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Vivax
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
21972 Posts
September 04 2014 07:45 GMT
#761
On September 04 2014 14:08 3d12 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 04 2014 13:45 Vivax wrote:
3d12, I quoted two posts of yours regarding bunnies that seem contradictory and generally dont display well how you decide to get the current read on her, can you go into detail about that stuff?


Sure. Quoted here, for posterity.

Show nested quote +
On September 04 2014 11:31 Vivax wrote:
Specifically:

On September 03 2014 03:07 3d12 wrote:
On September 03 2014 02:22 kitaman27 wrote:
On September 03 2014 02:21 kitaman27 wrote:
On September 02 2014 17:24 3d12 wrote:
Obi is a bit of a mystery, but is starting to look more pink to me. The fact that he was so willing to vote out bat for what was likely a provocation post makes me question his motives, but the fact that he instantly switched his view to Templar after receiving some pressure is a bit more fishy. More data is needed, but the radar is definitely reading slightly pink.


On September 02 2014 17:24 3d12 wrote:
It wasn't who he voted for, it was how he voted and why. By casting a vote in a random direction, one can sit back and observe how people react to that vote. That's not typically Mafia behavior, though I will admit the long-winded post from earlier had me confused as well. All in all, it's a tough read; but if I had to imagine myself in his position, I wouldn't imagine he'd want to make such a big target out of himself on D1 if he were Mafia.


On September 02 2014 04:43 ObiWanShinobi wrote:
Reporting in.

##vote 27nb


So why doesn't your logic that gives you a town read on bat, not apply to obi? Didn't he "cast a vote in a random direction"? You say bat wouldn't want to make a big target of himself as mafia by random voting, but obi would? This seems inconsistent to me.


EBWOP


If you'd asked me this 4 hours in, I'd have read Obi as green as I did bat. His opening vote was similarly provocative, and there was little reason to suspect. Since pushing to have bat plynched though, Obi has pointed fingers at two other parties and is acting much more defensive. I'm not voting yet, but Obi is definitely on my radar.

On September 03 2014 01:38 Damdred wrote:
On September 03 2014 01:30 3d12 wrote:
On September 03 2014 01:11 Damdred wrote:
Actually 3d, why are you ignoring bunnies right now? She has said a couple times that she would be happy to get you out of the game, what do you think of that? Why did you put off commenting on it?


Not worth comment, imo. She said herself that her read on me is only a "gut read," and if people are happy with bandwagoning on a gut feeling to have me lynched, I'll happily /obs and laugh as the scum runs away with the game.


Well I can understand that. However what do you think of bunnies posts besides her gut feeling on you?


What posts? Aside from a suspicious(ly silly) read on poofter and a CTA for a vigi on bat, she hasn't contributed much to the discussion so far. If anything, if the deadline was right now and I had to cast my vote, I think 27nb would be my choice.
Stepping up and trying to publicly read poofter as town based on nothing but troll posts gives me a bad feeling that there may even be a bus straight to LYLO going on under our noses.


On September 04 2014 03:53 3d12 wrote:
Hey everyone, sorry for going MIA yesterday. I got dragged into a bit of a mess IRL that ended up sucking up my night. I lurked the thread on my phone when I could get service, and took down some notes:

Notes from last night:
1. The next person to suggest we ignore missions is getting full-on scumread. This topic keeps coming up, very sporadically, and it feels like a few people are trying to echo the idea across the crowd, so it's more acceptable later. Ignoring the mission concept is completely unacceptable and will only serve to hinder us. Stay vigilant for possible mission-like behaviors, everyone. I get the feeling that they would be rather out-of-the-ordinary missions, otherwise the host could have just as well run vanilla. (Sorry for the meta read there, but if anyone wants to refute that, I'm open to hear your case.)

2. Micchan is giving off a serious mafia vibe to me. Not only did his bandwagoning post seem forced ("Ok here whatever" as if he's trying to seem aloof) but the fact that his only other post yesterday was a defensive misdirection, posted only 20 minutes after he was called out. He's either really bad at this game, scum, too busy IRL to play, or any/all of the above.

3. Poofter's reads (specifically the BMK list) seem solid for the most part, but the way he posted and went after Micchan tells me something isn't right. Specifically, the way he's applying pressure to vote. The reads say town, but the pressure says mafia. Nobody on my town list so far has been pushing for a D1 lynch.

4. My posts usually do come across as apologetic. Not just here either. Blame my mother for giving birth within spitting distance of Canada. Anyone reading into that makes it on my scum list, since it looks like they're conjuring fault out of nothing.


