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» Sun Jun 10, 2018 4:23 am
I normally use meta only as a defence (i.e. "this would be a scumtell from most people, but isn't from person X").
However, I don't believe self-meta is valid for anything. Meta normally only works on people who aren't aware with it, so someone making a meta argument on themselves is pretty much intrinsicially invalidating their own argument. (As Wisdom's mention of trust tells is suggesting: if you're aware that there's something you do that indicates you're a particular alignment, and yet you don't do the "townish version" of it as scum, you're effectively not playing to win. So the only valid self-meta would be something that you're physically incapable of faking as scum despite being easily able to do it as town, and I find it very hard to see that situation arising.)
The specific example in the OP seems more like a meta-meta tell to me, though (which is something I've been meaning to write about: if someone's meta describes the way they in particular act, their meta-meta describes the way that other people act towards them in particular). Knowing your own meta-meta is very useful and one of the tools that's been more useful for me in catching scum. I haven't seen it used as a defence before, but there's no obvious reason why "people who say X about me are usually wrong" is necessarily an invalid statement, nor necessarily anything that the person being spoken about has any influence on.
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callforjudgement on Sun Jun 10, 2018 8:52 am, edited 1 time in total.
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