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The Bear

Forest Animal
Moderator
Oct 25, 2017
4,202
okay i am going to put down my town list.

Town
14. [m] Nin UTC+2

Potential Scum

01. [m] Stuart444 - NEW UTC+1 - Mentored by [m] Ty4on
02. [f] KetKat - NEW UTC-4 - Mentored by [m] Hecht
04. [f] Sophia
05. [m] Grizzly UTC+2
06. [m] Fandorin UTC-3
07. [m] Xbro UTC-6
08. [m] Apollo
09. [f] SweetNicole UTC-5
10. [f] empressdonna UTC+1
12. [m] Brazil UTC-3
13. [m] DCPat
15. [m] Kyanrute UTC+2
16. [m] Zippedpinhead UTC-6
17. [m] Kalor UTC+1
18. [m] Geno UTC+3

Do you have like.. top 3 for potential scum? Because this list is right now just whole bunch of nothing :P.
 

Stuart444

Member
Oct 25, 2017
9,073
I'm going to make a very narcissistic observation right now.

This is the first time you've mentioned my name or acknowledged me in any way throughout this entire game. You haven't quoted me or talked about me to other players.
This is actually something I've been paying attention to since halfway through D1.

Now that I've voted against you without giving out any real reasoning for it, you mention my name for the first time by putting me in your town-read list.

Honestly. I've had nothing much to say to you at all. Every post from you so far have felt towny up until you're recent vote for me. But considering the recent posts about me and my prodding votes, I just took the assumption that you voted for me because of suspicion over my votes today (As someone else said, for 3 different people today even if they were just prodding votes).

So despite your vote for me, I still read you as town as none of your posts have seemed that scummy to me.
 

SweetNicole

The Old Guard
Member
Oct 24, 2017
6,542
I've said yesterday that Stuart was reading scum to me after their OMGUS reaction to my vote and pressure applied their way, and their actions today haven't really done a lot to reassure me. It feels a lot like a new scum player realizing "oh the way to be active and to get others to think you are town is just early prod voting!" I realize this is a bit of an exaggeration, but if you look at their contributions today it's:
  • some unquoted mechanic discussion
  • quoted prod votes
There's no elaboration, no follow up, no challenging those people that they vote for. They vote, the person replies, and then they immediately unvote or vote for someone else. It feels to me like they're scared to challenge and trying to stay under the radar while still appearing active/contributing.

I think I'm going to do a Poke vote

Vote: Sophia

What are your thoughts on all this?

Nin has been very quiet as well, both at the end of the last day with no Vote and at the start of today.

Vote: Nin

Why didn't you vote? What are your thoughts so far?

Unvote

You didn't really explain why you weren't around, just that you weren't but since you've returned, I'll take my vote off you for now. It might return later on though.

Xbro

You haven't said much at all today. What are your reads today? Come out of hiding and tell us :)

Unvote

I'm leaning town now with Xbros recent posts. Will probably give a full list tomorrow but right now, town wise

Town:

Brazil
Grizzly
Sweetnicole

Leaning Town:

Xbros
Ketkat
Fandorin

Everyone else, I'm unsure on. Will wait and see how things progress and maybe do a reread later or tomorrow.
 

The Bear

Forest Animal
Moderator
Oct 25, 2017
4,202
There's no elaboration, no follow up, no challenging those people that they vote for. They vote, the person replies, and then they immediately unvote or vote for someone else. It feels to me like they're scared to challenge and trying to stay under the radar while still appearing active/contributing.

This has been my main problem with Stuart today. He has jumped from vote to vote, and the moment that vote is challenged even a little, they unvote. It's like he is scared to step on anyone's toes.
 

Stuart444

Member
Oct 25, 2017
9,073
Vote without really any real pressuring.

This is no real defense for my actions but I admit, as a person irl and online, I'm not confident and don't tend to pressure anyone nor am I a fan of it.

So I suppose you could say, I'm trying to learn and get better with stuff like that.

Yes, I realize again, it's no defense for the way I've posted so far in this game but it's the way I am normally. So I guess again, I understand where you guys are coming from in respect to me being scared to challenge or pressure people.
 