With my personal notes out of the way, let's move on to direct responses:

On September 03 2014 05:23 The_Templar wrote:

On September 03 2014 03:07 3d12 wrote:
On September 03 2014 02:22 kitaman27 wrote:
On September 03 2014 02:21 kitaman27 wrote:
On September 02 2014 17:24 3d12 wrote:
Obi is a bit of a mystery, but is starting to look more pink to me. The fact that he was so willing to vote out bat for what was likely a provocation post makes me question his motives, but the fact that he instantly switched his view to Templar after receiving some pressure is a bit more fishy. More data is needed, but the radar is definitely reading slightly pink.


On September 02 2014 17:24 3d12 wrote:
It wasn't who he voted for, it was how he voted and why. By casting a vote in a random direction, one can sit back and observe how people react to that vote. That's not typically Mafia behavior, though I will admit the long-winded post from earlier had me confused as well. All in all, it's a tough read; but if I had to imagine myself in his position, I wouldn't imagine he'd want to make such a big target out of himself on D1 if he were Mafia.


On September 02 2014 04:43 ObiWanShinobi wrote:
Reporting in.

##vote 27nb


So why doesn't your logic that gives you a town read on bat, not apply to obi? Didn't he "cast a vote in a random direction"? You say bat wouldn't want to make a big target of himself as mafia by random voting, but obi would? This seems inconsistent to me.


EBWOP


If you'd asked me this 4 hours in, I'd have read Obi as green as I did bat. His opening vote was similarly provocative, and there was little reason to suspect. Since pushing to have bat plynched though, Obi has pointed fingers at two other parties and is acting much more defensive. I'm not voting yet, but Obi is definitely on my radar.

On September 03 2014 01:38 Damdred wrote:
On September 03 2014 01:30 3d12 wrote:
On September 03 2014 01:11 Damdred wrote:
Actually 3d, why are you ignoring bunnies right now? She has said a couple times that she would be happy to get you out of the game, what do you think of that? Why did you put off commenting on it?


Not worth comment, imo. She said herself that her read on me is only a "gut read," and if people are happy with bandwagoning on a gut feeling to have me lynched, I'll happily /obs and laugh as the scum runs away with the game.


Well I can understand that. However what do you think of bunnies posts besides her gut feeling on you?


What posts? Aside from a suspicious(ly silly) read on poofter and a CTA for a vigi on bat, she hasn't contributed much to the discussion so far. If anything, if the deadline was right now and I had to cast my vote, I think 27nb would be my choice. Stepping up and trying to publicly read poofter as town based on nothing but troll posts gives me a bad feeling that there may even be a bus straight to LYLO going on under our noses.

If you think bunnies' activities make her lynchable right now you should probably explain the posts she has made...


Up until this post in the thread, bunnies' biggest contribution to the thread was to town claim for the person she's been buddying/bantering with throughout the whole thread. Suspicious? Yes. Lynchable? Not by itself.

I also particularly disliked the way bunnies was gathering information, going from defensive short-posts to prodding people for their reads and then replying to each one-by-one. Generally, townies are more willing to share their reads, instead of needing to base their perspective on other people's reads.

Today's bunnies is a bit different from yesterday's bunnies, in that she's laid out a list of her reads. No information or explanation, but at least she's sharing. I do like that.


On September 03 2014 22:14 27ninjabunnies wrote:
@3d12- you said my read on tehpoofter was silly and based on troll posts, but I think I gave a bit more reasoning than that. why is the read silly to you? What do you think of poofter so far?

Also http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/mafia/465384-mission-mini-mafia?page=17#338<--------- Town tehpoof


The read is silly because it was based entirely on meta. A person's meta can change from game to game. This read came from nothing tangible. For example, it would be impossible for me to have the same read on poof because I've never played with him. Since you and I have been exposed to the same information this game, you are using information I have not been exposed to to make a claim on someone else. That is absolutely 100% fishy, would you agree?

As for my reads on poofter, see point 3 from my "last night's notes" above, and my list of reads below.

On September 03 2014 05:38 mderg wrote:
Anyone else thinking that 3d12 is trying hard to get some newbie bonus? I also don't like how a provocative opening instantly makes him townread people.


Anyone else thinking that mderg is trying hard to get some focus on me? I wasn't the only one to nullread/townread bat yesterday. And yes, traditionally from my live mafia experience, provocative openings are usually townies. It's probably an 80/20 split. I never confirmed him green, but I pointed out that bat looked town from the way he opened. If you have a better reason to scumread him instead, why not post your reasoning?

On September 03 2014 00:05 mderg wrote:
I don't like the batsnacks votes. They seem kinda lazy. Sure, his post didn't make any sense but that's it.


