It also seems like you're redirecting us to lurkers, and away from the guy who's currently on the stage (i.e. USEC_OFFICER).
I asked USEC_OFFICER my questions, and my vote still rests on him.
I'm curious about this 'stage' though... I wasn't aware there was there was a stage we should all be concentrating on. I've been persuing my own investigations. You seem unhappy that attention is being turned away from USEC_OFFICER.
Back when USEC_OFFICER had votes piled on him and was actively complaining about how he was about to be lynched, you seemed to be more concerned about lurkers than the guy in the middle.
Redirection to lurkers when an undesired lynch is about to happen is a common scum tactic--especially if "the guy in the middle" hasn't been properly screened and questioned by the folks voting him. Townie lurker-lynches are basically free lynches for the scum, because they don't have to work at them much. Furthermore, anyone who has already been up for lynchery without definitively proving him town via reaction testing is much easier to slide back into the middle, which is good for scum in the end-game. In my opinion the proper protocol is to call out and threaten the lurkers, but not suddenly slide a mountain of votes onto them unless they've been lurking egregiously (i.e. through the second game day or so, especially in a newbie game). Things tend to work better if townies systematically test the reactions of one individual at a time after attempting to provoke reactions en masse during the RVS.
You, sir, are sidelining. I also feel like you're sitting here manipulating the crowd (as in your "what do you think about Vector? Isn't she just the scummiest?!" post).
Are you mad that I accused you of being scummy?
Nope. I think that you're sidelining and crowd-directing, as noted above.
vector: a while back, you were asked which people you felt posed most of a threat as scum. a simple question that could have been given a simple answer - maybe whoever you felt were the two or three most dangerous and some basic reasons why - but you took the opportunity to post a fully-blown analysis of everyone in the game. why so?
Because they asked me a question, and that is the only way that I am capable of answering that question. When there is no available data, you must retrieve data--so I did. It is also necessary to explain reasoning and cite sources. You cannot find the "largest threat" if you have not evaluated the threat level of each individual, and made a solid attempt at analyzing the known body of information.
I love information: retrieving it, classifying it, redigesting it for common use. To be sure, I could have just chewed up the data for myself and given out a simple answer, but that would be withholding what I knew to no good end. In this game, the written trail of the past provides rails for the future. An individual must leave a legacy.
... Or, for a different sort of answer, less full of intellectual wankery, it was an attempt to provoke reactions. I told each player what I thought of him or her at the beginning of the game (do correct me if I'm wrong about your gender, by the way). The result is that a lot of people are calling me scum because I called them naive or difficult to teach, which... well, though amusing, it wasn't the intended result. If only a couple were getting angry/scared/defensive/whatever, I'd have some leads (scum tend to be far more emotionally labile than town). As-is, though, I have to start testing more reactions and so on.
Vector: Since you specifically called lurkers "scumbuckets", that makes 5 players you just called scummy. You're awfully eager to spread suspicion around. I'm all in favor of following multiple leads, but you look like you're just casting doubt. Do you really think the three you called inactive are that scummy?
They're engaging in scummy behavior, yeah, and if they don't shape up then the late game is going to be really hard to sort through. Meh. When people are doing something "wrong," I dog them until they do it right. In this case, there's a lot of people doing things wrong, and I really wish they would stop so I could sort things out.
Vector is making gargantuan posts that are dripping with scummy things.
[citation needed]. What's scummy about making large posts, and what about their contents do you find problematic?
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