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sandnavyguy
Sep 12, 2015

CirclMastr posted:

My god, my brain told me that Tom Tucker posted and I should re-read since I got scum tone from them. Except they didn't, it was just SNG voting for Tom Tucker.

I need some sleep or something.

Get sleep and then vote for Tom, it’s a good choice and I’m surprised no one else has leaned on that.

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Bifauxnen
Aug 12, 2010

Curses! Foiled again!


sandnavyguy posted:

Get sleep and then vote for Tom, it’s a good choice and I’m surprised no one else has leaned on that.

Tom hasn't been around much, but when he was around earlier, he put in a solid effort. Is there something I missed that makes you want to pick him out from all the other lurkers who have had less content?

sandnavyguy
Sep 12, 2015

Bifauxnen posted:

Tom hasn't been around much, but when he was around earlier, he put in a solid effort. Is there something I missed that makes you want to pick him out from all the other lurkers who have had less content?

Yes. Like I said, it was the timing of his long post, which reads as town, followed by silence despite the tightening deadline, in tandem with the slow and content light day 1, I see that as a scum play. With most of the other lurkers, their posts aren’t as curated for maximum use if they were scum playing.

Bifauxnen
Aug 12, 2010

Curses! Foiled again!


sandnavyguy posted:

Yes. Like I said, it was the timing of his long post, which reads as town, followed by silence despite the tightening deadline, in tandem with the slow and content light day 1, I see that as a scum play. With most of the other lurkers, their posts aren’t as curated for maximum use if they were scum playing.

Hm, I disagree since it seemed to be a matter of availability. But I believe that you believe this, so

##unvote SNG

##vote Hal

Shellception
Oct 12, 2016

"I'm made up of the memories of my parents and my grandparents, all my ancestors. They're in the way I look, in the colour of my hair. And I'm made up of everyone I've ever met who's changed the way I think"

PlasticAutomaton posted:

I refuse to lunch Circl, the poor bastard hasn't made it past day 2 in his last 3 games laffo.

Alright, just in case I don't live to D2 ( I hope so, I'm having fun despite grumpyposts earlier).

Plas, who scum?

Hal Incandenza
Feb 12, 2004

Bifauxnen posted:

Hm, I disagree since it seemed to be a matter of availability. But I believe that you believe this, so

##unvote SNG

##vote Hal

Well that’s kinda weak, you never even answered my question

Hal Incandenza
Feb 12, 2004

People should vote caught scum Dex

Tom Tucker
Jul 19, 2003

I want to warn you fellers
And tell you one by one
What makes a gallows rope to swing
A woman and a gun

Sorry I haven't been around much - when I get busy I mostly have time to put in real effort in the early afternoons, same as yesterday.

Seeing my name coming up a bunch in lists as someone scummy without a ton of votes behind it. Doesn't bother me but SNG and B Minus's efforts around it totally do.

For B Minus - they voted for me with zero reason and are now just justifying it after the fact. The post saying SNG's vote is a "good vote" is such nonsense. B Minus has stuck their cart out and SNG is only perfectly happy to be the horse behind it.
For SNG the whole vote itself is bad, see below.

sandnavyguy posted:

Good morning! So, let me posit some things now that I’m on lunch~

Hal is posting like hal normally does on day 1, a little more actively than usual but I’ll chalk that up to and I don’t begrudge anyone for voting a lurker D1, beyond the usual grumbles that it’s a lazy vote. Especially given a solid half the player base would qualify.

Tommy is my vote today. Gave some strong reads, long posts, then disappeared. This isn’t a hypocritical lurker post, it’s that a power move with reads first, stir the pot for town cred and then no follow up is a good scum play on a D1 this slow.

##vote Tom Tucker

I come in and put more content and more reads into a single post than most people have done this game and SNG is knocking me for "disappearin" or "stirring the pot". Literally saying who you get town or scum reads on is the basis of the game and tons of other people are doing it but because they spread out their lesser reads across multiple posts (where they can get lost) it's fine, but I do mine all at once, thus drawing more attention to them and sparking more interaction, and it's "disappearing?" No, that's nonsense, and SNG's post is nonsense.

