Question of the Day - 19 November 2021

Does LVA read every comment after a QOD?

Yes, we do. Deke gets an email with every comment that's made on the QoD pages and he clicks open and reads every one. Tanya, our IT manager, gets duplicate emails, which provide a good redundancy in case Deke misses something. Anthony doesn't get the emails; he's simply too busy with other things and trusts Deke and Tanya to handle what needs attending to. Though it doesn't happen very often, when Anthony is needed to step in for one reason or another, the email with the comment in question is forwarded to him.  

Have you ever considered doing separate Top 10 Value lists for the Strip, downtown, etc. instead of just the combined list?

Frankly, no. In the first place, the Top Ten has been LVA's signature feature since Volume 1 issue 1 lo these 38 years and our feeling is, if it ain't broke, why fix it? 

Secondly, too many Top Tens would dilute the clout of an appearance on the one and only list.

Also, in days gone by, though there were more than 10 top deals in Las Vegas and we often assigned the number 11 to a great value for which the Top Ten didn't have room or it didn't quite measure up to our standards for one reason or another, as time has passed, there are fewer and fewer deals that meet our criteria to be included on the list; that's especially true since the beginning of the pandemic. So these days, it's hard enough to come up with 10 top qualifying values in Las Vegas as a whole; having to do so for the Strip (rots a ruck), downtown, and locals casinos and hangouts would be too tall an order.

Why do I have to click on the reCAPTCHA box when I log into LVA.com? What purpose does that serve? I’ve noticed it on other websites, some of which also make me click on which of a dozen pictures contain a certain item, but I’ve never understood its purpose.

reCAPTCHA helps protect websites from spam and abuse. It's a simple test to tell humans and bots apart. It 's easy for humans to solve, but hard for bots and other malicious software to figure out.

And we can tell you that we get a lot of spam, especially on the forums. In fact, we have to delete up to a dozen spam posts a day and double or triple that after weekends.

It's a simple enough procedure to ask readers and users of websites to participate in, while it saves us and all over other big websites a lot of time and frustration. 

In Vegas News, you mentioned that Caesars was lining up to sell a center Strip property. Your pick was Bally’s. I thought you told us before that Paris and Bally’s share a gaming license. How would that play out? 

We have a dedicated QoD on the potential Bally's sale coming up in a couple of weeks. Here, we'll just address the gambling-license issue by saying that we assume it would play out the way it had to if CZR determined it wanted to sell Bally's.

When Paris opened in 1999, the megaresort was approved to operate under Bally's existing gambling license. At the time, the chairman of the Gaming Control Board stated that joint licensing is allowed under Nevada law and isn't unusual, particularly when the two casinos operate under the same corporate umbrella, are physically connected, and share the same personnel and reservations systems, all of which described the relationship between Bally's and Paris. 

Thus, if it isn't unusual for two casinos to share a license, separating them probably isn't unusual either. Presumably, the Gaming Control Board would put Caesars through some paces to separate the licenses in order to effect a sale and the Gaming Commission would rubberstamp the process.