SweetNicole

The Old Guard
Member
Oct 24, 2017
6,542
This has been my main problem with Stuart today. He has jumped from vote to vote, and the moment that vote is challenged even a little, they unvote. It's like he is scared to step on anyone's toes.

The bolded really emphasizes what I was trying to get across in my post in a much more concise way.

You could say it's just new player jitters, but I don't think that's a good excuse for not considering him for a lynch today.
 

The Bear

Forest Animal
Moderator
Oct 25, 2017
4,202
The bolded really emphasizes what I was trying to get across in my post in a much more concise way.

You could say it's just new player jitters, but I don't think that's a good excuse for not considering him for a lynch today.

In general I usually see scum do these days:

1. They are scared to post, but they read the thread intensely
2. They are scared to really challenge anyone.

Stuart definitely fits the second part, at least.
 

nin

Asked Politely
Avenger
Oct 26, 2017
7,159
So in otherwords, you don't have any strong reads?

I do . let me rephrase

01. [m] Stuart444 Lazy player, has been coasting and even his votes did not even have weight on it since he pretty much always unvoted when someone he voted on posted.

02. [f] KetKat has a presence in the game i am still unsure where to put her but atm i am liking it.

04. [f] Sophia Usually she is a lot more present, i know she has been posting throughout the game but it still feels like she is coasting. Not feeling her at all atm

05. [m] Grizzly UTC+2 Day 1 he left a better impression on me than today. But this has more to do with how much he resonated with me on D1 and now he is just laying on his berrys. I want to see your claws.

06. [m] Fandorin UTC-3 He is at least active is not shying away of putting down some pressure on players. I am liking it so far.

07. [m] Xbro UTC-6 Even though the timing of his votes were very much worst case scenario he at least is trying to defend himself today. But still. A Bitter taste is in my mouth.

08. [m] Apollo Almost absent on Day 1. On day 2 he made at least a good post. Unsure on how to feel about Apollo.

09. [f] SweetNicole UTC-5 Not shying away to put pressure onto the great nin, or other players in my eyes she is scum hunting. Even if she is scum she is scum hunting. I am liking the flavour.

10. [f] empressdonna UTC+1 Weak all along, just like stuart there is not much presence. Sadly this left me with a sour taste in my mouth.

12. [m] Brazil UTC-3 Not shying away to put pressure onto the great nin. Even if i disagree with some things he has said, he is putting down some work. Putting down work = yummy taste in my mouth

13. [m] DCPat Started off good on D2 but disappeared :( want to hear some more from you, i have a feeling you could be someone who leaves a good taste.

15. [m] Kyanrute UTC+2 I Hate that bs talk he is putting on but underneath it lies some good work. sadly most of it has been trying to defend himself because of the way he is talking. which leaves a lot to be desired. Bland taste all in all

16. [m] Zippedpinhead UTC-6 Coaster. i dont like that taste at all, since i know that zipped can taste like strawberries and i LOVE strawberries.

17. [m] Kalor UTC+1 Unsure, seriously. Cant get a hold of him at the moment. Watery taste. which tastes nothing but is essential.

18. [m] Geno UTC+3 Geno is another funny case, reacted pretty light skinned after being called out for role fishing, defended himself pretty okay. But today the talks have all been about yesterday and the way he reacted. Defended himself and grabbed onto ideas of others. He can do better but as of today his taste is not good.
 

nin

Asked Politely
Avenger
Oct 26, 2017
7,159
I don't have a read on him yet, which is what scares me. Scum!Zipped blends into the room like a well-placed piece of furniture.

Give me some more reads Brazil, no need to be lazy and call other players out for being so, put down some work like we are atm.
 

nin

Asked Politely
Avenger
Oct 26, 2017
7,159
This is no real defense for my actions but I admit, as a person irl and online, I'm not confident and don't tend to pressure anyone nor am I a fan of it.

So I suppose you could say, I'm trying to learn and get better with stuff like that.

Yes, I realize again, it's no defense for the way I've posted so far in this game but it's the way I am normally. So I guess again, I understand where you guys are coming from in respect to me being scared to challenge or pressure people.