This was all the reasoning I could find in your filter, and it's pretty weak. So, how about it, mderg? Batsnacks: scum or town?


List of reads:

Mafia
ObiWanShinobi (Very non-committal so far, easily switched vote from "troll vote" to batsnacks once it seemed like bat was being scumread. Hesitant to share information. Off-topic posts. Only real redeeming quality so far is calling out kush, very pro-town move.)
mderg (Repeatedly pushing the "ignore the missions" idea, provoking reactions from players while not disclosing any information himself, heavy lurking, generally defensive)
kushm4sta (Tunnel-vision on batsnacks, trying to start a plynch, low activity otherwise)
Micchan (Inactivity, defensive, no thoughts shared, no case built, suspicious bandwagoning)

Mafia-likely (Pink)
TehPoofter (High voting pressure, starting a bandwagon/plynch, very large filter, calls people out on buddying while blatantly attempting to buddy, redeemed so far by good questioning of Templar's motives)
Oatsmaster (Avoiding all talk about missions, redirecting scum claims towards bat and Obi, not posting thoughts openly)

Neutral (White)
The_Templar (Good expression and information-sharing, challenges unnatural ideas/thoughts, sensibly pieces together a motive. Neutral because of weak (meta/defensive) defense about his role)
Vivax (Strange read on poofter, but otherwise constructs very sensible and well-put-together posts pointing out discrepancies. Without the pink vibe from his accusations toward kita and templar, would likely be very town atm.)
Damdred (No real read yet, seems to be gathering information. Is asking the right questions, but not sharing information openly)
27ninjabunnies (Good info balanced out by suspicious buddying/claiming)

Town
batsnacks (I wasn't sure at first, but after your expose on kita, I know you're looking in the right places. Your investigation is solid and you're providing direct responses to your challenges. I highly doubt kita is scum, but I like the way you think.)
kitaman27 (The main source of information so far imo, this guy is posting very good reads and keeping good notes. Only scummy behavior so far is what was pointed out by Vivax, but without further proof I'm willing to let it slide as a poor choice of words)

All in all, I don't like the idea of a plynch. However, I less like the idea of scum lurking the thread and hopping on whatever bandwagon is hot at the time. Let's change that.

##Vote: Micchan



My read on bunnies was based mostly on her read of poofter. Early D1 I didn't like the way she openly read him as town for reasons of personal meta. At the moment, it seemed like the most likely scenario was that she was buddying and attempting to avoid suspect. Later on in the day, she seemed to become more perceptive and started posting reads and sharing info, interacting with more people.

Specifically this post, which was indicative that we're at least reading kita the same way:

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On September 03 2014 22:31 27ninjabunnies wrote:
On September 03 2014 22:23 kitaman27 wrote:
On September 03 2014 21:50 27ninjabunnies wrote:
Anything special happened?


On September 03 2014 21:13 batsnacks wrote:
If I'm gambling, I bet kitaman is mafia and his mission is that he has to vote with the majority.

##vote: kitaman27


Thoughts?


Well, Bat's read disagrees with mine. I find you quite townie. Your posts have been pretty good, your reads aren't too bad (though reads arent technically alignment indicative), and your questions have been great. I like where your mind is at. Mostly.

Tho, not sure if bats vote is troll or actually serious. If serious, Im curious as to the conclusion he came up with on you and how you are mafia.


I'm not 100% convinced she's town, but she gained a few town points to me in the twilight hours of D1.


Yea but what I'm still missing here is the contradiction: First you said "If I could lynch someone now it would be bunnies".
In the later post you backtrack from this and say about the same stuff "suspicious, yes, but lynchable no".

Then mention how you didn't like her way of prodding people for reads.

And at the end of this it's suddenly all cool cause she shared her reads at some point.

Your suspicion of her is not as visible at this point, compared to the previous post where you said you would lynch her, and you mention a mix of scummy and not scummy stuff you conclude with by saying something that you like (she's sharing reads of her own).

What also is out of my understanding is that you mention the scummy stuff a person has done and when she stops doing it, it's suddenly all right again. It's like pointing out things that make somebody scum, they are there, they are out and you saw them and picked up on it.

And when that person simply stops doing the mistakes you called her out for, you unscumread her? Just like that?
Vivax
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
21972 Posts
September 04 2014 07:47 GMT
#762
Oh and with the post you answered to me just now you forgot to mention one of the things you previously found scummy about her: That she was asking people for their reads.

Forgetful about the reasons you found her scummy for?
27ninjabunnies
Profile Joined April 2014
United States2486 Posts
September 04 2014 12:59 GMT
#763
Actually I'm curious. How is asking for reads scummy?