B minus has behaved totally arbitrarily and scummy with zero content and has made a vote on me, utterly unjustified (this isn't hyperbole the post was only a vote and the first time they had brought me up) and now that I "feel" like a valid alternative because others have put me in their "scum vibe" lists (with no reason I may add weird as hell - whenever I make a large post and mention someone I at least show em the respect of saying why I think they're scum or town but oh well) meaning they feel some vague momentum could be built there.

B minus and SNG both highly scum read, would prefer B Minus due to the zero content and backwards-justification of a vote once it became popular but would vote SNG as well due to somehow calling my scum hunting a "power move" to justify pushing onto a strong contender to distract from them.

Tom Tucker
Jul 19, 2003

I want to warn you fellers
And tell you one by one
What makes a gallows rope to swing
A woman and a gun

sandnavyguy posted:

Yes. Like I said, it was the timing of his long post, which reads as town, followed by silence despite the tightening deadline, in tandem with the slow and content light day 1, I see that as a scum play. With most of the other lurkers, their posts aren’t as curated for maximum use if they were scum playing.

Curious if you can elaborate on this. My posts are "curated for maximum use"? I don't understand what that means, and other players don't do this if they are scum?

Bifauxnen
Aug 12, 2010

Curses! Foiled again!


You mean this question?

Hal Insandenza posted:

What did I do to get on your list again? I don't even recall you really talking about me

I thought I explained it already but if you're hung up on needing the full Venn diagram, the "list of people I would vote" consists of:

Pool of all players
- townie list
- people I'd feel bad about voting out too soon at this moment (Circl, RF)

sandnavyguy
Sep 12, 2015

Tom Tucker posted:

Sorry I haven't been around much - when I get busy I mostly have time to put in real effort in the early afternoons, same as yesterday.

Seeing my name coming up a bunch in lists as someone scummy without a ton of votes behind it. Doesn't bother me but SNG and B Minus's efforts around it totally do.

For B Minus - they voted for me with zero reason and are now just justifying it after the fact. The post saying SNG's vote is a "good vote" is such nonsense. B Minus has stuck their cart out and SNG is only perfectly happy to be the horse behind it.
For SNG the whole vote itself is bad, see below.

I come in and put more content and more reads into a single post than most people have done this game and SNG is knocking me for "disappearin" or "stirring the pot". Literally saying who you get town or scum reads on is the basis of the game and tons of other people are doing it but because they spread out their lesser reads across multiple posts (where they can get lost) it's fine, but I do mine all at once, thus drawing more attention to them and sparking more interaction, and it's "disappearing?" No, that's nonsense, and SNG's post is nonsense.

B minus has behaved totally arbitrarily and scummy with zero content and has made a vote on me, utterly unjustified (this isn't hyperbole the post was only a vote and the first time they had brought me up) and now that I "feel" like a valid alternative because others have put me in their "scum vibe" lists (with no reason I may add weird as hell - whenever I make a large post and mention someone I at least show em the respect of saying why I think they're scum or town but oh well) meaning they feel some vague momentum could be built there.

B minus and SNG both highly scum read, would prefer B Minus due to the zero content and backwards-justification of a vote once it became popular but would vote SNG as well due to somehow calling my scum hunting a "power move" to justify pushing onto a strong contender to distract from them.

Yes, I knocked you for that. I feel it’s a valid read on a scum play. How is that nonsense? Even if you disagree that you are scum, it doesn’t make my read less valid. On a light D1, with little to hook on, and with a ton of lurking, a solid scum strat is to make a long post, choose a townie to vote, follow with a short post that you’re willing to move votes if needed, and then disappear. It’s the *pattern and timing* that I’m calling scummy, not the scumhunt itself. I can’t speak for B- or why they are voting you, but I’m standing by my read. You coming back directly after I vote you with reasoning how I highly likely must be scum but not voting me is telling as well.

sandnavyguy
Sep 12, 2015

Tom Tucker posted:

Curious if you can elaborate on this. My posts are "curated for maximum use"? I don't understand what that means, and other players don't do this if they are scum?

Walking to car will answer shortly!

