Scripten: Yes, I am talking about Deathsword. And, if Deathsword continues to active lurk, then I'll most likely vote on him.
How am I
active lurking? You could accuse me of lurking and have some merit to those claims (Most of the time I am just browsing the forums from my phone at either class or work, and touchscreens, quotes and formating don't work together, at all). I can only post either at night, when I'm tired, or when I go home between class and work to eat, which is now.
Yobbo: At the end of D1 you claimed I failed to answer a question. However, after reading it quite a few times, I haven't found that question. If you still want it answered, could you ask it again?
Illgeo and Deathsword: What made Blitz look so scummy? Just a lot of low content posts? How is that different from a new town player wanting to participate but not knowing how to get the ball rolling?
Was it this one? Because I answered it
in this postAnailater: My... Opinion? Hmm... Well, our situation is currently slightly shit, what with the losing of one of our own.
Everyone: How 'bout your opinions on our current situation?
{Ok, before I do anything else: QUOTE DAMN IT. QUOTE THE QUESTIONS YOU ARE ANSWERING! It's a single click and the only excuse not to do it is using a smartphone to play (which is a bad idea)
Losing town in the first day (and night) is pretty common. Tragic, but nothing to panic about. It is actually useful because you can go back and read their interactions with others knowing they are town.}
Here you ask a generic, zero-effort question to nobody in particular. And then you accuse me of active-lurking, oh the irony.
Well that couldn't have gone any worse....
We still have a cop or jailkeeper or maybe both, so it's definitely not as bad as it could be.
{There are always both in this setup. Same goes for scum roleblocker}
I'm actually a little unsure as to what to do now, can i ask for some IC advice?
And i don't get why Guiddom got killed. He hadn't posted much at all, and had only joined on with everyone else in voting Nerjin. That seems like he'd be way better for scum to keep alive. Is there even much i can read into that? Did they maybe just choose randomly?
{Exactly because of that is why he was killed. Scum choose targets that can't be traced back to them. A player that only did "ok" is the perfect target.}
Maybe we should all post general reads and/or thoughts? I'm still wondering about why posting reads is good but i have seen it done a lot. (If anyone could answer my previous question as to why it's good and not bad i'd be grateful. I looked on mafiascum but i didn't see anything about it).
{Because it forces the player to analyze the posts of others, thus hopefully causing to make a case or catching a slip.}
Scripten: Deflect questions? Mind giving me a list? Probably just didn't notice them.
Don't know nearly enough about the other players to get a reading, but I don't think Deathsword is scum. Take my word with a grain of salt, though.
Well, I would have thought a different person was scum presumably. Not much else to do.
Deflecting isn't missing. Deflecting means you just give a generic answer to a question, you.. shrug it off, so to speak.
Scripten explained quite well:
BlitzDungeoneer: It's not so much that you're avoiding answering questions outright. It's more that you give the absolute minimum amount of information just so you can say "Look, I've answered it!" For example, when I asked about your reads, you gave a single, weak read. Giving out as much information as you can without revealing roles is good town behavior. We want to know who you suspect and why. We want to know where you stand on the situation almost all the time so that we can work off of that. Right now, all I know is that you aren't sure if Deathsword is scum, or want us to think that. What you said could have just as easily been taken as you wanting to get people off of Deathsword's back because you two are a scumteam, want to create suspicion toward Deathsword by suggesting that you are trying to protect him, or that you are a detective role and investigated him. (Don't confirm or deny this, please. We do NOT want the scum to know any roles.) Basically, any which way, you've created a situation that does not help the town by not giving more information on your thought processes by withholding your train of thought. We don't want WIFOM situations. (That is, situations that tell us nothing because the motivations could be one of two completely conflicting sides.) Does that make sense?
Here, have an example of something you missed, or ignored:
Second Deathsword: You also seem very quick to blame me for active lurking without checking your facts. Care to explain why?
Blitz: It would be helpful if you could post some of these facts rather than just telling us there are some.
In fact, I'd like you provided a reply to that. What are these "facts" I am not checking?
It would be nice if people told me what questions I haven't answered then.
It would be nice if you searched for them instead of just demanding that the question be delivered to you on a platter. As you can see above, yobbo claims I failed to answer a question and I searched for it. Now, I think he just missed my answer, but I did present the question I thought I missed and asked if that's it.
Scripten: So basically, you want me to put far more info in my posts. Okay, I'll try to do that.
And then you fail to do that in this very same post.
Second Scripten:Basically what anailater said. How would you suggest we deal with those players that are inactive?
First, stop parroting other players. Second, why don't you form your own opinions?
Deathsword: You've posted a lot less than many of us. While those posts have been asking questions, you haven't really been as active as you could be. Could you give your reads on the situation and of each of us? Why do you think Gulddom was stabbed and not one of us more active townies?
Most of it I've already addressed. Most read as null to me, but that is because I tend to focus on one or two players at a time until I feel sure they are scum or town, while keeping watch for any slips by others. yobbo feel suspicious to me, but I can't find anything scummy to his posts yet. Blitz feels like lazy scum. Or worse, lazy town.
Scripten: Well how do you suggest we deal with inactive members? Do we pm them, or do you threaten then with your vote/FoS?
{Don't PM other players. It's against the rules stated in the OP. If you want to call their attention, ask the GM to prod them.}
Deathsword: You were last online and active on other parts of the forum at about an hour ago. You haven't posted in four days despite the new day and having a quota of questions directed your way. I hate to be that guy, but dude, you're looking really scummy right now just on account of that, not to mention the strange dynamic between you and BlitzDungeoneer that's been evolving... Since everyone else has a post since the day's started, could you please hop on and give us, at the very least, some reads or possibly a rundown of where you feel the situation is?
Phone browsing is a wonderful and terrible thing. I fail to see a dynamic with Blitz other than calling him out on being horribly lazy and trying to get him to do real posts. Once again, the rest of your requests is above.
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