3d, have you played forum mafia before (you might have answered this before, but I'm lazy and don't want to search)
I suspect the secret of personal attraction is locked up in our unique imperfections, flaws and frailties.~Hugh Mackay
The_Templar
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
your Country52797 Posts
September 04 2014 13:04 GMT
#764
On September 04 2014 12:38 Vivax wrote:
Templar feels like very tunnel visioned to me.
However he has 6 pages of filter so far so I don't feel like he's one of the guys I would lynch any time soon.

I would be interested into knowing what his other options are however.

you mean besides batsnacks who I proposed as an alternate wagon at EOD?
3d12 is also looking very strange to me (surprise)
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The_Templar
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
your Country52797 Posts
September 04 2014 13:05 GMT
#765
On September 04 2014 21:59 27ninjabunnies wrote:
Actually I'm curious. How is asking for reads scummy?

3d, have you played forum mafia before (you might have answered this before, but I'm lazy and don't want to search)

he said he played live mafia a few times, didn't say anything about forum mafia (he didn't know # of mafia) so I guess… no?
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27ninjabunnies
Profile Joined April 2014
United States2486 Posts
September 04 2014 13:21 GMT
#766
On September 04 2014 22:05 The_Templar wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 04 2014 21:59 27ninjabunnies wrote:
Actually I'm curious. How is asking for reads scummy?

3d, have you played forum mafia before (you might have answered this before, but I'm lazy and don't want to search)

he said he played live mafia a few times, didn't say anything about forum mafia (he didn't know # of mafia) so I guess… no?


Then that leads me to this question: did those who asked for other people's reads always turn out scum?

I suspect the secret of personal attraction is locked up in our unique imperfections, flaws and frailties.~Hugh Mackay
Oatsmaster
Profile Joined October 2012
United States16628 Posts
September 04 2014 14:21 GMT
#767
I was talking about this when I said overexplained votes

On September 04 2014 02:56 mderg wrote:
I think the Micchan lynch is our best option right now. Yes, he's an easy target but there's a reason for that. His play didn't really look townie.

##vote: Micchan


batsnacks, is it really that scummy to go after easy targets? You brought this up against bot poofter and kitaman. I don't think going after easy targets is inherently a scummy thing to do. After all they are easy targets because something about them is scummy.

On September 04 2014 03:04 Damdred wrote:
##Vote:Micchan

Theres a few things that have led me to this vote. The first being in the way that his posts have gone about. He casually threw more accusations at 3d when pressure on him was the highest. He complained about the thread but never tried to fix it, gave excuses why he did not post yesterday and never posted again. All he has done is lurk, and while lurking is not scummy his play and posts look and feel scummy to me. A couple games ago I got into a situation that was similar in arnie and I let GB slide doing somewhat the same things and I don't want to make that mistake again by letting someone go whos to scummy to be scum.


yeah im lynching damdred tmr.
No gg, No skill.
kushm4sta
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States8878 Posts
September 04 2014 14:41 GMT
#768
over the last few pages which i kind of skimmed for my name I saw a lot of
"kush is mafia because he doesn't give a fuck/low activity"

I don't blame you for not being able reading me as town. But you have to realize that low activity doesn't make me mafia. This is from the pregame for cell mafia:
On August 26 2014 00:24 kushm4sta wrote:
i would love to play this game but im not going to have time to play a 20 person game after sept 2.

So basically what I'm saying is low activity doesn't make me mafia.
OMGUS.net, kush sex blogs every friday night
Oatsmaster
Profile Joined October 2012
United States16628 Posts
September 04 2014 14:50 GMT
#769
so why are you mafia this game then kush?
No gg, No skill.
The_Templar
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
your Country52797 Posts
September 04 2014 15:15 GMT
#770
On September 04 2014 23:21 Oatsmaster wrote:
I was talking about this when I said overexplained votes

Show nested quote +
On September 04 2014 02:56 mderg wrote:
I think the Micchan lynch is our best option right now. Yes, he's an easy target but there's a reason for that. His play didn't really look townie.

##vote: Micchan


batsnacks, is it really that scummy to go after easy targets? You brought this up against bot poofter and kitaman. I don't think going after easy targets is inherently a scummy thing to do. After all they are easy targets because something about them is scummy.

Show nested quote +
On September 04 2014 03:04 Damdred wrote:
##Vote:Micchan

Theres a few things that have led me to this vote. The first being in the way that his posts have gone about. He casually threw more accusations at 3d when pressure on him was the highest. He complained about the thread but never tried to fix it, gave excuses why he did not post yesterday and never posted again. All he has done is lurk, and while lurking is not scummy his play and posts look and feel scummy to me. A couple games ago I got into a situation that was similar in arnie and I let GB slide doing somewhat the same things and I don't want to make that mistake again by letting someone go whos to scummy to be scum.


yeah im lynching damdred tmr.