Tom Tucker
Jul 19, 2003

I want to warn you fellers
And tell you one by one
What makes a gallows rope to swing
A woman and a gun

It's nonsense because you're knocking me for quantity rather than quality

Bifauxnen
Aug 12, 2010

Curses! Foiled again!


Ok nvm I take it back

##unvote Hal

##vote SNG

Sorry to Yami for the confessional spam

sandnavyguy
Sep 12, 2015

Tom Tucker posted:

Curious if you can elaborate on this. My posts are "curated for maximum use"? I don't understand what that means, and other players don't do this if they are scum?

I mean, if I’m looking at a slate of lurkers to try and scumhunt them D1, I’m going to compare their posting patterns with what I feel would be most advantageous to scum. Then, I will vote those with a more advantageous position first, all else being equal. It proves out on a number of these games, so I’m trying it this time myself.

sandnavyguy
Sep 12, 2015

Tom Tucker posted:

It's nonsense because you're knocking me for quantity rather than quality

Are you just not reading what I’m writing? I voted on the *pattern* not the quantity

sandnavyguy
Sep 12, 2015

Bifauxnen posted:

Ok nvm I take it back

##unvote Hal

##vote SNG

Sorry to Yami for the confessional spam

Okay, was it Tom that convinced you to switch back so quickly, or my argument? And if so, why? Because this seems sus.

Bifauxnen
Aug 12, 2010

Curses! Foiled again!


sandnavyguy posted:

I mean, if I’m looking at a slate of lurkers to try and scumhunt them D1, I’m going to compare their posting patterns with what I feel would be most advantageous to scum. Then, I will vote those with a more advantageous position first, all else being equal. It proves out on a number of these games, so I’m trying it this time myself.

I find it slightly hard to believe that much thought was really put into this. Unless all that thought was actually "how can I make this vote most sound believable, as scum"

Bifauxnen
Aug 12, 2010

Curses! Foiled again!


sandnavyguy posted:

Okay, was it Tom that convinced you to switch back so quickly, or my argument? And if so, why? Because this seems sus.

You, going on so much about it didn't feel as sincere as the first reply.

sandnavyguy
Sep 12, 2015

Bifauxnen posted:

I find it slightly hard to believe that much thought was really put into this. Unless all that thought was actually "how can I make this vote most sound believable, as scum"

Wait wait. You find it hard to believe that in a deduction game, I made deductions at put time into it? Bif that’s ridiculous, disingenuous and the scummiest post so far this thread.

##vote bif

But at least it’s finally a hook not reliant on pattern posting.

CirclMastr
Jul 4, 2010

Yeah I'm not buying this "pattern" argument from SNG

Bifauxnen
Aug 12, 2010

Curses! Foiled again!


sandnavyguy posted:

Wait wait. You find it hard to believe that in a deduction game, I made deductions at put time into it? Bif that’s ridiculous, disingenuous and the scummiest post so far this thread.

##vote bif

But at least it’s finally a hook not reliant on pattern posting.

Lmfao

sandnavyguy
Sep 12, 2015

That said, Tom is still, of the lurkers, the one with the most sus pattern.

Bifauxnen
Aug 12, 2010

Curses! Foiled again!


Anidav give SNG his account back

sandnavyguy
Sep 12, 2015

CirclMastr posted:

Yeah I'm not buying this "pattern" argument from SNG

Why?

Bifauxnen
Aug 12, 2010

Curses! Foiled again!


Scummiest post so far in the thread, wowza

Tom Tucker
Jul 19, 2003

I want to warn you fellers
And tell you one by one
What makes a gallows rope to swing
A woman and a gun

This "pattern" thing is nonsense dude you're saying posting fewer higher-content posts is scummier than more lower-content posts? That doesn't make sense I'd say the opposite is true - it's 100x easier to fly under the radar by making 30 zero-content posts than 1 high-content post.

For an example look at B minus!

sandnavyguy
Sep 12, 2015


Bif we’ve played how many games together? You *know* overthinking things is my MO.

Bifauxnen posted:

You, going on so much about it didn't feel as sincere as the first reply.

sandnavyguy
Sep 12, 2015

Tom Tucker posted:

This "pattern" thing is nonsense dude you're saying posting fewer higher-content posts is scummier than more lower-content posts? That doesn't make sense I'd say the opposite is true - it's 100x easier to fly under the radar by making 30 zero-content posts than 1 high-content post.

