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xtfftc
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United Kingdom2343 Posts
December 04 2011 20:34 GMT
#241
On December 05 2011 04:06 Grackaroni wrote:In fact from what I've noticed is that people who are willing to outright make a connection with another player is usually town. (palmar/wbg in XLVII)

Also Sandroba/Syllogism.

On December 05 2011 04:49 ey215 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 04 2011 21:14 xtfftc wrote:
On December 04 2011 12:52 xsksc wrote:
On December 04 2011 12:35 xtfftc wrote:
On December 04 2011 12:06 xsksc wrote:
What do you guys think of policy lynches in general? Do you think they are a good idea, if so, why?

Personally I disagree with lynching a lurker JUST because they're lurking, in a game like this anyway. The risk of hitting a townie is way too high.

Lynch all liars is a great idea though. It discourages people from lying right from day 1, the only people with a good reason to lie are scum.

Both sound great but in reality they don't work. Lynch All Liars.. People get lies and opinions mixed up all the time, and even when a lie is a lie, eventually you realise that there are different types of lies and lynching for some of them is a bit too much. Then comes the argument that if we lynch everyone caught in a lie, townies would stop lying, so we would not have to deal with all of this. But the reality is that you lynch a townie for lying, then you lose the game because of wasting a lynch in order to teach the liars a lesson, then you join another game and you realise that there's so many other players you have to teach that same lesson, and so on. If we start doing it in every single game, it might work after a while. But when you've invested a week in the game, you don't want to throw it away just because some townie attempted a stupid gamble. All you are focused on is lynching mafia.

And townies tend to get lynched for lying all the time anyway, even without having the policy in place - simply becase when someone is caught lying, they are usually accused of being mafia.

Agreeing upon whether someone is lukring or not is easier but simply lynching all lurkers is not optimal. What's important is that people realise that sometimes every active player is a townie. If your analysis leads you to the conclussion that the active players are townies, then you start lynching lurkers. That's the best we can do.


I don't understand your part about lynch all liars. Think about it logically, if we say, "Lie and you're gonna get lynched" then no townie is going to lie, are they? It's not just to teach a lesson, scum benefit greatly from lies and deceit. I want lynch-all-liers in effect today.

Also, on day 1 it's very easy for scum to post nonsense and get away with it, because day 1 can be such a mess, hell, sometimes the most active players are scum. Just because someone posts a lot doesn't make them town, lol. Look at the last newbie mini-game. Ciryandor was scum, and he posted more analysis than anyone, everyone assumed he was town and that was a big reason why town lost.



If we say lynch all liars, townies will carry on lying like they always do.
If we do lynch all liars, townies will eventually realise that they should stop.

Activity doesn't prove that someone is a townie, of course. But if you have a town read on all the active players, lynching a lurker is great.



On December 04 2011 13:01 ey215 wrote:
On the lurker bit, I do think there's a time and place for lynching. If we don't have a case on someone it's better to lynch a lurker than someone active. If they're lurking then they're not contributing or giving us something to go on. Of course, if we've got a good case on someone it's better to lynch them.


100% agree, this was pretty much my point anyway.

And there's a lot of similar views expressed later in the thread by others, so can we say that we've reached consensus? If we don't get a good case, we lynch a lurker.


Ok, just got back to the thread and I'll respond to things as I see them. I agree that we've reached a consensus to get rid of a lurker. That means lurkers, it's your time to step up and contribute.

The post I agreed with said " If we don't have a case on someone it's better to lynch a lurker than someone active". This is the crucial point for me.
Velinath
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States694 Posts
December 04 2011 20:35 GMT
#242
On December 05 2011 05:28 ey215 wrote:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?hl=en_US&hl=en_US&key=0An_BMZ9t6APFdHJQZktwcEo3a1dfNURxbDk1TWE1VWc&output=html

Can someone click on this and confirm I did it right? I would like everyone to be able to use it if they wish, but I don't do much with google docs.


Looks like it's working to me. Thanks for putting it together.

I'll be back later today - going out with some friends - and will post some more impressions then.
xtfftc
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United Kingdom2343 Posts
December 04 2011 20:39 GMT
#243
On December 05 2011 05:28 ey215 wrote:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?hl=en_US&hl=en_US&key=0An_BMZ9t6APFdHJQZktwcEo3a1dfNURxbDk1TWE1VWc&output=html

Can someone click on this and confirm I did it right? I would like everyone to be able to use it if they wish, but I don't do much with google docs.