I can get behind that. For people of any experience level, there shouldn't be too much of a reason to lynch someone that isn't doing anything because it's a policy lynch. They are trying to be defensive.
I will look at Damdred's posting pattern more closely around the end of night (I'll try to be before the end of night in case I die).
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3d12
Profile Joined August 2014
United States100 Posts
September 04 2014 15:16 GMT
#771
On September 04 2014 16:45 Vivax wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 04 2014 14:08 3d12 wrote:
On September 04 2014 13:45 Vivax wrote:
3d12, I quoted two posts of yours regarding bunnies that seem contradictory and generally dont display well how you decide to get the current read on her, can you go into detail about that stuff?


Sure. Quoted here, for posterity.

On September 04 2014 11:31 Vivax wrote:
Specifically:

On September 03 2014 03:07 3d12 wrote:
On September 03 2014 02:22 kitaman27 wrote:
On September 03 2014 02:21 kitaman27 wrote:
On September 02 2014 17:24 3d12 wrote:
Obi is a bit of a mystery, but is starting to look more pink to me. The fact that he was so willing to vote out bat for what was likely a provocation post makes me question his motives, but the fact that he instantly switched his view to Templar after receiving some pressure is a bit more fishy. More data is needed, but the radar is definitely reading slightly pink.


On September 02 2014 17:24 3d12 wrote:
It wasn't who he voted for, it was how he voted and why. By casting a vote in a random direction, one can sit back and observe how people react to that vote. That's not typically Mafia behavior, though I will admit the long-winded post from earlier had me confused as well. All in all, it's a tough read; but if I had to imagine myself in his position, I wouldn't imagine he'd want to make such a big target out of himself on D1 if he were Mafia.


On September 02 2014 04:43 ObiWanShinobi wrote:
Reporting in.

##vote 27nb


So why doesn't your logic that gives you a town read on bat, not apply to obi? Didn't he "cast a vote in a random direction"? You say bat wouldn't want to make a big target of himself as mafia by random voting, but obi would? This seems inconsistent to me.


EBWOP


If you'd asked me this 4 hours in, I'd have read Obi as green as I did bat. His opening vote was similarly provocative, and there was little reason to suspect. Since pushing to have bat plynched though, Obi has pointed fingers at two other parties and is acting much more defensive. I'm not voting yet, but Obi is definitely on my radar.

On September 03 2014 01:38 Damdred wrote:
On September 03 2014 01:30 3d12 wrote:
On September 03 2014 01:11 Damdred wrote:
Actually 3d, why are you ignoring bunnies right now? She has said a couple times that she would be happy to get you out of the game, what do you think of that? Why did you put off commenting on it?


Not worth comment, imo. She said herself that her read on me is only a "gut read," and if people are happy with bandwagoning on a gut feeling to have me lynched, I'll happily /obs and laugh as the scum runs away with the game.


Well I can understand that. However what do you think of bunnies posts besides her gut feeling on you?


What posts? Aside from a suspicious(ly silly) read on poofter and a CTA for a vigi on bat, she hasn't contributed much to the discussion so far. If anything, if the deadline was right now and I had to cast my vote, I think 27nb would be my choice.
Stepping up and trying to publicly read poofter as town based on nothing but troll posts gives me a bad feeling that there may even be a bus straight to LYLO going on under our noses.


On September 04 2014 03:53 3d12 wrote:
Hey everyone, sorry for going MIA yesterday. I got dragged into a bit of a mess IRL that ended up sucking up my night. I lurked the thread on my phone when I could get service, and took down some notes:

Notes from last night:
1. The next person to suggest we ignore missions is getting full-on scumread. This topic keeps coming up, very sporadically, and it feels like a few people are trying to echo the idea across the crowd, so it's more acceptable later. Ignoring the mission concept is completely unacceptable and will only serve to hinder us. Stay vigilant for possible mission-like behaviors, everyone. I get the feeling that they would be rather out-of-the-ordinary missions, otherwise the host could have just as well run vanilla. (Sorry for the meta read there, but if anyone wants to refute that, I'm open to hear your case.)

2. Micchan is giving off a serious mafia vibe to me. Not only did his bandwagoning post seem forced ("Ok here whatever" as if he's trying to seem aloof) but the fact that his only other post yesterday was a defensive misdirection, posted only 20 minutes after he was called out. He's either really bad at this game, scum, too busy IRL to play, or any/all of the above.

