Scumreading and Rudeness

[Nancy Drew 39]

I have noticed this in a number of games I’ve played, both here and offsite as well. Some townies seem to be of the opinion, that it’s perfectly fine to treat one’s scumreads like crap.

Yes, I know scum are the bad guys but they’re also human beings who don’t choose their alignment. I was in a game - offsite - a little while ago where one player who mistakenly scumread me, proceeded to treat me like garbage because of it. I was so deflated by this, that I gave up any hope of being ever correctly read in that game and sealed my eventual mislynch by choking.

It is my opinion that you should try your best to treat other players with respect - irrespective of what alignment you happen to be reading them as.

Not allowing a player to get away with anything super sketchy and calling them out on their shit, is part of effective scumhunting but I don’t think it’s ever necessary or justified IMHO, to ever treat them as subhuman, is my point.

[Nancy Drew 39]

What people in this thread fail to understand is that randing wolf is a deep and fundamental moral failure, and that any time someone has potentially randed wolf, they are rejecting you as a human being, and therefore an emotion and vitriol laden method to push them is the most appropriate response humanly possible

Or maybe the opposite of that.

-Slightly modified from Mhsmith0

Except when it fails spectacularly like in the example, I mentioned.

[Nancy Drew 39]

I don’t envy you. Rolling scum first game is rough. It’s not fun to have dead thread happy you’re dead and rooting for your side’s demise.

[Nancy Drew 39]

Some people - even those who ought to know better - directly insult other players* intelligence. MS shoild have a 0 tolerance for this despicable behaviour, and no one ought to be exempt.