In post 1127, BlueBloodedToffee wrote:
In the hopes of finally getting an answer? <-
I was thinking more along the lines of rhetoric.
Trick is very confusing. He seems quite random and his thoughts come across like he is all over the place. It makes him difficult to read for me, a lot of the things he does come across as pro-town, I just don't feel like that's what the intention is from his side sometimes. His constant vote-switching and wagon-hopping is concerning though, and he does this all the time. I will be spending some time trying to figure Trick out if I get the opportunity, I don't feel that right now is the correct time to be switching my attention elsewhere.
<- if you don't get lynched today you almost certainly will have time.
NM is pretty obvious. I have stated why I am town-reading NM and unless something pretty drastic happens, my read on him won't be changing any time soon. I'm not wasting time/energy on somebody who I feel comfortable with my read on.
<- But what about the rest of us who aren't comfortable with him? Would you just let him be lynched?
I feel I have been fairly open with how I am reading people in the game. I don't see how this is an issue, I don't like that you're trying to understand how you're being read by me and others. You're not on my lynch list for D2.
<- I don't care? Even if you were, it wouldn't happen. I'm wondering why on gods green earth is someone who is supposedly town not looking at someone's posts? you don't see how I could find this strange?
PEdit - I didn't ask NM for his read on me. I judged his reaction and posts to the situation that was ongoing to build a read on him. It is useful to understand how you're being read, of course it is; but coming out and flat-out asking 'How are you reading me?' just comes across as scummy to me.
<- Yeah, but you've failed to explain how it's anymore scummy than, you know, not asking and getting a read on yourself, players will still be held to these reads and questioned on them, they're not any less useful just because someone asked for a read, versus someone asking for a more generalized "what are your reads? or someone else asking, "what do you think of X?"
I agree that I am contradicting myself a bit here. I have never seen it from the other point of view, it's normally me saying 'Why are you voting me?' or 'Why are you reading me this way?' This is the first time I have read it from the other perspective and it does come across as scummy. Although, I think 'why' and 'how' questions are slightly different. Why is more of a justification whereas how relates more to seeking information.
<- What other point of view, how does it across as scummy? As for the last part, I don't really understand. I think of "how" as their actions in relation to the information they've provided (I.e., voting, defending, attacking, arguing) and "why" as their reasons for such action.
