1. I never said anything about ignoring lurkers. I said that there are better ways to spend your time. Do you have a response to that?
Yes, you did. You said:
"If you're completely convinced that all the active players are town, then I can see going after lurkers."[1] If you're town (and in a BYOR, even if you're not), you're never completely convinced the active players are town, therefore, you should ignore lurkers. I'm not making this shit up, this is what you said.
You're dancing around the topic - do you think it's a better investment of your time to go after lurkers (and, as you say, lurker defenders), or scumhunting?
They are equally good.
That's my point. You need to do both. If you forget the hunting to go for lurkers you're just as misguided as forgetting the lurkers to go hunting.
Both need to happen. Your statement that lurkers can be left
"until later" is giving them a free pass; telling town to go hunt for scum while ignoring the lurkers (unless you're
completely convinced everyone is town), is you telling people to ignore scum using lurking as a strategy.
2. I'm not even defending lurking!
Yes, you are. Or how do you read this:
"Lurking isn't great as town, but I also don't see anything inherently scummy about it at all."[2] Isn't that saying that lurking is essentially OK?
3. So you're saying that anything scum can do to win is scummy? By your own reasoning, playing frequently and skillfully is an obvious scum tactic.
No, I'm not, and
your strawman is your problem. I speak only of your earlier statements, never invoke "anything they can do", "playing frequently" or any other made up bullshit you want to bring up.
4. You don't really get it at all. You're interested in your life, right? Well, maybe you should have participated in your own birth.
You utterly lost me here.
RVS is a joke, and there's no reason to be a part of it; people are going to throw votes around and ask inane questions whether or not I'm there. And, if you actually knew where my statement about RVS came from, you might change your tune. I originally stated that I would be there, and if a question was asked of me I would answer it. And it's also been shown that as soon as the game gets rolling, I'm ready to go.
In your own words, RVS is over, and we're full-throttle scumhunting. Your refusal to participate in RVS is scummy on its own, but even scummier is your saying that lurking is OK (yes, you did, see above). You a) actively refused to consider a cultist faction until called up on it; b) think town lurking is not scummy; c) think RVS is useless, even if it brought up the first interesting conversation of the game; and d) have failed to do anything useful for town whatsoever. You are scum. If pressed for details, I'd guess of the
cultist kind.
I also find it rather interesting that you're talking about targeting lurkers...yet you and I have the most posts thus far. Oh, the delicious irony. While I have you, what are your other suspicions on people? Or is it just me?
We've never been talking about "targeting" lurkers. That's one more time you putting words in other people's mouths. I've talked about how scummy are those who think lurking is not scummy, and allow scum the tactic of lurking. Like, say, you. You're not lurking, and I never said you were (in fact, I pointed out earlier you weren't). The problem is your saying that it's OK, and that we shouldn't care; that we shoud just let them lurk, we'll catch them
later... Those are the words of a scum screening for their non-present scumbuddies. I will post a lurkertracker soon, and by process of elimination find out who it is you are screening for.