Well it comes down to this... If we were to mislynch we would look at whoever pushed the wagon the hardest which I may be doing... I have pushed Ryan's wagon because I haven't liked his play... I feel his reasoning for voting Lowell is suspect... The reason I have backed off of Ryan is because Lowell hasn't been responding to my concerns... I do not agree with Trust that Lowell is MORE scummy than Ryan... I think as Trust says, Ryan has mis-interpreted posts and it has caught on... He and Jordan insist that "attempting a random bandwagon" is a bad thing... I happen to disagree with that assessment...
Let me break this down, the way I see it and then everyone can weigh in on my analysis... I would like to know how EVERYONE sees this...
Lowell wrote:unvote, vote Trustgossp to bandwagon a newbie and make him crack.
How's this, just tell us your scumbuddies and I'll let you live.
This is the first post quoted by Lowell's wagonners (Ryan, Jordan, and Albert). They imply that putting this third vote on Trust for no reason was a bad play, hoping to quicklynch a townie. Ryan's analysis is that bandwagonning is always scummy and he alludes to that here:
I’ve already stated my stance on “bandwagoning” This by the way was post #32 (three different votes in less than two pages of discussion)
Jordan concludes that it is scummy (since he includes the post in his case for Lowell being scum) with the reasoning that:
Jordan wrote:Jokey maybe, but still attempting a random bandwagon.
These posts assume that a random bandwagon is necessarily a bad thing... I have in previous posts argued reasons why it is a good thing and I think there is proof of that... Lowell wanted to get reactions so he popped his vote onto Trust...Immediately following Ryan says:
Ryan wrote:WHY would you bandwagon a potential townie? I'm not sure I like your tactics
Ryan over-reacts, exactly what Lowell was looking for...Now Lowell turns on him:
Lowell wrote:My apologies. That bandwagon was totally unnecessary. unvote, vote ryan. FEEEAAR me...
In addition to being a hilarious post IMO... This also illustrates the purpose of Lowell jumping on Trust. He never intended to run up Trust, he was looking for reactions to his move and caught Ryan trying to look like the UBER-cautious townie. Lowell though maybe back and forth has consitently fished for reactions and jumped on any reactions to his posts which looked suspicious... The interesting part to me is the difference in Jordan's stances... After Lowell voted for TrustGossip Jordan said:
Jordan Post #34 wrote:Random bandwagons are alright on day 1, they can sometimes make a scum crack under pressure. I once saw a game where the godfather was lynched day 1 based on effectively a random bandwagon.
Contrast that with his most recent analysis:
Jordan in his most recent analysis wrote:Jokey maybe, but still attempting a random bandwagon.
In the initial post Jordan seems to be of the mindset that a good random bandwagon can be useful, something echoed by myself, Hackerhuck, and Aimee specifically I believe... And now in his most recent post he uses this post and the analysis that Lowell is scummy because of "attempting a random bandwagon"... Which is it Jordan?
Jordan wrote:Lowell wrote:That summary of Aimee's makes me weirdly suspcious, but I'm not sure why. M'eh.
That is very suspicious, questioning a very good summary for liitle reason.
Lowell Please respond to this point specifically... I have thought about this post and believe I understand why Lowell was put off by it but I do no want to force feed him responses...
Jordan wrote:Still going after Ryan with next to no evidence, and then just hopping onto the most popular bandwagon citing his reason as 'people like it'. Classic scum.
This is interesting because I believe at the time Lowell wasn't "going after Ryan", he was making fun of the wagon on him which I believe had "next to no evidence"... And while I will agree with you that "Classic scum" would hop onto a popular wagon, I would disagree that they would label it as such... It would be wonderful if all scum would just hop onto every major wagon and say "I don't care what this person said that made you all so angree but count me in for the lynch"... That would make this game so much easier... Unfortunately sometimes towns people will do something that people find otherwise "scummy" simply to draw out reactions...And Lowells play thus far (with the exception of the recent lack of contribution) has stuck me as deliberately searching for people's reactions to his actions
Lowell wrote:Good post. This guy is town.
Now comes the part where opportunists jump on me!
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To deliberately quote this post in a case against him is ludacris. In this post he shows exactly what he is looking for and someone hops right on?
Lowell has allowed himself to garner attention because he doesn't mind putting himself in danger to find scum... It strikes me as a pro-town attitude because scum cannot afford to put themselves on the line.
I know that I put myself on the line defending Lowell but I simply do not see the case for him... I am asking for him to respond to my comments but the more I think about it the more I understand his play. Please I ask everyone in this game to respond to my analysis... If I am wrong about the utility of bandwagons, prove it to me... If I mischaracterize someone's intentions please let me know... What am I missing from Lowell's posts that is so scummy?