Put down some more work Stuart. enough with defending yourself.
 

nin

Asked Politely
Avenger
Oct 26, 2017
7,159
empressdonna
putting down prod votes and asking everyone "what are your thoughts on" wont put you onto the list as active players. Since you are asking others to do your homework.
 
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Faddy

Faddy

Member
Oct 25, 2017
9,156
==== DAY 2 VOTES ====
Day Start

xbro (1 votes)
grizzly - #566
stuart444 - #610 #639

fandorin (1 votes)
geno - #501

empressdonna (1 votes)
nin - #554

stuart444 (1 votes)
brazil - #631

geno (1 votes)
apollo - #551

nin (1 votes)
stuart444 - #542 #608
sweetnicole - #544

zippedpinhead (1 votes)
empressdonna - #658

zippedpinhead[/vote] (0 votes)
empressdonna - #657 #658

sophia (0 votes)
stuart444 - #487 #505

Post Counts:
grizzly: 27 geno: 21 brazil: 20 stuart444: 17 nin: 16 kalor: 11 sweetnicole: 10 empressdonna: 10 kyanrute: 10 sophia: 10 ketkat: 9 dcpat: 9 fandorin: 8 zippedpinhead: 7 xbro: 6 apollo: 5 faddy: 3

Click here to go to the Vote Tool!


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With 16 players alive the majority is 9

Less than 24 hours until the deadline!
 

nin

Asked Politely
Avenger
Oct 26, 2017
7,159
while i appreciate you calling out Xbro for yesterday and asking him what his thoughts are i really would like to hear your thoughts on the last day phase and the current one.

Do you agree that Stuart444 is coasting along ? Is Sophia not even trying ? Why is Geno not even here and playing ? Why is Brazil suddenly not even engaging with SweetNicole even though they almost ripped each other to pieces last time.

Questions after Questions.
 

nin

Asked Politely
Avenger
Oct 26, 2017
7,159
Going to bed now.
Please respond with fire and fury.
See you all in the morning
 

nin

Asked Politely
Avenger
Oct 26, 2017
7,159
i just wanted to state that i really liked the last posts you made, Really eye opening and it is almost a door to your sweet soul.

Thank you nin you sure are a great player

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Zippedpinhead

Member
Oct 25, 2017
10,752
Zipped gave me some bad vibes earlier on. Though, chalk that one up to a gut feeling more than anything. #494 triggered some alarm bells with the way he worded the space kill, but it's worth noting that he immediately rectified his mistakes.

I hate it so much that Zippedpinhead is there on the sidelines once again. I've seen this film way too many times.

ahh... let me fix that!

Vote: Zippedpinhead

I'm sorry I'm out of pocket today. My kids say thank you though!

My top two scum is Xbro and Ketkat. Primarily by post count and lack of town cred by what posts are there.
 

Brazil

Actual Brazilian
Member
Oct 24, 2017
18,438
São Paulo, Brazil
Honestly. I've had nothing much to say to you at all. Every post from you so far have felt towny up until you're recent vote for me. But considering the recent posts about me and my prodding votes, I just took the assumption that you voted for me because of suspicion over my votes today (As someone else said, for 3 different people today even if they were just prodding votes).

So despite your vote for me, I still read you as town as none of your posts have seemed that scummy to me.
Honestly, this explanation weirds me out even more.

Here's the thing: I made this post during late D1 as if I was setting a huge piece of bait:

VOTE: Stuart444

Mostly a (surprisingly strong) gut read so far. It's a collection of little things. I'm not about to lynch a newbie on D1, though, so I'm not even gonna go there.
I listed you as one of my three main D1 suspicions. The other two were well-documented and explained in previous posts, but I specifically left out any details on yours to grab your attention and see if you'd react. The "surprisingly strong" comment was seasoning to the curiosity. I even let the vote sit there for half an hour, even though I said I wasn't for a newbie D1 lynch and even though we were less than an hour away from day end. Maybe you weren't in the thread during day end - but surely you'd question it when D2 started. You didn't.

