WWRD wrote:
Brojas, you have seriously let us down if you don't publish your article. Maybe you're getting everything cleared through attorneys, we don't know. But you've stated you have an article, and promised it. Your credibility is at stake. At the very least you need to indicate why you decided not to publish it.
People new to this thread. Everything has been vetted herein, the photos have been analyzed, past history has been considered, the ease with which it would have been to cheat at LVM, the apparent narcissism of the cheater, his reaction to the accusations, as well as statistical probability. Those of you supporting him are either trolls, friends, or someone who helped him.
One could reasonably argue that they let us down whether or not they publish an article as a result of their lack of communication (in spite of pleas from this board to at least keep us apprised) after their initial outrage regarding the "alleged" cheating in the LVM, their arbitrary and capricious deletion of posts regarding Mr. Rossi and other alleged cheaters, their selective censoring of speech (in spite of saying a unique feature of the Forums is "...that encourages the free flow of information...", and their capitulation to the demands of Mr. Rossi and his attorney for no good reason (just one example of many is the quote from a famous movie...if anything, I could understand the studio's lawyers perhaps crying copyright issues (yes, its a stretch)).
All this talk about lawyers, defamation, etc. is ridiculous. I can however understand that they may want to have any article vetted before releasing it, although based on the statement to phillymag.com by rojos, he had one ready to be released but didn't want it to be lost over last weekend, so presumably it would have been vetted by now. However (mainly for purposes for comments here and not in a proper article for wide distribution), courts generally allow a lot of latitude for free speech on boards, especially when commenting or interpreting facts or someone's own words from his blogs, tweets, and facebook pages. For those of you who have decided to turn to personal attacks and such, good luck, although it still would be a hard case to prove damages for a number of reasons.