/me sighs.
Eh, this was probably the wrong way to go about proving my point, but I strongly believe the meta is wrong on this. It's not like voting without explanations is even anything new, it's just everyone has a gut reaction to it that says it must be unhelpful because it means that they, personally, do not have all the information.
However, it's burying everything else I want to and need to say in order to function in this game, so I'll stop. I'm voting Slicey because of his tentative posting.
Hmm.... not really much to comment on. EmpKing looks pretty suspicious right now, I don't like how he was trying to get everyone to vote.
Hmm... BlakAdder looks suspicious to me, mainly cause I feel like he's attacking Sir T for the way he posts, which I don't like.
he's said he's suspicious of EmpKing and Blakadder, but has yet to place a single vote. He explains this by saying: "I don't think one somewhat scummy post automatically makes them scum. And I don't like unvoting and voting like crazy, unless it's the random voting phase", which is fair enough, but that's only part of what I find scummy. So far, he has said "Hmm..." twice, ">_>" (and variants) 4 times. He feels nervous. When he's asking Wall-E why he's voting for him, he adds "Just curious." at the end, as if he's afraid asking will get him into trouble. This might be excusable if he were a newbie, but he's posting meta opinions like:
I don't like unvoting and voting like crazy, unless it's the random voting phase
and
I'd say pressure people that seem scummy. If you think lurking is a scumtactic, well that's what you think. Evetually, they will have to post though, and we'll see if those posts seem scummy
which indicate that he has a certain amount of mafia experience. Compare with my posting in
Basic twelve player mafia, where I was scum. By the end of that game, I was horrifically nervous, and it was showing through in my posts, and the "defeatist" attitude was the reason most of the town had deduced I was scum.