Hmmm, it's either that elephant parade and Vector are playing us and they are both mafia, or one of them is mafia.
Isn't super-early D1 a bit early for certainty?
Certainty is the only thing that concerns you here? Scumbucket?
Yes. Using absolute language so early seemed really, really weird to me, so I pointed it out.
As for "trying to vote scum": I don't have psychic powers, sorry.
[a little while later...]
I was expecting an actual question—one relating to your suspicions—rather than an RVS question.
This one was my fault: I misinterpreted your post as "try to vote people you KNOW are scum", rather than "try to find scum", or "try to ask better questions", or whatever you meant. At the same time, you could have put the emphasis on hunting, rather than voting—which is what I did in that second post.
a. Activelurking
b. Muddying the waters
c. Shitposting, or
d. Hypocrisy?
It's true that I've spent a lot of time doing that stuff, but I've *also* done as much actual scumhunting as everyone else. So, yes, the signal-to-noise ratio is high, but I would say that that's because there's more noise, not less signal. To demonstrate:
Vector, your vote is still on snow dorf; they committed OMGUS, yes, but it was in their first-ever Mafia post, and their subsequent posts showed that they didn't yet have any idea how to play the game. It's been a day and a half; shouldn't you be using that vote to pressure someone else?
This is a legitimate attack. It turned out that you were actually just busy, but it *could* have been a mafioso keeping their vote on someone for a relatively lazy reason. The second half isn't phrased like an attack, but it could have been.
Vector, your vote is still on snow dorf; they committed OMGUS, yes, but it was in their first-ever Mafia post, and their subsequent posts showed that they didn't yet have any idea how to play the game. A real townie would be using that vote to pressure someone else.
Hmmm, it's either that elephant parade and Vector are playing us and they are both mafia, or one of them is mafia.
Isn't super-early D1 a bit early for certainty?
This is similar to the above post: If I had thrown in a vote/FoS and "GOLLY GEE THIS SURE SEEMS SUSPICIOUS HUH", this would have been a full-fledged attack.
Replacement requested sorry I've been sick since Tuesday and don't have as much time as I thought I would.
Well, alright. I'll unvote you and focus on someone else until your replacement arrives.
TinFoilTopHat, we haven't seen anything out of you, yet. Are you too busy plotting with your scumbuddy to post with the rest of us Townies?
You're not really one to talk—all you've done is bug lurkers. While you're waiting on Tinfoil to post, you should be pursuing some other avenue, rather than sitting around doing nothing.
Again, it's not phrased like an attack, but it *is* an attack, in a way. The very next post was Gentlefish voting doomchild for this exact reason.
(By the way, you put this post in both your second and third categories.)
With some of these, I was reluctant to remove an earlier pressure vote just to pressure someone else; in retrospect, I should have prioritized my vote better. Also, I've been phrasing a lot of stuff really gently—less as attacks, and more as "hey, you probably shouldn't do this".
Vector-as-IC: Do you think that stuff should be phrased harshly from the very start, to provoke reactions?
Are you being constructive right now?
Yes. What if I *hadn't* told snow dorf what he was doing wrong? Until you came back, he would have had absolutely no idea what he was doing, and we might have ended up with what would probably (7/9) have been a mislynch. My memory of my really early games is hazy, but I recall lurkers getting mislynched, so it *is* a good idea to try to get people to be active.
And second, tell me: who's scum, and why do you think that?
I'm not really sure. Before, I was kind of focused on you, since I thought your refusal to unvote snow dorf was weird, but then it turned out you were busy.
ATH has been very quiet, and it sounds like they generally aren't that way? They said why, but they're getting into pretty heavy activelurking—zero questions asked, including RVS—so I'm going to place my imaginary final vote on them, for now.