Cheating in Online Poker

[Foucault]

Adanthar,

I find it hard to believe you are actually this dense, but I'm not sure why you would feign it, either. Here's how the conversation went:

"This is a witch hunt. You're wasting everyone's time and distracting attention from real cheating. Clayton is a scapegoat."

"People with multiple accounts need to be investigated. Regardless of Clayton's specific situation, it is the only way to catch multi-accounters, and easy access to multiple accounts makes it too easy to multi-account."

"But some people NEED to have more than one account. What about anyonymity? What about rakeback?"

"Those aren't legit reasons for having more than one account."

It's really absurd that the people accusing UCLA, myself, and others of diverting attention from the problem are the same ones screaming to lock the thread, creating strawmen arguments, and shouting "Witch hunt!" rather than making reasoned arguments. Obviously I don't really care if people open rakeback accounts per se, but I don't think they have some God-given right to them such that they (or others on their behalf) can get up in arms when someone wants to be sure they aren't doing anything worse.

Going after the small stuff is the way to find the big stuff. In most cases it's going to be just the small stuff and nothing else, and presumably that's the case with Clayton, but it needs to be investigated anyway. Of course all multi-accounting will never be eliminated, but we can certainly make it harder than it is now, raise the level of social stigma against it, and at least raise the risk being run by those who choose to engage in the practice anyway.