Here’s my player analysis, some parts are longer than others. That’s just how it happened.
Primate:
Early on pulled a ‘let’s bandwagon someone’-‘vote: first person to vote for the suggester’ trick, which is of course fundamentally flawed in that people come online at different times. Defends Mariyta on playstyle grounds. Admits to being a semi-lurker. Rightly points to the Spamwise-DGB-Coron argument as the most interesting period in the game so far. I don’t feel that Primate is suspicious at this point.
Dodgy:
Speaks out against SpamWise, describes quite vehemently why he thinks SW is scummy, then says ‘well, I always find you scummy’ and dismisses it again. I don’t like this – if you always find someone scummy, act on your suspicions. It’s their problem that they give you scum tells. I also was a little concerned about him being so friendly with Mariyta about their previous game. I make a point of it, he asks a question of it, I answer, and he…well, actually he doesn’t bring it up again.
Dodgy wrote: Well either that or they are just bloody lurking!
Distancing yourself from lurkers by publicly damning them? (Note: I don’t consider this a
strong
point against Dodgy but I felt I should include it.)
Does later act on SpamWise suspicions. I feel better about him as a result. Then selectively quotes Primate (although mistaking him for Erotomachia). I’m not as suspicious of this as I was earlier, as re-reading Primate’s full post I got the same sort of worry that Dodgy expressed.
I agree wholeheartedly with his views on MBF recently. At the moment I am not really suspicious of Dodgy but I am watching him more carefully than others I feel the same way about. I am also unsure as to why my analysis of him is so much longer than everybody else's.
Atticus:
Suggests a Primate-Mariyta scum partnership
very
early on. Then says it would have looked scummy if it wasn’t so early. Is a keen user of the ‘I always look scummy’ ploy. It’s
your
problem to solve. I feel Atticus is defensive, quick to jump to conclusions and likes to ask overly-dramatic questions of people. One of the most ping-happy on my scumdar.
FoS: Atticus
Mikeburnfire (rep. delvar):
Votes an alarming number of different people in quick succession before saying ‘Mariyta is the lynch!!!!!one’. I thought his posts were good earlier on but am becoming more suspicious.
FoS: MBF
Mariyta:
Mariyta wrote: And there's something wrong with commenting on something I thought was cool but may not directly effect the game?
Yes, if that’s the majority of your posts. Seriously, over 50% of your contribution to this game has been random voting and irrelevant chatter. Despite my uncomfort with MBF I agree that you are suspicious, much more after going through your posts than just reading the game as it unfolds.
FoS: Mariyta
DrippingGoofball (rep. Boddah):
I didn’t like her talk about masons immediately after she replaced in. She also says she is torn between SpamWise and Atticus despite not very long before that saying she’d rather Atticus didn’t claim on a gut feeling. I understand gut feelings can change but you did not give any indication between these posts that your feelings regarding to Atticus were changing at all. I have a vague gut feeling that she is town but I trust my head a bit more than my gut.
FoS: DrippingGoofball
Yosarian2:
Yosarian is the player along with Coron that I feel most confident of his pro-town-ness. I agree with a number of his points and don’t feel he has shown any scummy signs.
SpamWise:
Made me cringe a couple of times, mostly when he saved Primate’s behind but I feel it’s the sort of mistake I myself would have made. Read into that what you will, though… =/
Coron:
I am not suspicious of Coron. I have read a few games in which he played and I don’t feel his playstyle is either particularly scummy or different to usual.
FierceDeity:
Lurking in the extreme. Earlier he said he wasn’t suspicious of anyone – scummy, but at the time I was having a hard time forming opinions too. My gut says he’s lurking because the game is a bit lost on him.
Erotomachia:
Suffered from vague bouts of lurking. At this point I remain undecided on him.
So, to sum up, I am suspicious of (in no particular order):
DrippingGoofball
Mariyta
MBF
Atticus
Out of those, I am most worried about the latter two. Atticus has been the most common pinger of the scumdar though so I am happy to
Vote: Atticus
at least for the time being.
