In post 294, BlueBloodedToffee wrote:Nobody claims to be scum, that would be silly.
But, it's great information to work with and start the game. You can analyse the wagon; who was on it, who was off it, what was their reasoning for their respective decisions? Does the claim seem believable? How do other people react to the claim etc etc. Instead of all this happening on p25 with 6 hours to go till deadline and no time to analyse the new information (usually ending in the speedlynch of someone else if the original person run up claims a PR, leaving very little information to work with) I propose we do it earlier and give ourselves 12 days to analyse the information and decide on how to proceed.
No, I'm asking why you think people have a problem with early pressure. Not everyone who gets run up claims PR, either.
PEdit - Ploben, what is your read on Slandaar? You're very good at dodging questions; ever thought of going into politics?
While I agree that peoples' reactions would normally be a perfectly good reason to do this, I still can't understand why you admitted you were pushing for a claim. If you really did want to see whether or not Zeb would claim when pressured, why destroy the pressure by admitting to pushing for a claim? I do also agree that if we're going to force someone to decide whether or not to claim today because we plan to lynch them, it's better to do it earlier rather than later, but I present to you a scenario which could have happened (as a result of us pressuring someone who we had no idea whether we were actually going to lynch at the end of the day).
Zeb claims PR (doctor, cop, tracker, whatever). People aren't entirely convinced, but they find someone else who they'd rather lynch. Then Zeb is nightkilled and flips PR. I'm not going to ask a rhetorical question at the end of this, because that would be an insult to your intelligence. Draw your own conclusions.
Do people have a problem with early pressure? I think I said that I
don't
- I just find it very, very strange that you ruined your own attempt to pressure Zeb halfway in. Early pressure is all well and good, but my impression from your attempt was that you were trying to look like you were pressuring Zeb. Which... would actually lead me to the conclusion that you're both scum, and you were trying to look like you were bussing him without actually causing a lynch or putting too much pressure on him. That's the problem I have with what you did.
