IronyOwl, I'll grant you that Max White has been very odd this game, but tons of scumhunting isn't really something anybody has a definitive claim to so far. Why are you holding Max White accountable for it?
Most people have been waffling around a bit, or poking at flavor while poking less at scumhunting. Max is being very active and focused, but it's in a mostly useless series of directions. If most people are lurking, he's activelurking.
Max, you've done zero scumhunting but are going to town with wild theories based on flavor. Do you really think who's scum has been written into the opening posts and whatever role PMs they choose to share like that?
Now I have to point out a distinction here. I haven't been going off flavour as in 'Oh look, the victim has a stab wound in he's right side, and X said they were left handed, so it was them!', but rather I have shown a reason that a scum player would lie about their flavour (Because if they just told us all they were a witch they would be lynched) and pointed out that Urist was the most likely to have lied about he's flavour.
Do you see the difference?
You've pointed out that, assuming role PMs work like you've assumed they do, Urist is the closest match among people who responded at all. That's not as specific as something about books or what have you, but it shares a vital assumption, a sort of "must be one of them" approach, and a lack of any real way to go any further with it.
I mean, look at what you're doing with him now. Are you voting to pressure him, or lynch him? If it's pressure, pressure for what? What's he going to say that means he isn't scum anymore? If it's to lynch him, you'll be doing so solely because his role PM claim was too short. That doesn't seem incredibly weak to you?
Here's a question: Why does it matter? Unless we're swimming in cops also, I really don't see this being a big enough deal to focus a lot of time and energy on.
Why wouldn't it matter? Until we have some more to go off, everything matters.
For one thing, we're not talking about some offhand comment or idle speculation- this has been a major, major point of interest to you, including thinking way ahead to when we've got a lot of bodies to examine for it.
Secondly, your approach, as I've mentioned, does not seem conducive to getting more to go off.
And here. You're claiming to be encouraging everyone to play, but not doing it yourself. Why is that? You're not even throwing up a crackpot theory with it, you're just spouting pro-town jargon.
I would like for people to be a little more active, yourself included. No really, do you think you have done enough to say anybody else isn't playing? Hell, Panda has had a greater impact on the game so far! This wasn't just standard 'Go team!' dribble, this was 'Get your ass into gear and do something!'
I wouldn't really call getting attention for lurking but not dying "a greater impact," or at least not in a way I'm supposed to be ashamed of. Yes, I've been lurky, but I've been trying to do stuff while I have been here- a lot of more frequent posters, yourself included, haven't been much more productive for it.
On that note, it doesn't matter what flavor the dribble was supposed to be, because it still wasn't led by example. Unless you meant "Everyone get off your asses and make wild speculation!"
Sorry, nope. The game is about flavour, and I used that for finding scum.
*Sigh*
Do you think you succeeded?
That makes four, so that must mean at least one townie is voting for me, assuming there are three scum. Why do I get the feeling I'm up for lynch today?
Prior to that, what did you think the odds were that all three of your voters were scum?
It isn't about how much somebody gives or doesn't give, it is about how much somebody will chance their stance to try and fit into the town.
If this is the real reason, why is this the first time it's been mentioned?