3. Poofter's reads (specifically the BMK list) seem solid for the most part, but the way he posted and went after Micchan tells me something isn't right. Specifically, the way he's applying pressure to vote. The reads say town, but the pressure says mafia. Nobody on my town list so far has been pushing for a D1 lynch.

4. My posts usually do come across as apologetic. Not just here either. Blame my mother for giving birth within spitting distance of Canada. Anyone reading into that makes it on my scum list, since it looks like they're conjuring fault out of nothing.


With my personal notes out of the way, let's move on to direct responses:

On September 03 2014 05:23 The_Templar wrote:

On September 03 2014 03:07 3d12 wrote:
On September 03 2014 02:22 kitaman27 wrote:
On September 03 2014 02:21 kitaman27 wrote:
On September 02 2014 17:24 3d12 wrote:
Obi is a bit of a mystery, but is starting to look more pink to me. The fact that he was so willing to vote out bat for what was likely a provocation post makes me question his motives, but the fact that he instantly switched his view to Templar after receiving some pressure is a bit more fishy. More data is needed, but the radar is definitely reading slightly pink.


On September 02 2014 17:24 3d12 wrote:
It wasn't who he voted for, it was how he voted and why. By casting a vote in a random direction, one can sit back and observe how people react to that vote. That's not typically Mafia behavior, though I will admit the long-winded post from earlier had me confused as well. All in all, it's a tough read; but if I had to imagine myself in his position, I wouldn't imagine he'd want to make such a big target out of himself on D1 if he were Mafia.


On September 02 2014 04:43 ObiWanShinobi wrote:
Reporting in.

##vote 27nb


So why doesn't your logic that gives you a town read on bat, not apply to obi? Didn't he "cast a vote in a random direction"? You say bat wouldn't want to make a big target of himself as mafia by random voting, but obi would? This seems inconsistent to me.


EBWOP


If you'd asked me this 4 hours in, I'd have read Obi as green as I did bat. His opening vote was similarly provocative, and there was little reason to suspect. Since pushing to have bat plynched though, Obi has pointed fingers at two other parties and is acting much more defensive. I'm not voting yet, but Obi is definitely on my radar.

On September 03 2014 01:38 Damdred wrote:
On September 03 2014 01:30 3d12 wrote:
On September 03 2014 01:11 Damdred wrote:
Actually 3d, why are you ignoring bunnies right now? She has said a couple times that she would be happy to get you out of the game, what do you think of that? Why did you put off commenting on it?


Not worth comment, imo. She said herself that her read on me is only a "gut read," and if people are happy with bandwagoning on a gut feeling to have me lynched, I'll happily /obs and laugh as the scum runs away with the game.


Well I can understand that. However what do you think of bunnies posts besides her gut feeling on you?


What posts? Aside from a suspicious(ly silly) read on poofter and a CTA for a vigi on bat, she hasn't contributed much to the discussion so far. If anything, if the deadline was right now and I had to cast my vote, I think 27nb would be my choice. Stepping up and trying to publicly read poofter as town based on nothing but troll posts gives me a bad feeling that there may even be a bus straight to LYLO going on under our noses.

If you think bunnies' activities make her lynchable right now you should probably explain the posts she has made...


Up until this post in the thread, bunnies' biggest contribution to the thread was to town claim for the person she's been buddying/bantering with throughout the whole thread. Suspicious? Yes. Lynchable? Not by itself.

I also particularly disliked the way bunnies was gathering information, going from defensive short-posts to prodding people for their reads and then replying to each one-by-one. Generally, townies are more willing to share their reads, instead of needing to base their perspective on other people's reads.

Today's bunnies is a bit different from yesterday's bunnies, in that she's laid out a list of her reads. No information or explanation, but at least she's sharing. I do like that.


On September 03 2014 22:14 27ninjabunnies wrote:
@3d12- you said my read on tehpoofter was silly and based on troll posts, but I think I gave a bit more reasoning than that. why is the read silly to you? What do you think of poofter so far?

Also http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/mafia/465384-mission-mini-mafia?page=17#338<--------- Town tehpoof


The read is silly because it was based entirely on meta. A person's meta can change from game to game. This read came from nothing tangible. For example, it would be impossible for me to have the same read on poof because I've never played with him. Since you and I have been exposed to the same information this game, you are using information I have not been exposed to to make a claim on someone else. That is absolutely 100% fishy, would you agree?

As for my reads on poofter, see point 3 from my "last night's notes" above, and my list of reads below.

On September 03 2014 05:38 mderg wrote:
Anyone else thinking that 3d12 is trying hard to get some newbie bonus? I also don't like how a provocative opening instantly makes him townread people.


