Townie Responsibilities

[kuribo]

The problem is that almost every player will have different ideas of what post "seems to have the towns best interest in mind."

You and I can read the same post and come to very different conclusions about what it means or what the player is trying to do. And we might even both be wrong.

[Killthestory]

That's scumhunting in a nutshell.

[Accountant]

You can have towns best interest in mind and still be a liability

[callforjudgement]

Yes, but if someone's town, lynching them is unfortunately often a bad idea even

if

they're a liability.

It tends to be a better idea the earlier you are in the game (which is why policy lynches most often happen on Day 1). In fact, I suspect policy lynching the player with the most scumsided playstyle is the best play on Day 1 of a 2:11 mountainous game (basically because it hardly hurts your EV if they're town, you may well have to live with them all game otherwise as scum won't NK them, and there's always the chance that they happened to roll scum this game).

[Killthestory]

I prefer to just steamroll scum

[Ircher]

Yes, but if someone's town, lynching them is unfortunately often a bad idea even

if

they're a liability.

It tends to be a better idea the earlier you are in the game (which is why policy lynches most often happen on Day 1). In fact, I suspect policy lynching the player with the most scumsided playstyle is the best play on Day 1 of a 2:11 mountainous game (basically because it hardly hurts your EV if they're town, you may well have to live with them all game otherwise as scum won't NK them, and there's always the chance that they happened to roll scum this game).

Biased