Tawarochir:
1 - The thought never really occured to me, I suppose.
2 - "Self-preservation is a scumtell"? In your own words, explain why. thanks for the advice by the way
3 - I forgot how quickly the day would end.
1 - What thought never really occurred to you? That you should participate in the game at hand?
2 - Generally speaking, scum are outnumbered. It is a greater loss to scum to lose a member than it is for the town to lose a member. Therefore scum are much more careful about not dying. Whereas town can (in a manner of speaking) afford to lose a few members if that would help identify the scum. Ergo, town members can (and should) be aggressive in the hopes of making scum slip up and reveal themselves. [
Advice is what I'm here for.]
3 - Okay, that's dumb, but not scummy. [
Please keep deadlines in mind in the future. You won't see it in beginner's games (likely), but in other games end-of-day shenanigans can be a thing.]
That has nothing to do with what I said. McCoder outright denied that lurking is a scumtell, even though lurking is consistently seen to be a tell, and I'm asking why I shouldn't think that he's not trying to throw suspicion off by denying that it's a tell in the first place.
So now I have a question for you.
Why were you defending McCoder?
Okay,
technically that link should have been in my IC Voice, but let's roll with it anyway.
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Also, technically, you are correct. I did kind of not exactly read carefully there. My bad. But that aside, it's still a good point to know about.]
So, fair enough, I didn't quite parse what you were saying. And, arguably, you both are right. Lurking is consistently seen to be a scumtell. Or at least a you're-not-exactly-helping tell. I would say that McCoder is not exactly using the best meaning of "lurking". Because, as he said:
I just think that lurking has a good chance of being caused by stuff like, schedule, bad internet, having other obligations. so I am not quick to say he is lurking lynch him.
I would say that if you're not posting often because of schedule, bad internet, or other obligations, that's more of an "excused absence" sort of thing. We know Real Life happens. These games run a long time and schedule conflicts are inevitable. You let everyone know that a tsunami is heading toward your island, we expect to not see you for a while, the game goes on. Is that lurking? Teeeechnically. But I think we tend to more generally associate "lurking" with "you don't have a damn good reason for not posting".
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And it is very, very not cool to "lurk" and make up a legitimate reason to explain away said lurking. Poor sportsmanship.]
So, you're asking me why am I defending McCoder? I would say that my goal wasn't to defend McCoder. My goal was to point out an argument that I thought was flawed. Which, I kind of did. Just not how I intended to originally.