It works but I think it's better if you have &currentpage=All at the end of each link
Tunkeg
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
Norway1235 Posts
December 04 2011 20:43 GMT
#244
Blazinghand:
In most of your posts thus far you have either been pressuring others or responding to the response of players pressured. You have tried to get the lurkers to talk. Now, what is your view on those who have been doing a fair amount of posting?
Grackaroni
Profile Joined July 2011
United States9846 Posts
December 04 2011 20:48 GMT
#245
On December 05 2011 05:43 Tunkeg wrote:
Blazinghand:
In most of your posts thus far you have either been pressuring others or responding to the response of players pressured. You have tried to get the lurkers to talk. Now, what is your view on those who have been doing a fair amount of posting?


Thank you for this! the town was getting way too focused on looking for people lurking to lynch instead of analyzing people.

That being said Electricblack/BroodkingEXE/BByte/Adam4167. you guys are all people who are lurking the thread and need to step up your game.
ey215
Profile Joined June 2010
United States546 Posts
December 04 2011 21:18 GMT
#246
On December 05 2011 04:51 Grackaroni wrote:
@Ey215 I'd really like to hear some of your strong town reads and who you think is being anti-town. You've already shown your opinion on Blazinghand but I'd like to hear your opinions


Granted take these things with a grain of salt as I don't think you can really have a strong read this early. Also, if you're name's wrong blame me I'm typing it off my notepad and wasn't exactly checking for accuracy.

Adam4167 - not willing to call pro town. Will see how he posts after sleeping it off.

BByte - Has only posted a couple times, but I do think his posts were constructive and not filler.

Blazing - Probably my strongest pro-town read. While I don't fully agree with his methods I do think he's been acting in the best interest of the town.

Broodking - Right now as lurkers go, this is where I'm leaning to vote. All of his posts are short and don't really supply anything. It's time to step it up.

Electicblack - Only posted once as my starting to write this, but was as solid post. No read.

Grackaroni - Reading town. Besides that contributing.

hasseybaby - Only posted a couple times, but I felt they were good posts. Defensive, but when being called out I don't blame him.

jaybrundage - only note I have on him is that he's reading town to me.

Tunkeg - Forced discussion on individuals by posting a list of how he's reading. I think this is pro-town.

Velinath - Seems to be playing the middle on a lot of this. However, is willing to agree/disagree with points not people which I do think is pro town.

xsksic - Started discussion, but really no read past that.

xtfftc - Seems to be tunneling on me a bit. I do think it's from a good place though so at worst null read.

I'd like to respond to the couple of people talking about me being defensive. Yes I was defensive, as a townie I don't want to get lynched and seeing my name go up as someone posting filler (which I don't agree was true) caused me to be defensive. This was specifically what I was talking about with Blazing's methods. It basically caused me to be defensive when there was no reason to be.
jaybrundage
Profile Joined December 2009
United States3921 Posts
December 04 2011 21:25 GMT
#247
My reads so far


Adam4167-
Ok so far i have a scum read on adam I you can see in my last post why
click He just comes off happy to stay off the radar I dont like how he is going about his game. Just posting ot barely keep up. And in general comes off apathetic. He says hes a bored townie but i think it could be a lurking mafia

BByte-
He has posted but not alot he seems content to just respond to people. He did comment about breadcrumbs which is true. Its funny because in my game of Mini Mafia X WBG claimed a blue role and because he breadcrumbed it people beleived him. He did post his reads on people which is good. I would like to see more posting from him. My question is what do you think of adam Bbyte
.
Blazinghand-
Blazinghand has been the biggest posting factor atm. Trying to keep people from lurking and in general trying to generate discussion. While it may not be kosher its seems like its working great. People have responded to his prods. My biggest concern is if he was mafia he would be doing a terrific job. I agree that he has been very pro town. But remember guys putting to much trust in someone is always a mistake. So be wary

BroodKingEXE-
Ok so far i posted a little to nothing. I gave my read on him before. clickerz Well i said previously that he gave off a non pro-town vibe off. I have to disagree now. Rereading his posts I just think hes just new town. Well he can be a bit hard to read i still think hes just a newbie that doesnt know whats scummy and whats townlike. However Regardless We do need to see some posts from you about what you think about other players. If you continue to post like you are you are prolly gonna get lynched. So post your content. If its wrong is not what matters what matters is that you gave your opinion.

ElectricBlack-
Ok so far ElectricBlack hasnt posted much so far. His last post was pretty good containing content about the lynching policies. His respond to BH and about how he though BH was doing a decent job of making discussion. I would really would like to get your reads on the town tho. He does bring up a good point while BH is prolly town we can completly rule anyone out as scum. Establishing thread presence is a good think for both townies and mafia to do. But again i would like you reads. So far i have a null read

ey215- Has posted alot. Mostly because of the arguement between him and and BH. BH called him out for a no content post ey responded by saying BH was making baseless accusations. And it escalated from there. Veli was trying to bring the heat down a bit (good by him). But eventually they decided to just settle things, ey defended himself well. Although to be honest im not sure of his alignment as far. He could be mafia who just did a great job defending himself or a townie who made sure that BH is not going to unchecked. Im going to keep my eye on him.

