NewbScum Greeting Tell

[u r a person 2]

a greeting post is any post that greets the entire thread, rather than a specific player or players. Usually this comes at the start of a post, but I've also seen it come in the middle of posts. Scum can be tricky, after all ;P

Your post is a classic example!

Loopdan, I really appreciate you putting this together, lol

[u r a person 2]

Another way to look at it is that on average roughly one newb scum a game is going to use a greeting tell. I know that's not a hard conclusion of the data posted because games could have 2 se scum, etc, but it gives a very early, and statistically indicative way to focus my attention in newbie games and I like that.

[u r a person 2]

Anecdotally it is super not effective against people with like 5 games under their belt or one game with me

[u r a person 2]

all i know, is that if you look at newbie slots with 1st post thread-wide greetings and one of those slots look scummy independent of this tell, they are probably scum

and if you look at those slots and all of them look townie outside of that, your scum is probably in the SEs

and if no one greets the thread, your scum is probably in the SEs

[u r a person 2]

What if you are scum? Please advise.

scum read greeting and never look back ;P

[u r a person 2]

This is my first post in my first (well, somewhat) game.

Greetings. If my name is too long for you to type, you may call me JP Gantt or just JP.
Just don't call me JPG because I am a real life human being, not some pixelated piece of art.

With that said.

@Inferno390

, why are you bothered about the miller claim now instead of few hours before, when you placed a vote?

I was town though.

this is the kind of post where I would immediately call it a likely false positive because line 2 and the question don't jive with my expectation for uncomfortable scum entrances where greetings are produced

[u r a person 2]

Is it possible to use your dataset to check this tell on a higher sample siZe easily?

[u r a person 2]

okay, that's not a precise recreation but that tracks with my experiences outside of newbie games