Originally Posted by
The Boz
So I’m asking the thoughts of others if his real name should be exposed if one knows exactly who he is? Not only his name and address, but also the firm he works for, who his father is, his fathers net north based on public records, his wife’s name and much more?
It was done to Rob “Singer”, so should it be done to MDawg? I was exposed multiple times and I’m a small fish compared to “MDawg”. And at this point I really don’t care if anyone knows my history, my life and where I live. And if anyone comes after me they are obviously a crazy who deserved what they get. Is MDawg in the same situation?
IF someone has found out exactly who he is, are they right or wrong exposing him after all the warning signs he was given about exposing his tales?
My view:
No Mdawg should not be exposed and forced to reveal his real name. These forums
are anonymous forums. Without that you will have absolutely zero participation by real advantage players. Many/most already don't won't participate (at least on open forums), but force them to use real name and none would.
There is a difference with Rob Singer. He chose to have people know who he was. So he himself opened the door to people looking into his personal finances to see that they not only didn't match, but absolutely conflicted with his claims. He chose to reveal who he was 20 years ago, long before he stole the double up bug claim and tied it to a ridiculous claim of 1.5 million dollar Newell, so he probably didn't anticipate how he was exposing himself, but never-the-less
he exposed himself.
As far as proving claims, again this is an anonymous message board. It is the only way it works. So no one is required to prove claims. I myself have claims of very modest success over my 11 years in Vegas, that some don't believe. That is fine. It is up to everyone to figure out for themselves who is credible, knows what they are talking about and claims fall within the realm of possibility based on math.
And here in lies the problem. When claims are so extreme as to defy math and I'll say reasonable probably (not possibility as I would like to say), and the claims just keep going everyday for years, and years, growing in number (money won, never a losing session), there comes a time when the person needs to prove their claims, to satisfy the forum administrators that provide the platform for such claims.
That is where we are here. Both Wizard and Dan Druff have basically said,
"time to put up or shut up". And they have that right. I would argue they have that responsibility when claims get to this level. I mean how often have you seen either forum owner/administrator make that call. I have never seen it. So it is not calling out every claim. There are plenty of claims that don't seem likely, that no one is asked to prove. But when it gets to this extreme, defying the math, for this kind of money and this length of time...YES. Otherwise it just makes a mockery of the forum and the math, which
I am now certain is the intent with this Mdawg person.
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