voice of reason wrote:
He cheated. You brought this to his attention, you brought it to the race's attention, and then you brought it from your blog to LRC.
What is your ultimate goal? Are you just looking to publicly shame the guy?
It is, and that's not a bad thing.
No one cheats to get into Boston and then hides their medal in their desk drawer. They post pics on Twitter and Instagram, they write blogs and Facebook posts about all the hard work they did to get there. They go to their work and running friends and offer advice and counsel on running based on the false assumption that they are someone that are not.
They do it for the attention. They want to be minor celebrities. They are getting what they want, just not in the way they want.
Public shaming is the only the way to compel them to stop doing what they are doing, and discourage other to do the same. If Doublr quietly contacts NJ or Boston and let's them know and they DQ him. There are no consequences, no one Marlon is conning is going to go occasionally re-check marathon results to see if he's still listed. Marlon continues what he's doing and the whole world is none the wiser.
Public Shaming can go overboard (especially now in the digital age), but not in this case. The shaming will only get as bad as Marlon let's it. If Marlon wants it to stop, all he has to do is admit what he did, and ask the marathons to DQ him for it, it would be the end of the story.
Or he can let it fester till the thread gets so long that only a few people bother to check it. I stopped following the Rossi Thread around page 200 (and that was 80 pages too long). I have no idea what those lunatics are still talking about.