# Thread about "cheating" on a poker site has vanished from the Game Room **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [November 5, 2010, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-about-cheating-on-a-poker-site-has-vanished-from-the-game-room/559577 "2010-11-05T14:56:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wintertime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c68b51/32.png) [@wintertime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wintertime)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-about-cheating-on-a-poker-site-has-vanished-from-the-game-room/559577/1 "2010-11-05T14:56:34Z")
Maybe I am just blind or too stupid to use the search function properly but it seems to me that a thread in the Game Room that dealt with the peculiar claim that the poker site “Full Tilt” is cheating, is simply gone. Not closed, gone. 😕 Did I wake up this morning in a parallel universe where little Winstons are dutifully erasing every record that isn’t fully compatible with the present party line or is it just a hick-up? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-about-cheating-on-a-poker-site-has-vanished-from-the-game-room/559577/2 "2010-11-05T15:05:31Z")
The OP of that thread made the exact same post to at least three other forums, so as far as I’m concerned it’s spam. I don’t think the SDMB has a party line with regard to FullTilt or any poker website. Now pipe down or I’ll go get the rats. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-about-cheating-on-a-poker-site-has-vanished-from-the-game-room/559577/3 "2010-11-05T15:12:19Z")
Just to clarify, the thread wasn’t about how to cheat on FullTilt Poker. Based on our policies about cheats on videogames, for example, I don’t think that would be an issue. The OP of the thread was saying FullTilt was cheating by using an unfair dealing engine. ---
**Author:** ![wintertime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c68b51/32.png) [@wintertime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wintertime)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-about-cheating-on-a-poker-site-has-vanished-from-the-game-room/559577/4 "2010-11-05T15:12:35Z")
> [@](#): > > Marley23 smiled faintly. ‘You are no metaphysician, wintertime,’ he said. ‘Until this moment you had never considered what is meant by existence. I will put it more precisely. Does the past exist concretely, in space? Is there somewhere or other a place, a world of solid objects, where the past is still happening?’ > > ‘No.’ > > ‘Then where does the past exist, if at all?’ > > ‘In records. It is written down.’ > > ‘In records. And—?’ > > ‘In the mind. In human memories.’ > > ‘In memory. Very well, then. We, the Party, control all records, and we control all memories. Then we control the past, do we not?’ 😉 In other words, thanks for the explanation. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-about-cheating-on-a-poker-site-has-vanished-from-the-game-room/559577/5 "2010-11-05T16:59:52Z")
"The victory over himself was complete. He loved **Marley23**." Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-about-cheating-on-a-poker-site-has-vanished-from-the-game-room/559577/6 "2010-11-05T22:04:26Z")
Hey Big ( **Marley23** ) Brother, do you think you could “unperson” a few posters for me? I have a list… ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2010, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-about-cheating-on-a-poker-site-has-vanished-from-the-game-room/559577/7 "2010-11-06T07:34:37Z")
> [@Cheshire\_Human](#): > > Hey Big ( **Marley23** ) Brother, do you think you could “unperson” a few posters for me? I have a list… Is it a little one? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2010, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-about-cheating-on-a-poker-site-has-vanished-from-the-game-room/559577/8 "2010-11-06T09:39:05Z")
Nitpick: hiccup, not hick-up. ---
**Author:** ![wintertime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c68b51/32.png) [@wintertime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wintertime)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2010, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-about-cheating-on-a-poker-site-has-vanished-from-the-game-room/559577/9 "2010-11-06T10:01:34Z")
Yeah. And the irony in this instance is that I realized my blunder just a little bit too late to erase it, wished I could have avoided its perpetuity, wished I wouldn’t have wished it. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2010, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-about-cheating-on-a-poker-site-has-vanished-from-the-game-room/559577/10 "2010-11-06T13:11:45Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Nitpick: hiccup, not hick-up. Or, to be even more correct, hiccough. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2010, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-about-cheating-on-a-poker-site-has-vanished-from-the-game-room/559577/11 "2010-11-06T13:50:25Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Just to clarify, the thread wasn’t about how to cheat on FullTilt Poker. Based on our policies about cheats on videogames, for example, I don’t think that would be an issue. The OP of the thread was saying FullTilt was cheating by using an unfair dealing engine. Is this a play for money site? If so, how is it NOT an issue? Cheating at a video game only affects your own enjoyment of it. Cheating at poker, however, steals money from other people. Even if it’s play for fun, with no money involved, cheating would spoil the game for everyone else. ---
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2010, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-about-cheating-on-a-poker-site-has-vanished-from-the-game-room/559577/12 "2010-11-06T14:12:05Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Is it a little one? 🙂 It soon _ **will** _ be, heh, heh… ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2010, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-about-cheating-on-a-poker-site-has-vanished-from-the-game-room/559577/13 "2010-11-06T14:15:54Z")
> [@Cheshire\_Human](#): > > Hey Big ( **Marley23** ) Brother, do you think you could “unperson” a few posters for me? I have a list… Well, there is this arcane and forgotten art called the “ignore” list-it’s lying, unused, in the corner over there, underneath the used kitty litter and last week’s campaign signs. ---
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2010, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-about-cheating-on-a-poker-site-has-vanished-from-the-game-room/559577/14 "2010-11-06T14:19:43Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > Well, there is this arcane and forgotten art called the “ignore” list-it’s lying, unused, in the corner over there, underneath the used kitty litter and last week’s campaign signs. But that won’t make them cease to exist from everyone’s memory, or erase mentions of them from other posts. What do you think an “unperson” _ **is** _? :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2010, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-about-cheating-on-a-poker-site-has-vanished-from-the-game-room/559577/15 "2010-11-06T14:27:48Z")
The undead? ---
**Author:** ![dhkendall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9adbd/32.png) [@dhkendall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dhkendall)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2010, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-about-cheating-on-a-poker-site-has-vanished-from-the-game-room/559577/16 "2010-11-06T15:39:36Z")
> [@wintertime](#): > > Yeah. And the irony in this instance is that I realized my blunder just a little bit too late to erase it, wished I could have avoided its perpetuity, wished I wouldn’t have wished it. If only you knew someone in the Ministry of Truth …