Grackaroni-
So far he has posted his reads and gave a good bit of content. Giving his reads and trying to keep everyone on the same page He mentioned that he agrees with hassybaby about not making straight up accusations like Tunkeg did so early in the game when people havent posted alot. Will i dont really agree with this. I think coming out with your town reads is always good. Premature sometimes but good. I do agree with his case on Adam tho so far hes still the scummiest in my book. So far i got a pretty good town read on him.

Hassybaby-
Ok so Hassybaby got outright accused of mafia with out even posting. Maybe we should go with people guts and just lynch him lol. Well his first post comes out and talks about the LaL policy. He mentions that we should not just lynch a lurker or liar if we have a good read on someone. I think that we all agreed on this. He then talks about how he doesnt like Tunkeg accusations However i mentioned before i dont think It is the wrong thing to do to put your reads out there. I personally like waiting for everyone to post but regardless. He then tells Tunkeg that He is accusing people to much. I still disagree with this. Tunkeg is generating discussion. I honestly think aggressive scum hunting is completely fine. I don't agree with him on his points. Weather he is scum or not is hard to tell i would like his reads before jumping to conclusions

Tunkeg-
Ok So i have mixed feelings on Tunkeg First off he comes out with his alignment posts and calls out a nonposter and me as being scum. Honeslty i think you should let people post before calling them mafia lol. I do like how he is poking and generating discussion. While i think his biggest disappointment thing was still stupid which he mentions as well. Hassy mentions that he thinks tunkeg is accusing to many people early in the game. But i think that while Tunkeg has said somethings that i dont neccesary agree with i do think its furthing a town agenda. I do think hes coming off protown even if his accusations are not always right. Tunkeg what d

Velinath-
Well as far i see Veli as being at townie. he talks about the policies a good bit Actually alot but that what the current conversation was about. he kind of gets on BKEXE case. Which i kinda did at the start as well Its really hard to read BKEXE but i still do think hes a townie. And then he gives his reads alot of them were null reads but it is still hard to place alignments on people this early in the game. I do find his amount of posting comforting tho. Makes it a bit easier to disguish his alignment.

xsksc-
Ok so i like his first post. It pretty much generated the discussion we had on policy lynches and so forth it was good to get out of the way. He mentions posts about breadcrumbs not proving blues which i agree with. talks about policies a good bit. and then tell BH to not be trigger happy. Its kinda funny that everyone gave an opinion on BH. Again aggressive scumhunting is good imo and making people post is great. He got called out on not scum hunting. Which i kinda agree with. he started the conversation about lynching talked about that for a while and then goes and doesnt give much of his reads or even analyzes any posts. I want to see his reads but im leaning scummy

xtfftc-
Well so far i dont really agree with his policy posts. I do think lynch all liars is a fine policy. He mentions that last minute lynches are a bad thing and i have to agree. he strongly agrees that everyone should post regardless of how we get them to post so he agrees with BH method. He calls out Ey as his strongest mafia read tho. Ill have to go over ey's posts again. As my read was no where near strong on Ey. He also mentions that While people can buddy up for instance BH and Veli that they can often be town and posts an example Syllogism and Sandroba. I do agree that both. So far a null read. I would like to see more of your reads tho

Well thats what i got so far plz everyone tell me what yall think this took fucking forever thank god for filters tho.
The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in battle.
Grackaroni
Profile Joined July 2011
United States9846 Posts
December 04 2011 21:34 GMT
#248
The thing that really seemed suspicious about Ey215 to me was this.
On December 05 2011 04:49 ey215 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 04 2011 21:14 xtfftc wrote:
On December 04 2011 12:52 xsksc wrote:
On December 04 2011 12:35 xtfftc wrote:
On December 04 2011 12:06 xsksc wrote:
What do you guys think of policy lynches in general? Do you think they are a good idea, if so, why?

Personally I disagree with lynching a lurker JUST because they're lurking, in a game like this anyway. The risk of hitting a townie is way too high.

Lynch all liars is a great idea though. It discourages people from lying right from day 1, the only people with a good reason to lie are scum.

Both sound great but in reality they don't work. Lynch All Liars.. People get lies and opinions mixed up all the time, and even when a lie is a lie, eventually you realise that there are different types of lies and lynching for some of them is a bit too much. Then comes the argument that if we lynch everyone caught in a lie, townies would stop lying, so we would not have to deal with all of this. But the reality is that you lynch a townie for lying, then you lose the game because of wasting a lynch in order to teach the liars a lesson, then you join another game and you realise that there's so many other players you have to teach that same lesson, and so on. If we start doing it in every single game, it might work after a while. But when you've invested a week in the game, you don't want to throw it away just because some townie attempted a stupid gamble. All you are focused on is lynching mafia.