Anyone else thinking that mderg is trying hard to get some focus on me? I wasn't the only one to nullread/townread bat yesterday. And yes, traditionally from my live mafia experience, provocative openings are usually townies. It's probably an 80/20 split. I never confirmed him green, but I pointed out that bat looked town from the way he opened. If you have a better reason to scumread him instead, why not post your reasoning?

On September 03 2014 00:05 mderg wrote:
I don't like the batsnacks votes. They seem kinda lazy. Sure, his post didn't make any sense but that's it.


This was all the reasoning I could find in your filter, and it's pretty weak. So, how about it, mderg? Batsnacks: scum or town?


List of reads:

Mafia
ObiWanShinobi (Very non-committal so far, easily switched vote from "troll vote" to batsnacks once it seemed like bat was being scumread. Hesitant to share information. Off-topic posts. Only real redeeming quality so far is calling out kush, very pro-town move.)
mderg (Repeatedly pushing the "ignore the missions" idea, provoking reactions from players while not disclosing any information himself, heavy lurking, generally defensive)
kushm4sta (Tunnel-vision on batsnacks, trying to start a plynch, low activity otherwise)
Micchan (Inactivity, defensive, no thoughts shared, no case built, suspicious bandwagoning)

Mafia-likely (Pink)
TehPoofter (High voting pressure, starting a bandwagon/plynch, very large filter, calls people out on buddying while blatantly attempting to buddy, redeemed so far by good questioning of Templar's motives)
Oatsmaster (Avoiding all talk about missions, redirecting scum claims towards bat and Obi, not posting thoughts openly)

Neutral (White)
The_Templar (Good expression and information-sharing, challenges unnatural ideas/thoughts, sensibly pieces together a motive. Neutral because of weak (meta/defensive) defense about his role)
Vivax (Strange read on poofter, but otherwise constructs very sensible and well-put-together posts pointing out discrepancies. Without the pink vibe from his accusations toward kita and templar, would likely be very town atm.)
Damdred (No real read yet, seems to be gathering information. Is asking the right questions, but not sharing information openly)
27ninjabunnies (Good info balanced out by suspicious buddying/claiming)

Town
batsnacks (I wasn't sure at first, but after your expose on kita, I know you're looking in the right places. Your investigation is solid and you're providing direct responses to your challenges. I highly doubt kita is scum, but I like the way you think.)
kitaman27 (The main source of information so far imo, this guy is posting very good reads and keeping good notes. Only scummy behavior so far is what was pointed out by Vivax, but without further proof I'm willing to let it slide as a poor choice of words)

All in all, I don't like the idea of a plynch. However, I less like the idea of scum lurking the thread and hopping on whatever bandwagon is hot at the time. Let's change that.

##Vote: Micchan



My read on bunnies was based mostly on her read of poofter. Early D1 I didn't like the way she openly read him as town for reasons of personal meta. At the moment, it seemed like the most likely scenario was that she was buddying and attempting to avoid suspect. Later on in the day, she seemed to become more perceptive and started posting reads and sharing info, interacting with more people.

Specifically this post, which was indicative that we're at least reading kita the same way:

On September 03 2014 22:31 27ninjabunnies wrote:
On September 03 2014 22:23 kitaman27 wrote:
On September 03 2014 21:50 27ninjabunnies wrote:
Anything special happened?


On September 03 2014 21:13 batsnacks wrote:
If I'm gambling, I bet kitaman is mafia and his mission is that he has to vote with the majority.

##vote: kitaman27


Thoughts?


Well, Bat's read disagrees with mine. I find you quite townie. Your posts have been pretty good, your reads aren't too bad (though reads arent technically alignment indicative), and your questions have been great. I like where your mind is at. Mostly.

Tho, not sure if bats vote is troll or actually serious. If serious, Im curious as to the conclusion he came up with on you and how you are mafia.


I'm not 100% convinced she's town, but she gained a few town points to me in the twilight hours of D1.


Yea but what I'm still missing here is the contradiction: First you said "If I could lynch someone now it would be bunnies".
In the later post you backtrack from this and say about the same stuff "suspicious, yes, but lynchable no".

Then mention how you didn't like her way of prodding people for reads.

And at the end of this it's suddenly all cool cause she shared her reads at some point.

Your suspicion of her is not as visible at this point, compared to the previous post where you said you would lynch her, and you mention a mix of scummy and not scummy stuff you conclude with by saying something that you like (she's sharing reads of her own).

What also is out of my understanding is that you mention the scummy stuff a person has done and when she stops doing it, it's suddenly all right again. It's like pointing out things that make somebody scum, they are there, they are out and you saw them and picked up on it.

