On that note, can we please talk about
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Self
and how it is literally the worst possible thing (besides outright claiming to be scum I guess but that would never happen).
A town player has absolutely no motivation to vote for themselves, and scum only have the motivation of doing it to try and look like they don't care, which is still a terrible way to do it. It is in effect a perfect scumtell, seeing as how the only possible benefit for the player would be if they were scum trying to make themselves look pitiable or actually not concerned for their own survival.
Voting yourself is a terrible idea but its not a scumtell. Voting yourself is not playing to win and neither scum nor town benefit in any way from a self vote. I've rarely ever seen a scum player vote themselves before, and it is more common that it occurs in new players who are stressed out with the game.
Similarly, these posts are what made me the most annoyed in the game:
That says scum.
Note in the first post, one of the rules is "play to win". I hope that doesn't count as quoting the mod, but I don't thank it should. That defense is- that isn't a defense.
You could have logiced it out, tried to actually fight for your survival. Instead... you just gave up. That, plus a double dose of passiveness, marks you as scum. This makes me want to keep my vote on you even more.
This is likely your last chance to logically explain why you are not scum instead of being passive noobscum. Please, explain thoroughly, or suffer the consequences.
That isn't a defence. A defence would look at your actions before now and your motives doing them to show that it's things that it wouldn't make sense for scum to do.
Then again, that might be hard for you since a good portion of your posts so far have been bordering on shitposting, or at the very least of no real substance in terms of trying to root out the match fixers. Instead you just kind of weakly recycle arguments like you want to stay out of it. You're doing that right now, even. I don't know if you thought that giving up would make people think you're town, but it won't.
Ninjad: And this ended up being pretty much what Fallacy said.
Giving up when facing a lynch is not a scumtell, its an inevitable response to an untenable situation. Could he have gone out better, yes. But his giving up and claiming his role is not a scumtell.
To quote my scumchat post: "Wow, Graknorke and Fallacy are not being nice to hiddenleafguy about his last posts. Seriously, its obvious that leaf is on a phone and can't make long posts, doesn't take the game as seriously as the others think he should, failed to defend himself, and is making newbie mistakes. None of these mean he's scum."
Things to be more mindful of was McCoder's preoccupation with his towniness and bandwagoning on other players D1, as well as Doctor McTallk's post with good reads, but failing to actually vote anyone.