And townies tend to get lynched for lying all the time anyway, even without having the policy in place - simply becase when someone is caught lying, they are usually accused of being mafia.

Agreeing upon whether someone is lukring or not is easier but simply lynching all lurkers is not optimal. What's important is that people realise that sometimes every active player is a townie. If your analysis leads you to the conclussion that the active players are townies, then you start lynching lurkers. That's the best we can do.


I don't understand your part about lynch all liars. Think about it logically, if we say, "Lie and you're gonna get lynched" then no townie is going to lie, are they? It's not just to teach a lesson, scum benefit greatly from lies and deceit. I want lynch-all-liers in effect today.

Also, on day 1 it's very easy for scum to post nonsense and get away with it, because day 1 can be such a mess, hell, sometimes the most active players are scum. Just because someone posts a lot doesn't make them town, lol. Look at the last newbie mini-game. Ciryandor was scum, and he posted more analysis than anyone, everyone assumed he was town and that was a big reason why town lost.



If we say lynch all liars, townies will carry on lying like they always do.
If we do lynch all liars, townies will eventually realise that they should stop.

Activity doesn't prove that someone is a townie, of course. But if you have a town read on all the active players, lynching a lurker is great.



On December 04 2011 13:01 ey215 wrote:
On the lurker bit, I do think there's a time and place for lynching. If we don't have a case on someone it's better to lynch a lurker than someone active. If they're lurking then they're not contributing or giving us something to go on. Of course, if we've got a good case on someone it's better to lynch them.


100% agree, this was pretty much my point anyway.

And there's a lot of similar views expressed later in the thread by others, so can we say that we've reached consensus? If we don't get a good case, we lynch a lurker.


Ok, just got back to the thread and I'll respond to things as I see them. I agree that we've reached a consensus to get rid of a lurker. That means lurkers, it's your time to step up and contribute.

I AM NOT LOOKING FOR A LURKER TO LYNCH, I wish every one of these players would start doing their part and contribute to town. My first priority is to analyze the active players and if as a town we cannot agree upon a scummy player then we should choose a lurker because they will remain a null read.

Instead of looking at active players your first priority is to look for a lurker to lynch, which i consider just finding an easy lynch without having to justify why you actually think that the player is scum.
jaybrundage
Profile Joined December 2009
United States3921 Posts
December 04 2011 21:54 GMT
#249
Grack whos your biggest scum read. Atm im still thinking adam what do you think
The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in battle.
jaybrundage
Profile Joined December 2009
United States3921 Posts
December 04 2011 21:56 GMT
#250
And tunkeg i would like your response to my reads heck. I would like everyones feed back. lets get some discussion going
The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in battle.
Grackaroni
Profile Joined July 2011
United States9846 Posts
December 04 2011 21:57 GMT
#251
On December 05 2011 06:54 jaybrundage wrote:
Grack whos your biggest scum read. Atm im still thinking adam what do you think

I am in really leaning scum on Adam as well. He is still not contributing at all and all he did was try to discredit the town.
I still want to get more information before putting in a vote though and really wish that he/ the rest of the lurkers start talking.

If he doesn't say anything to change my mind I will vote for Adam
ey215
Profile Joined June 2010
United States546 Posts
December 04 2011 22:00 GMT
#252
On December 05 2011 06:34 Grackaroni wrote:
The thing that really seemed suspicious about Ey215 to me was this.
Show nested quote +
On December 05 2011 04:49 ey215 wrote:
On December 04 2011 21:14 xtfftc wrote:
On December 04 2011 12:52 xsksc wrote:
On December 04 2011 12:35 xtfftc wrote:
On December 04 2011 12:06 xsksc wrote:
What do you guys think of policy lynches in general? Do you think they are a good idea, if so, why?

Personally I disagree with lynching a lurker JUST because they're lurking, in a game like this anyway. The risk of hitting a townie is way too high.

Lynch all liars is a great idea though. It discourages people from lying right from day 1, the only people with a good reason to lie are scum.

Both sound great but in reality they don't work. Lynch All Liars.. People get lies and opinions mixed up all the time, and even when a lie is a lie, eventually you realise that there are different types of lies and lynching for some of them is a bit too much. Then comes the argument that if we lynch everyone caught in a lie, townies would stop lying, so we would not have to deal with all of this. But the reality is that you lynch a townie for lying, then you lose the game because of wasting a lynch in order to teach the liars a lesson, then you join another game and you realise that there's so many other players you have to teach that same lesson, and so on. If we start doing it in every single game, it might work after a while. But when you've invested a week in the game, you don't want to throw it away just because some townie attempted a stupid gamble. All you are focused on is lynching mafia.

And townies tend to get lynched for lying all the time anyway, even without having the policy in place - simply becase when someone is caught lying, they are usually accused of being mafia.

