Runner Disqualified After Claiming 2nd Place in Fort Lauderdale Half Marathon
Regardless of the cheating, this type of post doesn&#x27;t fully sit right with me. Given the permanence of record on the internet, this does bring up the issue of how we police bad behavior, and how we incorporate forgiveness into that.<p>That said, the poster was pretty fair, and generally refer to her as &quot;the runner&quot;. It definitely reads as an obsessive sleuthing, no doubt in part because there were follow-on discoveries made. As the saying goes, &quot;one is a fluke, two is a coincidence, three is a trend&quot;, and it seems there&#x27;s a trend here.<p>What&#x27;s interesting is someone in the comments mentioned this:<p>&gt; The majority of those &quot;30K&quot; instagram followers are fake accounts - many of the likes on her recent photos are spam bots. She 100 percent buys followers&#x2F;likes.<p>My guess is a lot of people probably do this to bump up their social status a bit. It&#x27;s relatively innocent (if a bit narcissistic), though if its true in her case, it fits a clear pattern. Can&#x27;t verify though, given it seems she&#x27;s shut down her social media presence.<p>This is one of those cases where sympathy and revulsion are equally valid emotions. I wouldn&#x27;t want to be on the other end of the hive-mind, but it is a self-inflicted wound.