Bingowings said:
You do realise how weird this all sounds (much weirder than anything Shawn is speculating Dave has been up to)?
Like Dave I think you need help and you really need to get away from the internet because this whole yarn is really a knotted spiral of a soap plot and if you are a malleable as you seem to be saying you are you really need a much more simple life.
Now you are just being a dick. Not that you haven't always been a dick...
But seriously, what is up with the personal attacks on Warb? Your judging him as you are is quite uncalled for, IMHO. There are plenty of people that have been suspicious of Dayv's claims from the start, and mostly those who have spent the most time interacting with him. That is a bit of a red flag to start. Just none of them voiced it here publicly until Shawn came forward (someone who has been in contact with Dave and people Dave knows in real life). There are so many reasons to be suspicious about this thing it is absurd.
In your typical and signature Holier Than Thou way you seem to be fighting for people to shut up, stop looking at the evidence, and accept the fact that Dayv needs us to part ways with our money for his wellbeing. We've heard your spiel. Everyone has heard it. Everyone will make their own decision on this matter based on the evidence. I agree with everyone who says the discussion has been exhausted, it has, there is nothing more to say. I agree Warbler is accomplishing nothing by continuing to demand evidence (that is obviously not forthcoming) from Dayv, but why resort to ripping him apart for it? He was a lot closer to this thing than you. You kind of missed the point of what he has been saying, that he has interacted with Dayv for years through various sites and considered him a real friend despite things that had happened between them in the past. He was still eager to jump to action to help a friend, and felt burnt when he realized he had been taken for a ride. He has a right to feel that way.
All this said, while I am in here I might as well say I am still very fond of Dayv, and am not going to hold anything against him. I suspected he didn't have cancer before Shawn's post, and am still quite sure he doesn't. If he does have cancer, I wish him the best and would offer him one of the best pieces of advice I have ever received myself: "If you don't look out for yourself, no one will."
There are quite a few people here willing to help, no way you can blame them for being suspicious after what they have been told by Shawn, if you really are sick then all blame for these doubts fall on Shawn's shoulders, not on them. You're the only one who can clear this thing up definitively, and doing so would be very beneficial to you. I am on a pretty tight budget these days, but I'd scrounge together something to send you if you did.