I'd have finished this post sooner, but I received my books yesterday night and had to spend my time reading urgent coursework. As I've mentioned, busy busy.
Alright. I'm sifting through the first two days, and this is what I can see:
Imperial Guardsman's voting pattern has consisted of voting people that start to have votes piled on them and FOSing other people in similar situations. He skims from cases and takes those as arguments when asked. I really don't see what he has contributed to this game himself - it smells of "I can't be bothered to investigate myself" rather than "I'm new/a flaming idiot".
I can see where people voting him get their cases, but I don't think it's him. I'd be surprised, in fact, if it was - a scum player wouldn't play this way. There have been quiet scum, and it's a tactic that's been used several times (refer to scum Think in some Paranormal game), but usually when it's this blatant it's just a jackass town half-assing the game. You can see that in BMs, and that's where a lot of other noobs will pick it up and vote the lurker for lack of a better choice (or because of by-the-book play). I've only seen one case of this as scum before, and that was in KOTM with BDthemag, who was overall a terrible player.
Alamoes is very quiet. Sure, he has posted a bit, but little content. He's answered questions and posted commentary one-liners; his investigations are in the BM-RVS style that usually leads nowhere, and he claims to read the thread but shows little for it. He makes little comment on what he has found or what he's doing, and other than the RVS mentioned doesn't try to pursue a case. His D2 case on NQT is weak; while the one point he has is revealing, the town flip notwithstanding, he doesn't mention anything else.
What happened to all that reading, Alamoes?Since you all have been waiting long enough for a post from me, I'll leave this here for now and come back when I've done a thorough dig-through for all of you. Now that there are fewer players it shouldn't take as long.
Extend.To expand on what I said above:
LS flipped mafia, so this looks like backing up a fellow mafia player. Also the bandwagon point is TERRIBLE.
The null part is incredibly lazy.
The slightly scummy part is kinda lazy too and he pretty much copied what I said about Ford. Note that what he said about Alamoes sounds like advice.
The scummy part is mostly BS and repeated arguments.
And he's being too cautious on the hammer thing.
ppe'd Okami
Frankly, Deathsword isn't all that great a player. I can't read my predecessor's mind, but I'll try my best to defend myself.
The first and last point is TERRIBLE. Why? Because not only was Leafsnail's Zrk2 lynch incredibly popular at the time that your quote was written, his case was one that was well received. Note what Okami (at least prior to that kill-announce), The Soldier, Vector, and Tiruin have done during D1. Your argument, had they been alive to be applied to, would just as easily do for them - and they've flipped town, so their behaviour is in earnest. Why not mine?
The bandwagon point is not related to the game, so I don't see how you can discredit his position by
emphasising that.
"The null part is incredibly lazy" is not only inapplicable, it is blatant use of hyperbole. You know that. He gave you his reads - had he said "Oh, everyone is null right now" I'd have agreed, but there is nothing wrong with saying that you don't have a confirmed alignment for someone.
Now, your point about alamoes is, if I read that sentence correctly, as follows: He seems to be giving advice to alamoes. Now, that means he's probably scum, since scum would want to support his fellows and give advice to them. While this is good on surface inspection, what is wrong about this line of thought?
It's wrong because it's not grounded in reality. The
reality is that scum have a
scumchat. That means that they can communicate privately. More to the point, it means that this subtle advice-giving under the table or what have you is all
unnecessary. The only alignments forced to do this would be those without private chats, and what are they? Town, or third-parties, the latter of which don't have a motive to work with others.
Unless, y'know, it was to help a noob. Players aren't solely mafia-motivated.