Dak, web's was pretty damn long as well.
Mostly because he quoted me, but I get the point
Soli... I'm likely to be wrong, but Soli hasn't defended very well-he/she reminds me of myself back when I was a rookie. Probably doesn't know how to defend. But looking at the quote in web's wall, there is a bit of failure in there... No townie blames another townie for their mistakes. I think. ...I am making sense, right?
1. Day 1 no worries if you are wrong: there's little information at the moment. However, by making attacks like that you'll do exactly what is truly needed: drawing people out, making them speak out more, and gathering the information that will be useful later on.
2. When I say "you need ot get out there and attack" yes.. THAT quoted is what I'm talking about. If there's any blahness about it, it's the worry. you CAN worry in your head about things, but you leave out the worry when you write. In your head, you say "Well, that guy is passive, but I don't know.".. in text you write. "That's passive, you lousy scum!"
Thus, you can reword your writing slightly to get that effect like this:
"Soli hasn't defended very well-he/she reminds me of myself back when I was a rookie. Probably doesn't know how to defend. But looking at the quote in web's wall, there is a bit of failure in there... No townie blames another townie for their mistakes."
Boom.. without the "oh I don't know" at the beginning and ending, you go from a very passive (and weak) post to a pretty decent attack. Normally, you'd also put a vote in but if you dislike adding to the bandwagon until you're more sure then a Blue-colored FOS will do.
From here you keep pushing. Keep attacking until you can say one of three things:
"Ok, that makes sense. yah, I can't see them as scum after that."
or
"I still don't like them, but they answered the argument, and I don't have anything else to add."
or
"OMG! They really ARE scum!"
The first means it's time to pull back and go after someone else. If the second, put them on standby.. leave them alone but watch them as they post against other people and go to them later. If the third.. do WHATEVER IT TAKES to see them DEAD!
And that, is scumhunting.