Agreeing upon whether someone is lukring or not is easier but simply lynching all lurkers is not optimal. What's important is that people realise that sometimes every active player is a townie. If your analysis leads you to the conclussion that the active players are townies, then you start lynching lurkers. That's the best we can do.


I don't understand your part about lynch all liars. Think about it logically, if we say, "Lie and you're gonna get lynched" then no townie is going to lie, are they? It's not just to teach a lesson, scum benefit greatly from lies and deceit. I want lynch-all-liers in effect today.

Also, on day 1 it's very easy for scum to post nonsense and get away with it, because day 1 can be such a mess, hell, sometimes the most active players are scum. Just because someone posts a lot doesn't make them town, lol. Look at the last newbie mini-game. Ciryandor was scum, and he posted more analysis than anyone, everyone assumed he was town and that was a big reason why town lost.



If we say lynch all liars, townies will carry on lying like they always do.
If we do lynch all liars, townies will eventually realise that they should stop.

Activity doesn't prove that someone is a townie, of course. But if you have a town read on all the active players, lynching a lurker is great.



On December 04 2011 13:01 ey215 wrote:
On the lurker bit, I do think there's a time and place for lynching. If we don't have a case on someone it's better to lynch a lurker than someone active. If they're lurking then they're not contributing or giving us something to go on. Of course, if we've got a good case on someone it's better to lynch them.


100% agree, this was pretty much my point anyway.

And there's a lot of similar views expressed later in the thread by others, so can we say that we've reached consensus? If we don't get a good case, we lynch a lurker.


Ok, just got back to the thread and I'll respond to things as I see them. I agree that we've reached a consensus to get rid of a lurker. That means lurkers, it's your time to step up and contribute.

I AM NOT LOOKING FOR A LURKER TO LYNCH, I wish every one of these players would start doing their part and contribute to town. My first priority is to analyze the active players and if as a town we cannot agree upon a scummy player then we should choose a lurker because they will remain a null read.

Instead of looking at active players your first priority is to look for a lurker to lynch, which i consider just finding an easy lynch without having to justify why you actually think that the player is scum.


No one is looking for a lurker to lynch. Go back and read my filter I have argued that we need to be looking at quality of posts over quantity of posts. With that being said, it's hard as hell to have a solid scum read on anyone day one, and if I have to make a choice I'm choosing someone not posting, or posting hardly anything of consequence to lynch over someone that has been active.

You don't lynch for information, you lynch scum. Barring having a good read, we should get rid of someone not contributing since they're not doing anything to help the town anyways.
BroodKingEXE
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
United States829 Posts
December 04 2011 22:06 GMT
#253
For all of you who are getting a bad read on me, I want to confirm that I am a newbie. While I respect that Blazinghand has been pusing to prevent lurkers my reponses were obivouisly to defend myself. I feel that it is still a strategy that will work to get reads on the mafia, even if it has put me in the red. In the early stages of the game I feel that there is no way I would be able to get any proper reads as a newbie, but right now I am leaning to:

Mafia:

Adam - his critism of Blazinghand's style comes right after a compliment showing that he is defininetly trying to kiss up to him.

Hassy - he also critized Blazinghand's style in that he accuses him of targeting people early. His votes were clearly for getting people to talk, not at all to decide who to lynch.

Townies:
Blazing - has been contributing to the discussion and trying to get others to talk.

Velinath - I am kind of borderline on this as he has been contributing, but he seems to be following Blazing as opposed to creating comments of his own.

Turnkeg - I think he has been pressuring a little, trying to get a read,but I will go for townie.

Grackoroni - I will put him here because in one of his comments he left his own name on Turneg's read list and did not comment. I feel like this would have been something that he could have used to push his case.

As for the rest I feel like I have not got enough infomation. I am going to be off for the next few hours as I have a project due, but I will be sure to take a break to put my vote in.
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jaybrundage
Profile Joined December 2009
United States3921 Posts
December 04 2011 22:15 GMT
#254
BKEXE
Nice great to see some content from you i do agree with you on adam but for different reasons I also think your town reads are pretty spot on. What do you think about my reads they actually are pretty close ot yours. Im curious what you thinkg about ey he has posted alot and is not in your reads. He posted a his reads but mostly town.

And Ey if you had to choice a someone to vote for now who would it be. You said BKEXE. But i dont find him a viable vote imo I still think hes new townie unless i see a post that changes my mind about him anyone else on your radar
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xtfftc
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United Kingdom2343 Posts
December 04 2011 22:28 GMT
#255
Okay, last post before I go to bed. I won't be able to post while I'm at work tomorrow but I should be back about ~7-8 hours before the deadline.

