Originally Posted by
Dan Druff
I raised issue with this on Real Grinders, regarding the deleted messages.
The mods defended their actions in that they received a lot of false-positive scam posts when people were just impatient because small transfers took a few hours to go through.
I stated that actual false accusations of scams in poker are rare, and when they occur, it's still better to let them play out and let the accuser be proven wrong.
I don't think Terry King deleted the messages maliciously or in attempt to cover anything up, but I do disagree with their general policy to suppress these types of posts until it's "proven".
That's not the policy on here, 2+2, or any other poker forum I know of.
Regarding this specific case, Ray Davis made an odd statement that the guy "got in over his head", and that it wasn't a scam.
Huh?
I assume Ray meant that the guy is a problem gambler and traded money he didn't have in order to fund his gambling problem, but that's not an excuse. Even high-profile scammers such as Erick Lindgren sometimes had all the intentions to pay, but stealing with the intent to pay back is still stealing (and often the money never gets paid!)