players on LP, but most just wont have it. They are all afraid.
Some for good reason, but they might have to change the name from lottery post to Lottery Paranoia.
Or maybe Lottery Laziness.
Other people dont want to post their system because people like the stooges or pugnacious money, come along and harrass and belittle.
Not quite the evironment for lottery system evolution.
Others dont want to share system because they dont want to share the jackpot. Quite understandable. But if your system is so good that you are worrying about others stealing it and winning with it, then its not really doing very good job of winning in the first place because you would be enjoying life and not playing this game.
Just my two cents. (Well by now I think it might be about 6 cents)
I think RL is right. Any lottery pool, system sharing, system creation should be done in private and by invitation only.
People like to make excuses.
Oh my system stopped working because i shared it. Or my system stopped working because they changed the machine.
BALONEY!!!!
Caution is wise, but to reject others who want to help or want to learn or want to collaborate is just plain selfish. If I ask you what you are looking for in a PM and you say, oh my wave is doing this, or oh I am checking my parameters, without specifing what those paramaters are or how they work then you are not really wanting to help others. You are more wanting others to NEED you.
ok now thats about 8 cents.