This doesn't make sense as a response to the question I asked.
It does to me. If you want to get meta, look at the last round, not that that should have any bearing.
Why suggest something then immediately say that something will be pointless? I don't want meta, I want(ed) a direct answer to my question.
1) Expanded version: It does makes sense to me, and until I see a reason to.
2) To draw a line under it (I thought), I give you an example to refer to without suggesting or (especially) demanding you believe it.
Then why did you imply you were worried you'd come across as "opportunistically flash-claiming", so you tried to set-up a breadcrumb trail to another "claim" even earlier than now?
I saw a subtle thing I could relate to. I am content. I create a subtle response to indicate my membership of the same group, but am ninjaed. I look at the situation from the outside and decide that now I will look like I am jumping on the bandwagon. (Later on, I worry that Fish is doing just that.) I am concerned. I thus do not post.
I change tack. I take some time to consider what useful information I can give. Nothing right now, but I can prepare for the future, maybe. That's what I do. I am content. It seems you are not. I consider that as more your problem than it is mine.
I also announced the breadcrumb partly so that the I could not be accused of speculatively false-breadcrumbing in secret and only revealing if it became something still claimable.
Here as well.
Simple paranoia-by-proxy. I want you to know I'm not (for example) in evil possession of the name "Rose", hiding a false message like "I am the Daffodil", but then when it turns out the game is colours, not flowers, I quietly drop it, while wishing I had encoded "Teal" instead.
Consider that a contrived example, just to demonstrate what I thought I had already made obvious. I thought you'd think the same about what I thought you'd think about what I was thinking as I thought you'd be thinking about my thoughts, to put it simply.
What am I supposed to say about myself? You refuse to ask questions.
I've had no firm questions other than "Do you have question marks in your role?", and you already said "How likely do you think my answer is going to be "no"?", which isn't far from what I thought you'd say.
I already said that I was getting slowly bored of just our two voices, though.
I don't even.
I agree, but I'm waiting for someone like you to say something sensible.