ari: hi who do you think is most likely to flip mafia?
katya: maybe shadi?
then ~8 hours later
meowmeow - votes shadi for some post - not indication she is working with you?
katya: well that was a honeypot
~7 hours pass by~
meowmeow - if shadi is mafia then katya is mafia with him!
~12 hours later~
datisi: I'm promising this is not to pocket meowmeow *vote shadi*
katya: aha that was a honeypot!
I can kind of see how they could decide its p unnatural for you to do that?
it feels kind of premature to reveal its a honeypot when there's only two votes on the player instead of letting the trap run for longer to see what else it trawls up - there's no real danger to shadi that honeypot from a game perspective since there's only 2 votes on the wagon.
are you likely to have caught scum with the first two votes? not really? for something to be a real attractive honeypot there should be votes that make it a viable elimination first and it probably would have been more interesting if the wagon had built up more.
Hence it makes sense from this perspective for meowmeow to think your intention in revealing that its a "honeypot" is not to trap the mafia but rather to prevent the shadi wagon from building up even further. like saying something is a trap is likely to dissuade people from stepping into it - a soft defense of sorts.
One thing that I did find interesting is Dunnstral's post:
which came right after your honeypot post. and skimming his iso he seems to drop the shadi idea entirely and also somewhat fading from the game. so if there was anyone I'd bet on being scum who is kind of awkward around a town!shadi it would be Dunnstral.In post 307, Dunnstral wrote: I like the shadi wagon more than the Datisi wagon. Yackety sax feels towny.