charter wrote:Why am I scum for posting when the game started and you aren't? How does posting when the thread opens benefit me more as scum than as town? How do you know scum weren't lurking at the start to try and coordinate a quickhammer? What would the town thing to do have been, lurk my pants off?
It's a little hard to answer these questions, some of them don't really apply. I was speculating that, because Icerint didn't send us a message to say the thread had opened, and because mods sometimes do post in the mafia quicktopic when the game begins, that early posters might be scum and late ones town. I'm aware that it's possible that to post early for other reasons, unrelated to role - I did it because I was waiting for this game to start, and I check the board often. And I know I'm the only one who could rule myself out like that; but I don't see that as a reason to ignore it as a case. I have dropped it though, because SV and Buttonmen gave reasons for their lateness, which are backed up by the post histories.
I wasn't saying you would have done it to benefit you, I was suggesting that you were told that the thread had opened and other two didn't.
It is possible that the scum could be the two late players instead - the quickhammer point seems stretching it, surely they can quickhammer whether they're lurkers or not; but there are other reasons scum might post late.
Right now I think that, in this game, the post times don't give good evidence either way.
I don't think it's townie to lurk, I believe lurking always benefits scum more than town.
charter wrote:Also, why did you just unvote me? Who are you suspicious of now?
Because I went through the post times and couldn't find anything to support. Although my gut says you might still be scum, I can't identify anything logically to support that.
Currently I'm most suspicious of SV, for telling people to calm down just now. I think I've seen scum act that way before.
charter wrote:Fenchurch, what's your opinion of McGriddle?
I'm not really convinced by the case on him. I don't know that I believe it is a newbscum move to threaten to vig. Do you have any examples to back that up?
Shattered Viewpoint wrote:@Fenchurch: I'm sure that's completely within the rules, and maybe even the spirit, of the game. But, for some reason, I can't articulate precisely why I feel so violated.
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(And for those just looking for a reason to ....whatever, I feel justified in threatening to google TBM due to Fenchurch's opening up that whole can of worms.)
I'm confused, what's within the rules? What can of worms did I open up?