Reading the thread before replacing in

[Flubbernugget]

Is it ethical to read a game before offering to replace into a slot? You can garner opinions from ignorance in a similar way to playing without reading your role pm.

[Sunlit Diamond]

I read the thread before replacing in because that way people don't have to wait for me to get caught up after knowing I've joined.

To explain: if I read first, someone else has the opportunity to replace in while I'm doing it. If I wait, the players have no choice but to wait for me.

Also? Frankly, there are play styles and scenarios I have no interest in willingly contending with. Reading ensures continued sanity for all concerned.

[Zachrulez]

Is it ethical to read a game before offering to replace into a slot? You can garner opinions from ignorance in a similar way to playing without reading your role pm.

Just don't give replacements a halo. Also if you're trying to read a player by their entrance where they read the game before coming in, you're looking in the wrong place for a read anyway.

[Vaxkiller]

I replace in to about half the games I play.

Sometimes I read/skim before I offer to replace, sometimes I read before I post, sometimes I do neither. I've actually sorted people out sometimes from asking questions like "What should I know?" or "What are the important events?"

I certainly don't think it's unethical to read a game before you replace.

[mhsmith0]

I find it perfectly ethical to read games before replacing in, and tend to do so fairly often.

In particular, I tend to:
1) Avoid games that are flagrantly toxic and unpleasant
2) Avoid games where I'm pretty sure I'd be replacing into a scum slot (since I dislike playing scum)

Sometimes I YOLO a replace in though *shrugs*

But I'd say the more unethical thing is the lazy/easy way that a lot of people replace OUT of games, rather than issues w replace-ins.

[kuribo]

Is it ethical to read a game before offering to replace into a slot? You can garner opinions from ignorance in a similar way to playing without reading your role pm.

It's not unethical, but I make it a point not to read the thread until I replace into the slot. Only thing I really look for is whether anyone I hate is already in the game.


Then again I also make it a point to try and not read the thread after I replace in either.

[Firebringer]

Is it ethical to read a game before offering to replace into a slot? You can garner opinions from ignorance in a similar way to playing without reading your role pm.

No

[nancy]

I only ever replace into games when I have it solved and know I'm replacing into a scum slot

This is how I finally got to play my first scumgame after never randing wolf!

[Creature]

For me it's a lot way easier to replace in and formulate your reads directly interacting with the other players in real time rather than reading what already passed.