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.
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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.
Deathsword (And Frostmoon): The dynamic I speak of is explained in some amount of detail the post you quoted. I get this feeling that BlitzDungeoneer is scum and, due to being new and a little unsure, is flailing around a lot. Notice how quickly he went from saying that he didn't think Deathsword was scummy to possibly voting for him? It's like he's not sure if he wants to protect or bus him, assuming Deathsword is mafia. So, really, it's not exactly what Deathsword is doing, since his actions are mostly null tells or slightly town, but what BlitzDungeoneer is doing with relation to him. That's not exactly fair, I know, but mafia isn't designed for us to be fair to one another.
What I hope is to be able to find some information out about Deathsword's alignment overnight, since I have a fairly good feeling that BlitzDungeoneer is our best lynching candidate due to posts like
this and the constant noncommittal/low-content answers.
For example, in his last post, look at the content with the quotes stripped out. I've also gone through and struck through repeated information as well as affirmations of answers to his questions:
Hmm...
That's what I assumed Scripten was accusing you of, which seemed accurate at the time of the post, what with the 'not posting in 4 days despite being online 1 hour ago'. You were using a moblie, then? Explains somewhat, but I'm able to use a mobile just fine with quotes. Most of the time. iPods and large quotes don't mix very well, particularly when I have to delete bits of the post.
Does someone mind explaining the difference between active lurking and just lurking, by the way? I'm slightly confused, since they seem interchangeable most of the time from what I've seen in both this agme and the One-day Mafia I was in, but with this post I'm not so sure.
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I mentiond this earlier, and you have too, but... touchscreens and quotes don't mix very well.
Losing town on the first day is normal? That's good to know, thanks.
Yes a generic question from a complete noob. What are the odds? But yeah, it was generic, and nobody asked it at the time, so I felt it should be asked.
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Checking if I'm even online. There's one fact. Checking if I posted at all during that time. That's another.
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Okay, I'll try to at least search them up.
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Yep, so much info I can put in a fairly simple question. I mean, there's so much more that I could have put in those questions. Or is there? If there is, I just don't see it.
As for the parroting; I thought it was a valid question.
Opinions on what? There is nothing for me to form an opinion on so far. Probably.
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Something we can agree on; Phone Browsing.
So we're still looking at a post with very little to go on, which is the definition of active lurking. Anyway, I'm going to go ahead and tackle the bits of this that haven't been looked at yet. Frostmoon explained the difference between lurking and active lurking quite well in her post. Another scummy tactic I've noticed is padding posts with repeat information, either from your own or others' posts. Fluffing up an "Okay" is just as bad as posting a single word response. See how much of BlitzDungeoneer's post was fluff?
At this point, BlitzDungeoneer, you should be able to put content into your posts. Do you see how almost everyone else's questions are pointed, directing at someone else with the intent of clarifying what they said or getting more out of them? There's a few generic questions out there, but other than strategy/rules clarifications like the active lurking/lurking bit and asking others to essentially play the game for you (I'll get into that below), that's the only question in your post. We're not all completely new to the game here, but we ARE all still beginners.
So, what I'm seeing a lot of is you asking others to find questions for you to answer and ask, and also to tell you what your opinions should be. We want you to be examining posts and forming logical conclusions that you then give us and then, from those conclusions, we expect you to formulate questions to get information. You've given very little to us in terms of reasoning or conclusions. There's a few, but we're greedy for content, and telling us that you're just bad at reading intentions doesn't really do much for the town. Do you understand how that makes you appear to be, at worst, scum, and at best, a liability?
Frostmoon: First of all, apologies for not looking up your gender. My bad, there. As far as Illgeo goes, he is fairly scummy, but it's hard to tell with the way that BlitzDungeoneer is playing. If he [Blitz], is town, then my first target would be Illgeo, since a lot of my suspicion for Deathsword is from the way BlitzDungeoneer is acting toward him. You are right that Deathsword's most recent post does change my opinion a bit, but I am definitely keeping my FoS on him. As for Gulddom, his flip gave next to no information to me. I thought he was most likely town to begin with and I will admit that choosing him left very little trace back to scum.
Yobbo: Bandwagoning is a fairly scummy tactic. It often indicates that a player is trying to avoid being suspicious by starting a bandwagon on a town player while still letting them get a vote in one someone they know not to be scum. In that case, though, I feel like Nerjin may have been frustrated.