Every single part of this whole thing so far leads me to believe you're purposefully keeping me at a distance. I don't know why, but I'd noticed it, and so I made a concentrated effort to get you to reach out to me twice - first on D1, and today with my seemingly unfounded vote -, and you didn't grab either opportunity, even though questioning me about those posts would've been the most logical move you could make.

Even if this isn't about me at all and my self-centered nature made me focus on you by mere chance, you're still consistently avoiding to confront a player who's been accusing you for two phases.
 

Stuart444

Member
Oct 25, 2017
9,073
Put down some more work Stuart. enough with defending yourself.

Yeah, okay then. I won't defend myself anymore. Instead, I'll call you out for your hypocritical stance.

You were absent a lot on D1 and today. You only showed up when called out and end up making joke posts before you finally start to contribute and say how you feel about people. While at the same time, you also make a lot of little posts including one where you pat yourself on the back which feels to me like you're artificially inflating your post count so if anyone looks at the post count for today, you'll appear active.

Frankly, I was planning on waiting until tomorrow to call you out on this despite thinking about it whenever I see you post but might as well do it now after that little barrage of posts before a quick "Going to bed now" since you know the game will have moved on enough for you to focus on something else when you return.

But I'll leave it there and put my vote where my mouth is.

Vote: nin
 

DCPat

Member
Oct 28, 2017
1,170
Yeah, okay then. I won't defend myself anymore. Instead, I'll call you out for your hypocritical stance.

You were absent a lot on D1 and today. You only showed up when called out and end up making joke posts before you finally start to contribute and say how you feel about people. While at the same time, you also make a lot of little posts including one where you pat yourself on the back which feels to me like you're artificially inflating your post count so if anyone looks at the post count for today, you'll appear active.

Frankly, I was planning on waiting until tomorrow to call you out on this despite thinking about it whenever I see you post but might as well do it now after that little barrage of posts before a quick "Going to bed now" since you know the game will have moved on enough for you to focus on something else when you return.

But I'll leave it there and put my vote where my mouth is.

Vote: nin

Haha wow. Going from a player who does not like to pressure and attack people to this well guided attack on the great Nin (Nin copyright). Bold move, let's see how that works out for him.

Sorry Nin, but I like it. Although I dont agree with all of it, specially the part about window-dressing your post count.
 

The Bear

Forest Animal
Moderator
Oct 25, 2017
4,202
I do . let me rephrase
18. [m] Geno UTC+3 Geno is another funny case, reacted pretty light skinned after being called out for role fishing, defended himself pretty okay. But today the talks have all been about yesterday and the way he reacted. Defended himself and grabbed onto ideas of others. He can do better but as of today his taste is not good.

Am I the only one who finds this read odd? Especially since nin was very visibly defending Geno D1 about the fishing, I'd almost say he reacted lot more light skinned to it than Geno himself did.
 

Apollo

Avenger
Oct 25, 2017
8,106
Beaten to death at this point but Stuart's prod votes lost more and more weight with each one he made. I like his post and vote on nin somewhat, because as somebody earlier mentioned it does seem as if nin is trying to represent how he's played no up to this point in a more positive light than reality would suggest. But by that same token
 

Ketkat

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
4,727
Oops, it looks like I misgendered Ketkat earlier. I apologize for that. >_<;

You're fine, it happens!

You didn't think there was anything odd about her vote on Sexy Fish?

I can understand how that might look odd to some people especially since I wasn't really explaining it well in the panic of the end of the day (I really wasn't prepared for just how hectic that feels). At the end of the day, the two people that I was leaning towards were Geno and Sexy Fish. The train that popped up on Geno after I put my vote on him felt really opportunistic, and Sexy Fish was a part of that. It made me second guess the votes on Geno, and that's what ended up pushing me towards him.

When I was mentioning coincidences piling up at the end of the day, I meant the combination of him and Xbro ending up being a part of similar opportunistic votes and unvotes, which was odd to me. The fact that he ended up being town means that I was definitely reading into those too much, as well as the way that some of his posts were.

If you're curious how I feel about Geno now, since that's kind of related, I feel better about him today than I did yesterday. I still don't really trust him, but I don't find it hard to believe that I fell for some bait like that. I'm still not sure what to make of his argument with Fandorin since it seems a little overly defensive when Geno's vote wasn't much better.
 