BKE hasn't been active enough and I still have him on my lurkers list, so I want more from him before I go behind a lynch. The others on it are Adam*, Bbyte, ElectricBlack. They all worry me but we've got good overall activity levels (to some extent thanks to Blazinghand), so they won't be able to stay in the dark for too long. All he's done is talk about the policies, refuse to see the counter-arguments, reprimand Blazinghand for putting some extra effort

* Adam posted something rather anti-town earleir though:

I am all for lynching anyone who scum slips or is caught in an outright lie, as they're almost sure to be mafia.


There's two problems with this quote. The first one is that this is exactly what mafia want. They want to focus on someone saying one stupid thing and lynch that person. Ask your coaches if you don't agree with me: lynching someone over a single "scumslip" tends to be main reason why towns lynch an innocent on Day 1.

The second is that he mixes a "scum slip" and "an outright lie". We had a lot of talk about LaL and a lot of you disagree with me. You want a strict policy on it and although I think it favours mafia, it can also help town, so it's okay. What is not okay is trying to tie "scumslipping" to the same policy without holding a proper discussion on what we consider to be a scumslip and what we consider to be someone overreacting over bad wording. This is very pro-mafia as it gives them an easy way to push for lynches.

Grackaroni and Velinath's lists were okayish but they had too much town/null reads without addressing what they suggest us to do next. If (pretty much) everyone is town or null, do we randomly lynch a lurker or what? We need accusations, otherwise we end up with nothing. If posts like this are acceptible, we make it way too easy for mafia to "contribute" without contributing.
Uh, while I was writing this bit Grackaroni came up with a strong target (and he gains greeny points for doing so). I'll have to go through his, Adam's, and jay's posts again before I make up my mind on Adam though.

ey215 I'm still not happy with and it wasn't just his defense that made me suspicious. But perhaps I am tunneling him a bit too much indeed. Unless he proves me wrong, he's going to be my main target on Day 2.

My main lynch candidate for now is xsksc. While I am very suspicious of ey215, he is around and has put some effort to defend himself. xsk, however, posted some stuff at the start of the game and is happy to ride on the early town vibe he left in some of us without giving out any actual reads.

On December 04 2011 21:12 xsksc wrote:
Also, you make it sound like I've not been scum-hunting, which is a little unfair I think.
I got the thread going, which gave us the content we need to analyse with. I've also noted how certain people are interacting, how people responded to pressure, how people feel about policies, etc etc. It will all be useful when it comes to deciding the lynch. Just because I haven't made a "dis guy hasn't posted 10 hours in so he must be scum" post, doesn't mean I'm not scum-hunting.

Most of his posts are about lynching lurkers (and liars) and when being called out by Tunkeg for not doing any hunting he states that he's been doing analysis.... just not sharing his reads with us. This just won't do.

##Vote: xsksc
xtfftc
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United Kingdom2343 Posts
December 04 2011 22:30 GMT
#256
Oh, and here comes BKE. Could you elaborate on Hassy and Adam? Add some specific examples if possible.
ey215
Profile Joined June 2010
United States546 Posts
December 04 2011 23:00 GMT
#257
On December 05 2011 07:15 jaybrundage wrote:
BKEXE
Nice great to see some content from you i do agree with you on adam but for different reasons I also think your town reads are pretty spot on. What do you think about my reads they actually are pretty close ot yours. Im curious what you thinkg about ey he has posted alot and is not in your reads. He posted a his reads but mostly town.

And Ey if you had to choice a someone to vote for now who would it be. You said BKEXE. But i dont find him a viable vote imo I still think hes new townie unless i see a post that changes my mind about him anyone else on your radar


Until he posted his last post, BKEXE was probably where I'd throw my vote. For the moment, that's just enough to get by. I'd like to see him answer your questions well.

So now, if we were coming to deadline I'd probably vote for Adam4167. Feels like a lot of filler, and a couple of his points I haven't agreed with. I'm honestly not really solid on anyone at the moment.
Tunkeg
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
Norway1235 Posts
December 04 2011 23:04 GMT
#258
On December 05 2011 06:56 jaybrundage wrote:
And tunkeg i would like your response to my reads heck. I would like everyones feed back. lets get some discussion going


On December 05 2011 06:25 jaybrundage wrote:
My reads so far


Adam4167-
Ok so far i have a scum read on adam I you can see in my last post why
click He just comes off happy to stay off the radar I dont like how he is going about his game. Just posting ot barely keep up. And in general comes off apathetic. He says hes a bored townie but i think it could be a lurking mafia

BByte-
He has posted but not alot he seems content to just respond to people. He did comment about breadcrumbs which is true. Its funny because in my game of Mini Mafia X WBG claimed a blue role and because he breadcrumbed it people beleived him. He did post his reads on people which is good. I would like to see more posting from him. My question is what do you think of adam Bbyte
.
Blazinghand-
Blazinghand has been the biggest posting factor atm. Trying to keep people from lurking and in general trying to generate discussion. While it may not be kosher its seems like its working great. People have responded to his prods. My biggest concern is if he was mafia he would be doing a terrific job. I agree that he has been very pro town. But remember guys putting to much trust in someone is always a mistake. So be wary

