hey I forgot to bold but plz read the above post 4mask/Dark Star/Dorsidwaf. also can someone tell me why talking about nightkills is bad?? third time I've asked
I think the reason why people aren't meant to mull over the nightkill D1 is that it leads to WIFOM.
"The scum would kill the more active player! X is scum!"
"No! They'd want us to think that, it's clearly a trick!"
"How can you tell that! Are you scum?"
"Baseless accusation! You're trying to push an agenda! Scum!"
and so forth.
Nightkills are information. If nightkill discussion is completely off the table, this seems beneficial to scum as they have zero motivation to do suboptimal kills for WIFOM purposes, and reading into a nightkill clearly should be part of a case on a player and not a case in and of itself! But okay I guess?
Also, to follow up on why I'm not convinced by the quote walls and wars re:roo, I'm not making the connection between erratic and scummy. Trying to get a day extension early seems pro-town given how frustratingly lackluster the end of Yesterday was, and it in no way doesn't make sense to me. A better argument would be to say that it's trying to look town by pushing it that early and seems contrived, but given the push-back from players (including the living IC) about the deadline extension, I'm not understanding why that is more likely to be done by scum than town at all. This is why I was so baffled by the sudden 2 roo votes after that, and posted as such.
I guess I would appreciate if you would try to explain why, for instance, it is
scummy to have both acknowledged that people tend not to be paranoid enough, and still pick a person to townread? I don't deny that it's erratic, but I think scum have more investment in presenting a consistent self-narrative. And even though roo's posts are erratic, sure, a lot of it seems emotionally consistent to me - being cynical towards the site meta after the incident Persus13 was inquiring about/apparently being a common mislynch target, and then as the game continues to be a frustrating lurkfest, making decisions that appear erratic on the basis of 'it feeling like the right thing to do' in the ongoing shitfest. I don't see the scum motivation for choosing to vote Playergamer over you, for instance, unless roo is OSG's scumbuddy or something? I need to know why it
matters that roo is erratic beyond the fact that it's annoying you.