I was once told that someone who doesn't actually answer someone's suspicions (even if they are only page 2 suspicions), calls himself Town, and then OMGUS-votes based on rather wide meta-style generalizations is pretty scummy himself.MiteyMouse wrote:I was once told that in the game of mafia, the second vote is really not what one should be looking at...the third however is bandwagonning and the third voter for Town is usually Scum. Because of this:
VOTE MacavityLock
I will admit that it did make me look a little harder at you seeing as that vote was on me!
Touche my friend! I wasn't trying to follow someone else's coattails here...I was looking for reasoning for votes early on in the game. I always want reasoning on votes that are past the random vote stage...that's just the way that I play. SC and I were just here around the same time and thinking along the same lines.MacavityLock wrote:I was once told that someone who doesn't actually answer someone's suspicions (even if they are only page 2 suspicions), calls himself Town, and then OMGUS-votes based on rather wide meta-style generalizations is pretty scummy himself.MiteyMouse wrote:I was once told that in the game of mafia, the second vote is really not what one should be looking at...the third however is bandwagonning and the third voter for Town is usually Scum. Because of this:
VOTE MacavityLock
I will admit that it did make me look a little harder at you seeing as that vote was on me!
Actually, I wasn't told that. I figured it out for myself.
Well, here's what I don't get:MiteyMouse wrote:Touche my friend! I wasn't trying to follow someone else's coattails here...I was looking for reasoning for votes early on in the game. I always want reasoning on votes that are past the random vote stage...that's just the way that I play. SC and I were just here around the same time and thinking along the same lines.
I get the case on Ceph. I don't agree with it, but I get it. I don't understand at all any case on Gorillaz. Why did you find him scummy? Did SC even make a case for him, or did he just call him scummy? Did I just abuse some pronouns?MiteyMouse wrote:I'm following you on it thus far on Cephir and EG.
I'm not really suspicious of EG now...but before we learned of the PR, he was a bit frustrating.MacavityLock wrote:Well, here's what I don't get:MiteyMouse wrote:Touche my friend! I wasn't trying to follow someone else's coattails here...I was looking for reasoning for votes early on in the game. I always want reasoning on votes that are past the random vote stage...that's just the way that I play. SC and I were just here around the same time and thinking along the same lines.I get the case on Ceph. I don't agree with it, but I get it. I don't understand at all any case on Gorillaz. Why did you find him scummy? Did SC even make a case for him, or did he just call him scummy? Did I just abuse some pronouns?MiteyMouse wrote:I'm following you on it thus far on Cephir and EG.
Crap on a stick....let me go back and look....sorry for confusing you EG and Primate!MacavityLock wrote:Yeah, their names are similar, but EG and Primate are different people.MiteyMouse wrote:I'm not really suspicious of EG now...but before we learned of the PR, he was a bit frustrating.
Not sure about Stranger. Pretty similar style to other games I've played with him in, I think slightly closer to when he was town, but my memory is not perfect. I don't think I'm ready to vote right now; see how things play out. MiteyMouse wrote:I have no idea how I got 3 votes on me...thanks for the unvote!
As to your question...hmmmm, if all 4 players didn't say a "single" Scummy thing then I'd assume there were 4 Scum. In my very limited experience, the people that usually let little slips are Town as Town is less careful. Scum tend to be very careful with their words and the slips don't often happen. Which is why you will rarely see a Scum get lynched in Day 1...it is usually a Town lynch and usually for a little slip.
Not true. It doesn't work at all because everyone knows about it, and this has been the case for at least as long as I've been here.StrangerCoug wrote:Be careful, MiteyMouse—as well as that works, there are no universal rules to scumhunting.
Dangerous assumption.MiteyMouse wrote:In my very limited experience, the people that usually let little slips are Town as Town is less careful.
No. Ceph is right. This is a dangerous assumption. The scum would try to balance out their posts and keep some variety between their styles. Maybe scum are a little more careful about slip ups, but I wouldn't generalize on scummy posting habits.MiteyMouse wrote:I have no idea how I got 3 votes on me...thanks for the unvote!
As to your question...hmmmm, if all 4 players didn't say a "single" Scummy thing then I'd assume there were 4 Scum. In my very limited experience, the people that usually let little slips are Town as Town is less careful. Scum tend to be very careful with their words and the slips don't often happen. Which is why you will rarely see a Scum get lynched in Day 1...usually for a little slip.
Meh. It worked. I'm thinking we'd still be random voting.Corvuus wrote:1. Vote 'random' player
2. Say "I found scum!"
3. "i will give reason later, all aboard the quicklynch train"
4. "I didn't mean it... just getting reactions"
Doesn't work that great.
It got you on everyone's scum list (as you pointed out) and it only semi-started the game. There should be a better way to get response/reactions out of people without having to be anti-town-ish.
I don't associate post restrictions with mini normals, nor do I think the pictures in and of themselves warrant a vote. If Primate is allowed to speak in words, I'd rather he do so, but his actions are not per se scummy.Cephrir wrote:@Primate voters: even if Primate is faking a PR, I don't think it's scummy. Antitown, perhaps, but not scummy. And I'm far from positive that he's making it up anyway.