I literally just woke up, so I apologize if I'm a bit... durpy.
Caught up, & I initially feel there are two people I'd like to address:
Oacenth
&
goodmorning
.
First off,
Oacenth
... I do agree with the general consensus that you should contribute more. There's of course only two options to explain your behavior: you're new & apprehensive town, or(the more likely imho, if only by a fraction of a percent) you're new & self-conscious scum. I personally get a null vibe at first, but when I begin to think critically about your reasons, I do feel it's more scummy not to say anything. & this is my own personal feeling on it; it's not a matter of going "by the book" & assuming not saying as much is auto-scum(after all, it's not, & the very concept of "tells" & the like is, for the most part, inconsequential since it's always going to be a case-by-case situation when it boils down to it... seriously I am not sold on a single tell outside of LaL). It's more that, if given the choice, there's no good reason to choose to sit back and wait. It literally benefits nobody, I think, except scum. It means one less pair of eyes on things to catch stuff others are missing, one less mind put forth to aid in the power of our critical thinking, and one less person with an opinion to stack up or against others. It's disadvantageous to the town, no matter how you slice it.
If you say, well, the person is trying to lay low coz they're a power role, I'd disagree. I mean, a PR may choose do that, but they'd only ultimately draw more attention to themselves if they did this from the start(as evidenced by what is literally going on right now - people voicing their concerns over your activity level)... plus a PR is still town and shouldn't be excluded from the responsibility to find & hang scum during the day.
You could also say, oh, this person is simply new and lost and is afraid to talk should they misstep and get hanged even as an innocent... to which I'd argue that it's better to get things moving and certainly die(even though it's not certain, but again just going by their fears, here) than to not contribute and still potentially die(thereby leaving the game having helped nothing, only hurting your chances of winning as town... remember: always play to win).
Lastly, you may argue this person is just a quiet/shy person naturally, so more shouldn't be expected out of them, which I'd respond to with: you're playing the wrong game. Either change yourself, or change what games you participate in.
I do not mean to be harsh, & am only encouraging you to speak up more! I hope you do.
Moving on, I'll address your post on mystery reads,
goodmorning
- why not?
Honestly, & I realize this is probably completely stupid, but I was initially thinking your 4 had to do with the content of the post itself. That is, there were the names of people in your post, that you quoted when responding to them. My guess was initially that those were your reads. Yeah that's only 3 - I got the 4th from your vote on
Oacenth
at the time. Now, though, I'm not so sure... with your tone it seems that I may well be quite wrong & just wandering off in a different direction entirely than what you had intended.
Still, just gonna make it clear for the record: I initially guessed your reads were
Oacenth
, myself,
kuror0
, and
SkiddishRaddish
.
The numbers fit right & I thought it was a possibility. However, particularly after rereading the post's content, I doubt it's the case... mainly because your response to
SkiddishRaddish
was entirely an IC reply, haha. Oops.
Since then it'd been made obvious that I was at least a bit correct, though. You actually were straight up about it in your initial post & I did catch that, but you also continued to point it out - score 1!
So your confirmed reads are
Oacenth
for scum,
Nmego
for town, and... ????
Anyway... my brain died. Uh. I'll post more later, then, I guess.
Oh & for the record, I have no particularly strong reads, but a lot of little "feelings" here or there, sometimes conflicting. But I guess that's to be expected.
