Firstly, I would like a vote count, and I'm voting for an
Extend. It's day 1, and we're nowhere near a consensus on who to lynch today.
To
everyone who listed me and Tiruin as null:
If you have a null read on anyone, especially an IC, get rid of that by asking them questions or scumhunting them. I'd like to especially applaud 4maskwolf, who seems to be already doing that to me.
A question to Everyone. (Making it huge since people seem to be missing these)
Would everyone please be so kind as to provide your current reads, now that we are out of RVS?
Certainly.
Solymr: Appears to be bandwagoning on LARD with a ambiguous reason: "pretty much everything he says points to scum", medium scum lean.
LARD: Haven't seen him in a little, but it is the weekend. Plays Mafia differently than the other players, but I don't necessarily find that scummy. What I do find scummy is how he unvoted 4maskwolf under slight pressure. Slight scum lean
Darkpaladin109: Needs to get in here and play better. Larger scum lead.
Mastahcheese: seems fairly town to me, because of activity/content.
Tiruin: I know you're busy with life, but I would like help here. Null read.
Graknorke: Learning null. Seems slightly averse to lynching lurkers for some reason.
4maskwolf: Not sure, need to go back and reread his posts, but I'm currently leaning town.
TDS: Seems to be doing better this game than other games I've seen him in. Leaning town.
Me: IC, null read
Ah, okay. If you had to lynch a lurker, what day would be the most optimal for doing so?
I really don't know. A day1 lynch is important, and it's not really useful if everybody just immediately decided on lynching the lurker, so I don't think day 1. By day 2 though there's already been a day of discussion, a lynch, and (probably) a NK to make decisions over. At that point discussion can sort of continue itself, even without a 'meaningful' lynch. So I suppose day 2.
Interesting Idea. Most people seem to think a Day 1 lurker lynch is best, but you raise a good counterpoint.
Though I wouldn't could RVS as being over, because LARD still hasn't responded satisfactorily to my pressure vote. I'm honestly quite tempted to leave it as a lynch vote, since he's been sitting on a supposed rebuke for more than 24 hours.
RVS more refers to Random Vote Stage, than pressure voting. Random voting is more for the very beginning of the game, when you randomly choose someone to vote and question. To me, your vote on LARD seems more for finding scummy things about him. Aslo, it's the weekend, so usually people don't post as often, so you should likely cut him a little slack.
Persus13 - This one's harder. Since he's an IC, I would expect Persus to be more active, and generally asking better questions than everyone else. Still though, I can't draw conclusions based on 'well of course they would look like that because they're better informed than me'. So I'll just have to accept that I know nothing and abstain from having an opinion.
Tiruin - Similarly, and opinion I claimed would be completely uneducated. I can't even say that she's polite, because scum can (and should) be polite too.
Don't abstain from having an opinion.
Everyone, how comfortable do you feel with a lynch at this point?
Not comfortable at all. The fact that everyone is currently piling on him makes me think either Tiruin or DP is his partner, or that he's town and scum are trying to Mislynch. Given that its Day 1, I'm going with the latter.
And another question for Everyone: Ignoring how scummy any individual is, who do you think is likely to be NKd today?
I have my own thoughts but I suppose it would ruin a question like this if I gave an answer to this question right underneath it.
This question is useless and encourages WIFOM. And why should people ignore how scummy people are? The scum won't.
Persus13: Care to give us a little more analysis of the game so far? What are your reads on various people?
I think that several players are taking their first steps. Graknorke is heading in the right direction, LARD seems to be going slightly different from everyone else, and DP has refused to take any steps. Right now I'm in a paranoid, "anyone could be scum" stage of playing.
I plan to keep a close eye on Graknorke, Solymr, Tiruin, and you, especially, for closer scanning, and as possible scum suspects. My reads I gave to Mastahcheese and my thoughts on the current dogpile on LARD are already stated.