BroodKingEXE-
Ok so far i posted a little to nothing. I gave my read on him before. clickerz Well i said previously that he gave off a non pro-town vibe off. I have to disagree now. Rereading his posts I just think hes just new town. Well he can be a bit hard to read i still think hes just a newbie that doesnt know whats scummy and whats townlike. However Regardless We do need to see some posts from you about what you think about other players. If you continue to post like you are you are prolly gonna get lynched. So post your content. If its wrong is not what matters what matters is that you gave your opinion.

ElectricBlack-
Ok so far ElectricBlack hasnt posted much so far. His last post was pretty good containing content about the lynching policies. His respond to BH and about how he though BH was doing a decent job of making discussion. I would really would like to get your reads on the town tho. He does bring up a good point while BH is prolly town we can completly rule anyone out as scum. Establishing thread presence is a good think for both townies and mafia to do. But again i would like you reads. So far i have a null read

ey215- Has posted alot. Mostly because of the arguement between him and and BH. BH called him out for a no content post ey responded by saying BH was making baseless accusations. And it escalated from there. Veli was trying to bring the heat down a bit (good by him). But eventually they decided to just settle things, ey defended himself well. Although to be honest im not sure of his alignment as far. He could be mafia who just did a great job defending himself or a townie who made sure that BH is not going to unchecked. Im going to keep my eye on him.

Grackaroni-
So far he has posted his reads and gave a good bit of content. Giving his reads and trying to keep everyone on the same page He mentioned that he agrees with hassybaby about not making straight up accusations like Tunkeg did so early in the game when people havent posted alot. Will i dont really agree with this. I think coming out with your town reads is always good. Premature sometimes but good. I do agree with his case on Adam tho so far hes still the scummiest in my book. So far i got a pretty good town read on him.

Hassybaby-
Ok so Hassybaby got outright accused of mafia with out even posting. Maybe we should go with people guts and just lynch him lol. Well his first post comes out and talks about the LaL policy. He mentions that we should not just lynch a lurker or liar if we have a good read on someone. I think that we all agreed on this. He then talks about how he doesnt like Tunkeg accusations However i mentioned before i dont think It is the wrong thing to do to put your reads out there. I personally like waiting for everyone to post but regardless. He then tells Tunkeg that He is accusing people to much. I still disagree with this. Tunkeg is generating discussion. I honestly think aggressive scum hunting is completely fine. I don't agree with him on his points. Weather he is scum or not is hard to tell i would like his reads before jumping to conclusions

Tunkeg-
Ok So i have mixed feelings on Tunkeg First off he comes out with his alignment posts and calls out a nonposter and me as being scum. Honeslty i think you should let people post before calling them mafia lol. I do like how he is poking and generating discussion. While i think his biggest disappointment thing was still stupid which he mentions as well. Hassy mentions that he thinks tunkeg is accusing to many people early in the game. But i think that while Tunkeg has said somethings that i dont neccesary agree with i do think its furthing a town agenda. I do think hes coming off protown even if his accusations are not always right. Tunkeg what d

Velinath-
Well as far i see Veli as being at townie. he talks about the policies a good bit Actually alot but that what the current conversation was about. he kind of gets on BKEXE case. Which i kinda did at the start as well Its really hard to read BKEXE but i still do think hes a townie. And then he gives his reads alot of them were null reads but it is still hard to place alignments on people this early in the game. I do find his amount of posting comforting tho. Makes it a bit easier to disguish his alignment.

xsksc-
Ok so i like his first post. It pretty much generated the discussion we had on policy lynches and so forth it was good to get out of the way. He mentions posts about breadcrumbs not proving blues which i agree with. talks about policies a good bit. and then tell BH to not be trigger happy. Its kinda funny that everyone gave an opinion on BH. Again aggressive scumhunting is good imo and making people post is great. He got called out on not scum hunting. Which i kinda agree with. he started the conversation about lynching talked about that for a while and then goes and doesnt give much of his reads or even analyzes any posts. I want to see his reads but im leaning scummy

xtfftc-
Well so far i dont really agree with his policy posts. I do think lynch all liars is a fine policy. He mentions that last minute lynches are a bad thing and i have to agree. he strongly agrees that everyone should post regardless of how we get them to post so he agrees with BH method. He calls out Ey as his strongest mafia read tho. Ill have to go over ey's posts again. As my read was no where near strong on Ey. He also mentions that While people can buddy up for instance BH and Veli that they can often be town and posts an example Syllogism and Sandroba. I do agree that both. So far a null read. I would like to see more of your reads tho

Well thats what i got so far plz everyone tell me what yall think this took fucking forever thank god for filters tho.


