In post 451, Extrapolated Eagle wrote:you're wrong and I think you know it on all these points. So you can disagree with me and I can go more in depth about how and why you're wrong and we can waste more time on the subject matter or you can stop making up vs arguments and start playing the game. A good way to find scum is to look at their posts. How often they post. What is their motivation behind posting? Scum know what they're doing. And goal number one is to NOT stand out. They want to blend in. A few outliers I have seen have included scum that intentionally ttunneled one person all game long and that was their excuse for not participating in discussion, this is relatively popular because it's easy to tell. There's the scum that have to be on the front lines that try to stand out but they have to do so too aggressively and end up in weird stances making up bs cases. This is some of the strangest scum to catch. There's the scum that literally just lurks all game. But most often scum are in the middle. Dittoing what some people say. Making a comment on this , a comment on that. Trying to look sane and relatable. Trying not to react if possible.
Most often the people on the front lines fighting for reads are town. They make "scummy" mistakes to get reads out of people. They're too paranoid sometimes and overly confident at others.
So you want to find scum motivation? Look at the lurkers. Look at their posts. Hard. Look at the people who you didn't have an immediate read on and are somewhere in the null. Look at the people who everyone says "eh, probably town, they contribute a bit" and then just kind of ignore.
Go to those people's posts. Read them. What are those posts trying to accomplish? Scum often have a purpose in mind. Somewhere they're headed. Does he post make a point you haven't noticed before that sets you in a new direction when reading someone? They're maybe town. But be careful of manipulation here. Does the post seem to just joke around? How often does the person seem to just kind of repeat what someone else said or follow someone else? How often are their comments helpful, or move the thread forward? Those are probably scum. Are they not really engaging people? Maybe scum unless they've stated their purpose in doing so.
THESE are the things you should look for when looking for scum. AI is my strongest town read at the moment.
1. They take strong stances that are scary or will get them maybe killed day 2 as scum, LIKE reading you as strong town.
2. They are not afraid to stand out at all and called multiple people scum in a row in an attempt to put pieces together.
3. They are reaction testing and trying to figure out who is scum, trying to separate the scum from the town.
4. They have NOT yet shared their reasons and I imagine in part because they're trying out the team and watching people for reactions- strong reactions for or against, and weak ones. The weak reactions are often the ones from scum.
5. They're town reading you. I would be too if I didn't think you'd slipped at the beginning of the day, until this most recent post of yours.
Anyways, I wrote much more than I intend to but poor play puts me off and I like to try to correct it when I can. (Yes. I'm aware my play isn't the best either, but... I guess I like explaining things?)
I may not have explained well enough, but if you still think you're right about ai being scum you can restate your reasons (make sure you're certain of them) and I'll show you why you're wrong.)
Aside from that entire post being annoying as fuck, your scumread on me makes no sense." -Elyse (scum)