Spectators in Newbie Games
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Spectators in Newbie Games
I notice that ICs serve to teach newbies while also playing, but I think it's hard to do that while also maintaining zero bias.
They also sometimes get NK'd/lynched early, and their teaching experience stops there.
How effective would spectator IC/SEs be in Newbie games? They'd only comment on mechanics/theory, explain abbreviations/posts etc, last through the game, and carry no bias.- Lycanfire
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Nah. If anything, treestump the existing IC as a neutral alignment.
Then the only bias involved is the IC's alignment preference.
Not that I'm advocating this option, but it would make more sense than interlopers.Does this post forward a scum win con, or do you just think I'm strange?
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Bias in a spectator/dead IC is impossible to avoid.- If they're as uninformed as a spectator, they're more likely to be game-solving and thus pro-town.
- If they know who PRs are, they're probably going to be subconsciously biased towards advice for those roles.
- If they know who the scum are, they're more likely to accidentally have advice for their exact situation that players can link.
- If they're as informed as the mod, might as well have the mod do the job, and it's generally considered that's not good.
This should be required reading for...everyone for anything, really.- TesXX
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Toomai wrote:Bias in a spectator/dead IC is impossible to avoid.- If they're as uninformed as a spectator, they're more likely to be game-solving and thus pro-town.
- If they know who PRs are, they're probably going to be subconsciously biased towards advice for those roles.
- If they know who the scum are, they're more likely to accidentally have advice for their exact situation that players can link.
- If they're as informed as the mod, might as well have the mod do the job, and it's generally considered that's not good.
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