Overall a good post, I agree on most of your reads. But my comments are:

Adam: I was also tipping abit against scum on Adam, because of his lurking ways, but he is the only one who have been saying anti-town on Blazinghand, and I would think scum would not go after Blazinghand, but go for more easier targets.

ElectricBlack Not sure if I agree on that his post was a really good post, it was an ok first post, and had he followed up then yeah, he could have been able to establish himself as town. But for me it seems abit like he is trying to give out as little information as possible, and that is not good for town.

xtfftc He is a very hard read indeed. His posts have been seemingly protown, and he have had good activity. But he have supported me and Blazinghand, and as a scum that might be smart as many have town reads on us. He then have put his red mark on ey215 and a FOS on xsksc. ey215 is one of those who at the time could get framed and bandwagon lynched (based of his feud with Blazinghand) and afterward it would not be as obvious as for instance BroodKingEXE. Xsksc as a town is also a player I would presume scum would get rid off if they had the chance. So I consider xtfftc either a good townie or a great scum.

As a final note I would like to say I completely agree of your comment about Blazinghand. There is no such thing as confirmed town!








Tunkeg
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
Norway1235 Posts
December 04 2011 23:12 GMT
#259
+ Show Spoiler +
On December 05 2011 07:28 xtfftc wrote:
Okay, last post before I go to bed. I won't be able to post while I'm at work tomorrow but I should be back about ~7-8 hours before the deadline.

BKE hasn't been active enough and I still have him on my lurkers list, so I want more from him before I go behind a lynch. The others on it are Adam*, Bbyte, ElectricBlack. They all worry me but we've got good overall activity levels (to some extent thanks to Blazinghand), so they won't be able to stay in the dark for too long. All he's done is talk about the policies, refuse to see the counter-arguments, reprimand Blazinghand for putting some extra effort

* Adam posted something rather anti-town earleir though:

Show nested quote +
I am all for lynching anyone who scum slips or is caught in an outright lie, as they're almost sure to be mafia.


There's two problems with this quote. The first one is that this is exactly what mafia want. They want to focus on someone saying one stupid thing and lynch that person. Ask your coaches if you don't agree with me: lynching someone over a single "scumslip" tends to be main reason why towns lynch an innocent on Day 1.

The second is that he mixes a "scum slip" and "an outright lie". We had a lot of talk about LaL and a lot of you disagree with me. You want a strict policy on it and although I think it favours mafia, it can also help town, so it's okay. What is not okay is trying to tie "scumslipping" to the same policy without holding a proper discussion on what we consider to be a scumslip and what we consider to be someone overreacting over bad wording. This is very pro-mafia as it gives them an easy way to push for lynches.

Grackaroni and Velinath's lists were okayish but they had too much town/null reads without addressing what they suggest us to do next. If (pretty much) everyone is town or null, do we randomly lynch a lurker or what? We need accusations, otherwise we end up with nothing. If posts like this are acceptible, we make it way too easy for mafia to "contribute" without contributing.
Uh, while I was writing this bit Grackaroni came up with a strong target (and he gains greeny points for doing so). I'll have to go through his, Adam's, and jay's posts again before I make up my mind on Adam though.

ey215 I'm still not happy with and it wasn't just his defense that made me suspicious. But perhaps I am tunneling him a bit too much indeed. Unless he proves me wrong, he's going to be my main target on Day 2.

My main lynch candidate for now is xsksc. While I am very suspicious of ey215, he is around and has put some effort to defend himself. xsk, however, posted some stuff at the start of the game and is happy to ride on the early town vibe he left in some of us without giving out any actual reads.

Show nested quote +
On December 04 2011 21:12 xsksc wrote:
Also, you make it sound like I've not been scum-hunting, which is a little unfair I think.
I got the thread going, which gave us the content we need to analyse with. I've also noted how certain people are interacting, how people responded to pressure, how people feel about policies, etc etc. It will all be useful when it comes to deciding the lynch. Just because I haven't made a "dis guy hasn't posted 10 hours in so he must be scum" post, doesn't mean I'm not scum-hunting.

Most of his posts are about lynching lurkers (and liars) and when being called out by Tunkeg for not doing any hunting he states that he's been doing analysis.... just not sharing his reads with us. This just won't do.

##Vote: xsksc



Did not see xtfftc's post before I posted mine. Another post that is seemingly pro-town, but where there could be a hidden agenda.
Tunkeg
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
Norway1235 Posts
December 04 2011 23:15 GMT
#260
Off to bed as well, also have work tomorrow, so don't expect me back for a 16-17 hours, unless I can sneak in a comment during lunch or something.
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