Tolyk:Since Phantom seems to be MIA, and since Capain Ford seems to be rocking in logic () I'll let him answer this question:
Phantom: What do you think about this statement: "People tend to give examples of what they'd do if they were of a different alignment than they really are (if they are asked), and tend to ask questions that put the addressed person into their alignment. The first part is to throw people off their scent, while the second part is to get suggestions on how others would play their alignment." What part is true (if any), and what part is logically incorrect (if any)?
People do both of those things, and they also do them for the reasons listed, but those are not necessarily the only reasons.
Tiruin:On that note, I'm a mason.
You're town, aren't you, Captain Ford?
Aren't we all?
Still makes no sense why he'd joke around as a Townie.
Yeah, I can see you still don't get it.
fa·ce·tious
Treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor; flippant.
I didn't choose that word arbitrarily to describe it. It was deliberately and blatantly inappropriate. But I was also making a point when I said.
It was not "just a joke". It was not a serious claim, but I was making a serious point.
Now,
I could be wrong, but neither you nor ZU even tried to fault my argument. You both just took the claim at face value, which I found to be really personally insulting. Dariush actually did give me a counter-argument, but I think he's wrong, for the reasons I stated.
I've done a lot of thinking about this and ... you know what, I'll just post part of it.
Cheat Sheet:
Scum want to look like townies to masons, and like masons or townies to townies.
Masons want to look like townies to scum, and like masons or townies to townies.
Townies want to look like townies to masons, and like masons to scum.
+ Masons and scum are effectively indistinguishable from each other. Unless you are on one of the teams.
-> Townies trying to look like masons therefore run the risk of looking like scum to the actual masons.
+ Scum have no incentive to MK a person who is about to be lynched.
-> Therefore townies trying too hard to look like a mason are being counterproductive.
Everyone has an incentive to look like a mason. Townies can kill scum (and get closer to winning the game) if they can fool scum into trying to kill them.
The only protection the masons have is the townies. The masons can only survive so long as the scum can't tell them apart. It's therefore definitely in the townie's interests to not look 'too townie'. However, townies that go too far may end up looking like scum to the actual masons.
Oh, also, one of the great things about this setup is that when a mafia performs a daykill against a townie (like Nerjin just did), nobody knows who his target was, not even his allies. They're forced to guess who he targeted. So it's entirely possible for the entire scum team to wipe themselves out on the same townie.
So logically, if the townie gets any sort of PM about it, they really
shouldn't disclose it.
Ford:
Taking my statement out of context ... really hurts. Damn it. I have an indescribable burning hatred for people that do that. It makes it very hard to have an intelligent conversation when everything you say is twisted. It makes one feel powerless, and I regard it as the most underhanded thing a person can do to someone else.
I still feel my argument is valid, and that your certainty is only justifiable if you're scum. If you think I'm wrong, explain why.
For example, this is an appeal to emotion. You're trying to guilt him away from voting you instead of convincing him you're a bad person to vote.
Is it because you're not a bad person to vote and don't have an argument otherwise? It just might be.
That's not the reason I brought it up. I realized that people were going to notice I was upset, and I wanted them to know why, because the reasons are immaterial to my alignment.
If you actually felt sorry for me, then I apologize. That was not my intention.
So you say, at least. I'm not totally sold on that.
I'd like to add that it was a bad decision on my part to include that.
Noteworthy, though, is that you admit it was a knee-jerk OMGUS and yet don't do anything to change it.
I don't think I did. I overreacted. But I don't think it was an OMGUS. I think I had a valid reason for suspecting him.
Obviously, it's a matter of opinion. But twisting what someone else said is a classic way of discrediting someone when they really haven't done anything wrong. It's just scummy.
In the light of day, I can clearly see he was doing it just to see what kind of reaction it would provoke.
I didn't change my vote because I had a terrible headache and couldn't finish my post. I hadn't yet decided how I was going to handle my vote, so it didn't get handled in that post.
Actually, I'm willing to bet you're not a mason. Town versus scum... not decided yet. Why not mason? I bet you wouldn't claim mason as mason.
Sure I wouldn't. Because it certainly doesn't make me look like I'm not a mason. Oh wait...
Deathsword:Deathsword: You were awfully quick to jump on the bandwagon, weren't you?
You also jumped pretty hard when notquitethere named you in one of his posts. Seems like you don't want anyone thinking you're on a team.
And you were quite quick to jump on me for attacking NQT, weren't you? And just as quick to shift your vote to do an OMGUS.
NQT made a slip. When Tiruin accused him of buddying up to me, he immediately tried to diver attention by asking you a question, and then quickly shifting that question to Tiruin. He was quick to OMGUS me for a pressure vote and a mild attack, and now he is jumpier than ever. He is scum, and you, Ford, might be too.
He copped up to making a mistake.
In case you missed it. We're both players in
BM 38, which is still ongoing and I'm sure he's paying close attention to.
Also ... now that I look at the definition, my vote wasn't an
OMGUS. I voted him primarily for twisting my words. His voting me was incidental. I think the phrase OMGUS is overused in a lot of situations where it really doesn't apply. Also, I've never seen any reasoning for why an OMGUS is an indicator of anything.
And, um. Tiruin didn't accuse NQT of buddying.
He accused him of being your buddy.
Buddying is something done between people on different teams. Tiruin accused you of being on the same team.
You were the first person to accuse NQT of buddying,
Deathsword. And it seemed apparent to me that NQT just picked a random name off the list. Thus his
facetious reply to Tiruin's question.
So to me, accusing him of buddying is ludicrous. It's obvious your name was picked out of a hat. You'd probably only think it was buddying if you were overly sensitive to it. Which can only mean you don't want it look like you're his teammate.
I wasn't inclined to think you were on the same team, or that you were on a team at all until you reacted to it. So I'm not sure why you did.
I will admit to jumping in to protect NQT. Because that's what I did. I did it because I thought your reasons for voting him were bullshit. I still do.
Addressing this specifically:He was quick to OMGUS me for a pressure vote and a mild attack, and now he is jumpier than ever.
I don't think it was an OMGUS. I think you looked like you were overreacting and that was a perfectly valid reason for him to investigate you. I do think that you are trying very hard to incriminate both of us with very little cause.
You seem to think he's being jumpy for ... putting your name in red twice in the same post? Are you serious? It looks completely natural to me. And I happen to think it's an effective means of applying pressure,
Deathsword.
From what I can see, he's calm and collected in the way he's responding to your posts. You're the one who's jumpy and pulling crap out of nowhere.
To sum up,
Deathsword:
- Do you still think NQT was buddying you?
Wow. I didn't really expect to see a [acryonym=I like this word. I'm keeping it.]dox[/acronym] this early. Let alone one that ended in dead scum.
...I want to review Nerjin's activity for leads, but I'm going to have to leave that for another post. This WoT is big enough already.
...and for good measure,
Deathsword. (I hope you can see the humor in this)