Apollo

Avenger
Oct 25, 2017
8,106
Beaten to death at this point but Stuart's prod votes lost more and more weight with each one he made. I like his post and vote on nin somewhat, because as somebody earlier mentioned it does seem as if nin is trying to represent how he's played up to this point in a more positive light than reality would suggest. But by that same token it's not a very hard case to make, and in light of the heat he was getting from the prod votes, it feels like an opportunistic and reactionary means of looking more towny.

Tl;dr Stuart doesn't come out of this looking too good to me- either scum or poor town (as a new player this would be pretty understandable, but can't overlook it just because he's new). I'm interested in seeing more scum hunting from you- I'd be concerned if the nin post is the extent of what you can offer up.
 

Apollo

Avenger
Oct 25, 2017
8,106
Wow, apparently I posted half of my message on accident. That's what I get for doing this all on mobile. In any case more to come on other matters as I'm able.
 

Android Sophia

The Absolute Sword
The Fallen
Oct 25, 2017
6,124
I can understand how that might look odd to some people especially since I wasn't really explaining it well in the panic of the end of the day (I really wasn't prepared for just how hectic that feels). At the end of the day, the two people that I was leaning towards were Geno and Sexy Fish. The train that popped up on Geno after I put my vote on him felt really opportunistic, and Sexy Fish was a part of that. It made me second guess the votes on Geno, and that's what ended up pushing me towards him.

When I was mentioning coincidences piling up at the end of the day, I meant the combination of him and Xbro ending up being a part of similar opportunistic votes and unvotes, which was odd to me. The fact that he ended up being town means that I was definitely reading into those too much, as well as the way that some of his posts were.

If you're curious how I feel about Geno now, since that's kind of related, I feel better about him today than I did yesterday. I still don't really trust him, but I don't find it hard to believe that I fell for some bait like that. I'm still not sure what to make of his argument with Fandorin since it seems a little overly defensive when Geno's vote wasn't much better.

Hmm... I like this explanation. And yeah, Day ends here can be kinda hectic.
 

Apollo

Avenger
Oct 25, 2017
8,106
I'll agree that the nin and Geno thing is curious. In #220 nin says something to the effect of wanting to prevent what Geno said from being blown out of proportion. It's one thing to have your own opinion on whether or not something is scummy, but that and the other posts he was making at the time give off a "knowing" vibe that I'm not too sure of, if that makes sense.
 

Android Sophia

The Absolute Sword
The Fallen
Oct 25, 2017
6,124
Looking at the Sexy Fish vote, we have...

sexy fish (8 votes)
brazil - #154 #247
empressdonna - #263
sweetnicole - #282 #385
stuart444 - #295
kalor - #328
dcpat - #420
ketkat - #426
sweetnicole - #441
grizzly - #444
zippedpinhead - #451

Of the people on that vote, I feel decent to good about Ketkat, SweetNicole, and Grizzly. Ketkat and Grizzly have provided satisfactory answers (I think, anyone got any objections?) for now.

SweetNicole I have a fairly strong townie read upon. The reason for this is threefold. Firstly, she had her vote on SexyFish earlier in the day phase, before jumping back on it. Secondly, her reasons for being on the Sexy Fish vote to begin with were pretty good. Lastly, she went out of her way to correct herself of her own violation at post #616 today. I guess it's possible that scummates could have told her about it, but it comes off as slightly townie as I don't think a scum player would have immediately pointed that out like she did.

So that leaves EmpressDonna, Stuart444, Kalor, DCPat, and Zipped I'm that I'm not sure about on that vote.

Of the players not on the Sexy Fish vote, I feel like I have slight blind spots for Apollo, Fandorrin, and Nin.
 

Ketkat

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
4,727
Purely based on her voting history yesterday (assuming Geno vs sexy fish is TvT) and her post count.

It's what I would do with a day 1 while on scum team. I'm projecting my place style on her that's all.

That's an odd thing to say. You voted for Sexy Fish and you posted less than me. Should we be assuming that you're using your scum playstyle?
 
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