(FYI, everyone: I'll be out of town from Friday after work until late Saturday)
Who's ready for Hapah's Wall-O-Text? I hope you are!
Leafsnail: Votecount, please (and time to day end since I'm bad at timezones apparently)
No activity tonight? Sad Hapah is sad.
Toaster: There appear to be some issues with your arguments for Ford's lynch.
1: He was online during the kill send in.
It has been
confirmed that not only could someone hide their online status and submit the vote, they could even do it from a completely different account if they so desired. Your first point isn't nearly as damning as it looks at first glance. Anyone could have sent the vote, couldn't they?
2: He made the tie 30 minutes before deadline.
Someone
voting to maybe save their own hide isn't really scummy, is it? You
agreed that this point is weak yourself in the same post that you laid it out.
3: He's breaking his calm character and becoming belligerent at my case.
Sure he is. I mean, you're basically meta-ing him to death. How can you reasonably defend yourself from "you were online, therefore you are probably scum"? There's no clear way to fight back when you lined it up like that, especially if you are relatively new as he is.
There's also the fact that you
were the first one to really lean on Ford. You said these two lines right after the day opened:
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1. Whoever broke the tie had to be online between Leaf's two posts to send in the tiebreaker.
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Removing those who haven't been online and therefore couldn't have sent the tiebreak:
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You pushed that idea hard and fast. You've also suggested that you
aren't afraid to use meta to break the game should the opportunity arise, but you're not looking very hard. Hell, I got the right idea (though maybe/probably the wrong implementation) before I had finished reading the page. I know you are clever enough to have cast the tiebreaker yourself and then push the idea that it couldn't have been you.
I could chalk a few of these up to honest mistakes, y'know? Maybe you didn't think of the hide status/offline thing. Maybe you didn't think through the fact that tying the vote isn't a scummy thing to do when it's your own neck on the line. I could deal with that.
But the thing is, you haven't tried to correct any of these misconceptions or draw any new conclusions. By the time you had posted your lynch reasons #1 was certainly false, and #2 you agreed was weak, but you are "not willing to unvote him just yet" for no obvious reason. You didn't want to remove your Ford vote when I asked for a little time "Because you had zero issue seeing him hang and didn't care to remove your vote". You are still pushing reasons that are shaky or patently false, and you are still voting Ford for these same reasons. Why? I would like to hear your thoughts.