In post 490, LimMePls wrote:Tammy wrote:Why are you only concerned with questioning one person?
What's the problem if he is? Your question implies that Foxace36 focusing his questions at one player is somehow bad.
Trying to determine what if anything that says about his alignment or his playstyle. Seems a bit odd seeing as how we have a more than one scum team out there to just focus on one person, especially when he's as active as he is and the one player he wants to question was inactive at the time.
Tammy wrote:Sorry. This is my real question to LMP
You highlighted that you are voting Norman for using think and might in regards to someone maybe being a scumbag. Do you find that scum are more likely to use words which make one seem unsure or town?
How often do you tend to find scum by word choice?
What do you think of RT's response to Feysal saying that scum would be insane not to claim the opposite alignment:
"This 100%. A RC kind of defeats the purpose of itself in some aspects. But we also don't know if there's an even number of LE & CE and CG & LG. Or if the total LE + CG = LG + CE. So I suppose some information could certainly be ascertained."
I catch scum on word choice all the time. By far one of my top scum tells is finding scum that appear to be crafting their thoughts to conform/appease the town. Also fence-sitting/wishy-washy language is a big red flag for me. For a great example of these tells, see me catch CoachTravis scum on day 1 in Ghostbusters Mafia, in large part due to the way he used language in that game (see my ISO 1 where I show his backtracking from the use of the word "constant" was scummy and his fence-sitting/wishy-washy language toward Scott Brosius). I'm sure there are plenty of other examples of this in my wiki.
As for the quote, I'm not sure I follow the argument of whether or not LE + CG = LG + CE, since the game seemed intentionally designed to have PRECISELY that balance. I'm not sure what "some" information he suggests could be ascertained, but I don't think it outweighs the serious dangers that Feysal correctly identified.
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I realize RT is not in the game so it doesn't technically matter anymore, though I do think that predecssors must be taken into account when evaluating the new one. I thought that quote I asked you about was strange and felt like an attempt to contribute to the conversation and say something without making an opinion to avoid getting any more votes.
I agree that word choice is important and can help catch scum, but you have to be careful too, because town are just as likely to use words like "think" or "might" as scum. In fact, town has more of a tendency to do so because of coming from the position of not actually knowing anything.
I'm sure your meta is great, but I'm not going to read it. I have very limited experience with people on this site (3 people in this game were in a game I was briefly in before the crash), and I do my best to not allow meta into a current game. I might read it later though, I do love seeing people caught by word choice. In the last game I played in on my regular site, I was sure I caught scum for word choice. Everyone thought I was crazy...they did end up being scum in the end.
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