Ugh, walls. So much for going to sleep at a reasonable hour. [pre-posting addendum: /irony tag goes here]
podium, 101 wrote:What's the point of explaining that tactic? It's probably the most basic strategy there is, and i'm sure we are all aware of it. I feel like perhaps you wanted to just contribute something that sounded impressive/intriguing by stating something inherently obvious.
I am overly verbose and have a habit of stating things that do not necessarily need to be stated because I strive for as much clarity as possible. I do not intend to change that anytime soon as it is a core aspect of my personality. I can reference completed scum/town games for verification if this continues to be an issue.
didn't see any holes or flawed reasoning.... thought it sounded town
See, there's a major problem here. Can you guess what it is, or do I need to spell it out? (Hint: Scum can form arguments without holes or flawed reasoning too, y'know. Just because you're scum doesn't mean your arguments will suddenly cease holding up to a basic logic check. Unless you suck at mafia, in which case you have bigger problems than your alignment.)
I still hold that it is suspicious to conclude that someone "looks town" with the severely limited content I had provided at that time. I see a far more natural town reaction being a "neutral" on either hiphop or me at the time you posted, and MT's "playing safe", which insinuates at least a mild suspicion, without actually elaborating on that suspicion, fishy.
MT, 104 wrote:I didn't all of a sudden jump on TLJ. I was finding him suspicious for a while and after rereading a bit I found him to be the most suspicious with his vagueness and his weak voting. My post fully explains all the reasoning that led me to vote for TLJ. I thought his vagueness and him "hiding" behind his character is a way for him to hide his scumminess.
Since TLJ has started posting more often and actually telling us what's on his mind I have since changed my opinion and choose to UNVOTE. You're jumping on me after I gave a detailed reason why I was voting for TLJ. Even thought I unvoted for TLJ I still am wary of him but he is redeeming himself in my opinion.
Okay, that's great and all, but we don't have any proof that you actually found him suspicious for a while. and therefore, yes, it is "all of a sudden" because we cannot read your mind and therefore cannot verify that you didn't just jump on TLJ's bandwagon because it seemed like the cool thing to do at the time. That's not so much what I take issue with so much as the fact that I think your reasoning is shoddy, though. The hiphop argument is very weak and the "playing Jesus to lull us into a false sense of security" is BS. (Wicked echoes my line of thought on that in 105). Also, if you really found him suspicious, your vote would likely remain on him when pressured barring a better scum candidate emerging. The fact that you unvoted without voting anyone else when you did along with the perpetuation of your shoddy bandwagon-jumping is something I find
very
suspicious and is enough for me to
unvote; Vote: Master Tang
This in no way clears podium, mind. In fact, I feel fairly confident at this point in time that MT and podium are scumpartners, but I'll get to my beef on him as an individual more in a bit.
IGMEOY/HOS: Podium
Podium, let us, together, read what I said about hiphop again, and then what hiphop said, and then what you said, because you are blowing things out of proportion here.
esurio, 99 wrote:Hiphop's 83 seems like he's trying too hard to put a non-random vote on someone. Too early to be scummy though, imo. Null for now.
hiphop, 83 wrote:First part i can possibly see as AtE as well as a promise that you will lurk. Right? As for the second part I see as sitting back and lurking, and not giving your input. It just reiterates the first point. Activity helps the town. vote exilon not a random vote.
podium, 104 wrote:hiphop places a serious vote based on little to no info, and you label it a null tell... i give an opinion based on an informative post and you label it a scum tell.
Note that I did not say it was a town action nor a scum action; you seem to have this idea in your head based on your reaction towards me that I am trying to excuse a clearly scummy action as one that is not scummy. This may require some background to understand, and so I am willing to forgive your ignorance in this matter, but I have been blasted in the past for trying too hard with my early cases as town before (will link this on request as well) and because of that I am inclined to be lenient when that is what I see from someone else. Since that was the vibe I got from hiphop's post, as opposed to one of malevolence (mind that scum are more likely to hop onto an already steam-powered bandwagon, and hiphop did not) I have mentally earmarked the post for later reference once we have some flips and player connections established, but as of right now I don't think there is anything alignment-related one way or the other about hiphop's post.
podium, 101 wrote:i wonder why you come after me so hard, yet ignore hiphop, if it's 'really' something that irks you.
Blatant misrep. The only thing I ever said irked me (and no, you don't get to use that word, that's one of my favourite words, goddamnit, and you haven't proved yourself worthy of it yet :<) was TLJ's non-reaction to my vote on him.
Let's just try and hold everyone to the same standard when it comes to 'agreeing' with other players
Let's not, as that would likely benefit scum. It's not so much the action of agreeing in and of itself so much as the manner in which the agreeing is done, and discouraging players from agreeing with each other at all would eventually undermine town. Echoing a statement of accusation over a misinterpretation at best/misrep at worst is far scummier than echoing agreement when a case has been talked to death already, for example.
@TLJ: Do you still find my case on podium to be "not justified"? Why or why not?
podium wrote: She considered someone making a comment based off of meaningful data more scummy than someone placing a vote based off of no data.
I think this here could sum up the brunt of our headbutting quite nicely. Y'see, I completely disagree that your comment regarding me was based off of meaningful data, where as you seem to think that a few sentences is adequate to get a read off of.
If it's 'too early' for Hiphop to be scum
Misrep/misinterpreting again. Not too early to be scum, too early to get a read off it. Hiphop has, frankly, not posted enough for me to feel like I have a read on him one way or the other. That is a problem, but we have scummier candidates than the relative lurkers right now.
I am curious, though, podium. I notice that despite our disagreements you have not OMGUS'ed me. What is your current opinion of me now that I've actually posted some things of substance? What is your opinion on MT now that he has been forced to come out of his shell a little more? Is there really no one you suspect more than TLJ at this time?
- PRE-POSTING REFRESH CHECK -
Hiphop, I understand where you're coming from, but calling someone town is not
always
a bad thing, despite what people on this site love telling all the newbies. When people flip (especially scum) it is sometimes helpful to look at who they called town and who they called scum. Like most things, though, it should be used in moderation, and the context defines the pro- or anti- townness of calling someone town. Defending someone you think is town from being lynched by stating that you think they are town >>>> writing a compact list of who you think is scum and who is town with little to no reasoning. Giving away who you think is what alignment is to some extent inevitable anyway.