Silanah, on 19 July 2012 - 03:43 PM, said:
Ampelas, on 19 July 2012 - 03:13 PM, said:
I won't bore you to tears with a dozen or more posts of dkt-style catch up, but my main thoughts from reading up are:
-everybody throwing in a phrase of "right now my picks for scum are [insert 4 people]" without having made any actual cases on more than one of them is just water-muddying and generally should not be done. So many people have done it it just leads to confusion as everyone is apparently scummy to someone. If you have a few people you think are scummy, don't list them and do nothing else. That's just a tip off to them. Watch them, and build a real case on them, or stay quiet and watch some more until you can build a real case on them.
-I still stand by my argument on day that lynching was unnecessary - as it turned out we got the same info of people last-minute vote-switching even though the lynch didn't happen, and given Kalse getting modkilled I'm glad to have only been down 2 town dusk/night 1, and not 3. Depending on if and when we lynch one of the killers, that extra townie might push d-day back a day. People have disagreed, and that's fine, I never expected everyone to feel the same way.
-OTOH, day 2 is not day 1 and I'm very glad we got a lynch day 2. Anthras being inno (or symp) doesn't surprise me, but I still think we're better off without him as his hyperactive changing of ideas and self-contradicting, in addition to his spam, was so much of a distraction that I feel it would have hampered our ability to play the game as long as he remained.
-Not too inspired by the current cases. There's a few people I'm going to take a deeper look at, so I hope to be able to post a good case later today.
So basically you're saying, if you don't have an argument that I'm okay with, you should just shut up. That works real well in a game that's text based. Yours and Korbas' lack of much real input is annoying, and doesn't help town in the least. But you're not town, are you? So why would you care, right? And the fact that you can stand there and defend your 'no lynch is acceptable' with 'well Kalse was gonna be modkilled, so it's okay' is just crap. Come on now, presumably, town's only power is the lynch. A no lynch is never acceptable. A 1/7 chance of hitting scum is better than a 0/7 chance, not to mention the information (even if it's not terribly reliable information) gathered from a lynch is ALWAYS useful.
You admit to not being surprised that Anthras CF'd inno, and that you're still okay with having gotten rid of him. Pretty scummy if you ask me. Spam posting is annoying, but so is willful ignorance of the way the game should be played.
I'm not saying that at all. I'm saying that rather than constantly bandy about every little thought without substance, it is better to focus solely on saying things that have any merit. Whether I or anyone agrees is not important. But if I randomly toss into this post that right now I think Karosis, Korbas and Atrahal are the scummiest, does that really contribute anything? It's just extra thoughts being tossed into the air with no usefulness attached.
I don't mean to sound like an old fart, but there was a time when town did not vomit every little thought onto the thread, and we were a hell of a lot better at finding scum because everything was so much more concise and easy to communicate. There'd be discussions about the game, there'd be cases, and they'd be easily encapsulated. Right now, I feel like there are 20 miniscule, intangible cases that all amount to nothing. I would much rather have 3 solid, structured cases that everybody can agree or disagree with easily.
We will not catch scum with a bunch of little touchy feely statements.