For an example look at B minus!

That’s not what I’m saying? At all?

Bifauxnen
Aug 12, 2010

Curses! Foiled again!


Yeah the more SNG overjustified it, the more it feels like he picked Tom purely so his lurker vote looks better for having more substance

Tom Tucker
Jul 19, 2003

I want to warn you fellers
And tell you one by one
What makes a gallows rope to swing
A woman and a gun

sandnavyguy posted:

That’s not what I’m saying? At all?

So it's the time I'm posting? That's just when I'm usually free during the day. That pattern?

sandnavyguy
Sep 12, 2015

Bifauxnen posted:

Yeah the more SNG overjustified it, the more it feels like he picked Tom purely so his lurker vote looks better for having more substance

I’m sorry, but yes? I don’t feel like making an unsubstantiated vote is a good policy as town? What is your point?

Bifauxnen
Aug 12, 2010

Curses! Foiled again!


sandnavyguy posted:

I’m sorry, but yes? I don’t feel like making an unsubstantiated vote is a good policy as town? What is your point?

It's an easy point, I now have an actual scum list and you're on it

sandnavyguy
Sep 12, 2015

Tom Tucker posted:

So it's the time I'm posting? That's just when I'm usually free during the day. That pattern?

No. It’s the “joke phase posts, then serious, long form post. Then a waffle would vote post, then radio silence”. It, of all the lurkers, makes most sense as scum. If you did 30 no content posts, or jokephase waffle then long post, or even long post then dip, those would all be other, less scum advantageous patterns. It’s a poor read compared to obvious hooks like disingenuous posting or active contradictions but on a D1 where the only real traction is meta posting, lurkers, or a strange shop thing that has yet to pan out, I’ll stand by it as a starter vote. Then Bif posted, I feel it’s a better vote, and I switched. Ta da.

b-minus1
Jul 24, 2008

She's a maniac, maniac
on the floor
And she's dancing like she's never danced before
I’m thinking hal and sng are town

Tobbs Gnawed
Apr 4, 2007

All round mafia nice guy
So if I'm understanding correctly, SNG's strongest scum read this game is Tom because he came in with some good long posts and thoughtful reads and then didn't post for a while.

He says nothing about the content, just makes a quick argument from a mechanics standpoint that is deeply flawed, and when called out on it sticks to his dumb idea and flails around with a Bif vote.

Flail more, scum.

##unvote Hal
##vote SNG

Would still vote Dex but am feeling better with Hal throwing out opinions that are a bit more solid.

sandnavyguy
Sep 12, 2015

Bifauxnen posted:

It's an easy point, I now have an actual scum list and you're on it

That’s not how that works as a point. The scum list, sure, but as a point “he’s playing the game and putting time into it” is not a strong point to use

CirclMastr
Jul 4, 2010

b-minus1 posted:

I’m thinking hal and sng are town

I would be more willing to think SNG is just a mistaken town if it weren't for the sudden swerve vote onto Bif

sandnavyguy
Sep 12, 2015

Tobbs Gnawed posted:

So if I'm understanding correctly, SNG's strongest scum read this game is Tom because he came in with some good long posts and thoughtful reads and then didn't post for a while.

He says nothing about the content, just makes a quick argument from a mechanics standpoint that is deeply flawed, and when called out on it sticks to his dumb idea and flails around with a Bif vote.

Flail more, scum.

##unvote Hal
##vote SNG

Would still vote Dex but am feeling better with Hal throwing out opinions that are a bit more solid.

No my strongest scum read is now Bif. It’s not a dumb idea, and I’ve not back tracked. Of the lurkers, Tom is the most advantageous to scum. Bif, in their response, is v scummy. Hence why my vote is on them?

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Bifauxnen
Aug 12, 2010

Curses! Foiled again!


Btw I think it's telling that SNG leaned on the "how many games have we played together, Bif" while also voting me D1. imo, someone who's played with me a bunch should want to leave me alive for a while since I reliably provide a lot of content!

Also, he should know I make a lot of wrong D1 calls and, even if he's town, not see that as a reason for me to be scummy lmao

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