That's because discussion in Secret Hitler is tepid at best and that combined with the high proportion of scum makes reads awful in general.In post 622, Klick wrote:Every game of Secret Hitler I’ve seen revolved way too much around attempted setup breaking and not enough around reads.
If you have one or two pet reads based on personal experience with a player, then that's probably +EV for town, but otherwise playing on reads over mechanics is likely to be -EV.
This is a case in point; you've never played with me (aside from One Night Werewolf which hardly counts), and I'm hard to read in regular mafia, let alone here where I'm mostly arguing mechanics.
This is true if you assume that forming reads is good for town. I'm not so sure that it is. Especially since, in the case of someone like me, it's impossible to remove mechanics from my view of the game, so any pure reads from me would either be informed by mechanics and so not pure reads, or utter garbage.I think there’s scum motivation in trying to direct gameplay solely via what’s statistically likely, because it limits opportunities to obtain reads.
And more than half the players in this game have something to their POV that they can't get rid of. So be warned. If you're looking for what appears to be real reads, you're gonna get fake ones a lot more easily.