And when that person simply stops doing the mistakes you called her out for, you unscumread her? Just like that?


On September 04 2014 16:47 Vivax wrote:
Oh and with the post you answered to me just now you forgot to mention one of the things you previously found scummy about her: That she was asking people for their reads.

Forgetful about the reasons you found her scummy for?


The funny thing about contradictions is that, if you look hard enough, you can almost always find one.

Since you were asking about my interpretation earlier, allow me to deconstruct this excellent example.

First, I'll re-quote the relevant part above, without nesting, to ensure we're contextually on the same page.

On September 03 2014 03:07 3d12 wrote:
<snip>

What posts? Aside from a suspicious(ly silly) read on poofter and a CTA for a vigi on bat, she hasn't contributed much to the discussion so far. If anything, if the deadline was right now and I had to cast my vote, I think 27nb would be my choice.
Stepping up and trying to publicly read poofter as town based on nothing but troll posts gives me a bad feeling that there may even be a bus straight to LYLO going on under our noses.


Look at the bolded part. What you read as "if I could lynch someone right now it would be bunnies," I read as "there haven't been too many examples of openly scummy behavior yet, so this is my #1 at the moment." By itself, this isn't lynchable, and thus my hesitation to even speculate at a vote, and the wild speculation that ensues in the following sentence. Did I really construe all of that from her filter? No, of course not, there's no factual evidence for it. But it did give me a really bad feeling, especially since I didn't get the same 'provocative' vibe I got from batsnacks.

The bad feeling mostly went away though, when I saw more involvement in the later half of D1. What before was "tell me what happened and why that's important to you" bunnies was now "my reads look like yours" bunnies -- much less trolly/fluffy, (lol fluffy bunnies) much more serious, much more involved in the progress of the game. Her posting a reads list did shift her to neutral in my mind, since I'm still mostly focusing on the people who were using the batsnacks confusion on D1 to slip through more or less unnoticed. (Hint: the ones marked as most likely mafia on my reads list)

To put it more simply, she went from "probably scum" to "probably not scum." Still no solid read, as we're only on N1.

That was fun. For our next exercise in perception, I'd like you to analyze the motive behind this post. Not the content of the post itself, but I'd like you to explain to me why you think 27nb said this:

On September 04 2014 11:43 27ninjabunnies wrote:
So, the conversations here have been pretty interesting..


Seriously, batsnacks needs to die!

There's been like 4 or 5 times Obi has asked BS to give his read as to why there's one between me and him, and BS still has refused to answer.

Why are you avoiding it so much, Bat?

Also, Dam, how can you be reading me, Bat, and 3d as mafia when I've been pushing on Bat, and called 3d scum/neutral scum earlier?


I've got the wit of the staircase with atomic clock precision and the phases of the moon directing all of my decisions, like this...
3d12
Profile Joined August 2014
United States100 Posts
September 04 2014 15:18 GMT
#772
On September 04 2014 21:59 27ninjabunnies wrote:
Actually I'm curious. How is asking for reads scummy?

3d, have you played forum mafia before (you might have answered this before, but I'm lazy and don't want to search)


I did answer this, and Templar is correct. I've never played forum mafia, only RL and that was about 4-5 years ago now. Is there really that much of a disparity in the meta between the two?
I've got the wit of the staircase with atomic clock precision and the phases of the moon directing all of my decisions, like this...
3d12
Profile Joined August 2014
United States100 Posts
September 04 2014 15:29 GMT
#773
On September 04 2014 22:21 27ninjabunnies wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 04 2014 22:05 The_Templar wrote:
On September 04 2014 21:59 27ninjabunnies wrote:
Actually I'm curious. How is asking for reads scummy?

3d, have you played forum mafia before (you might have answered this before, but I'm lazy and don't want to search)

he said he played live mafia a few times, didn't say anything about forum mafia (he didn't know # of mafia) so I guess… no?


Then that leads me to this question: did those who asked for other people's reads always turn out scum?



Always? No. And no, asking for reads is not inherently scummy. I find the "explain why you find this important" behavior pretty scummy for D1, considering there's generally very little to find important before the first lynch. Again, this may be a difference in meta, but typically nobody's opinion is worth asking about on D1 and most people who do ask for opinions at that stage are too wrapped up in their mafia mindset to come up with an opinion of their own. This obviously wasn't the case with you, as you showed later on, but it did make me suspicious when my first posted impression of bat was taken to mean a true town read by a lot of people.
I've got the wit of the staircase with atomic clock precision and the phases of the moon directing all of my decisions, like this...
The_Templar
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
your Country52797 Posts
September 04 2014 15:42 GMT
#774
On September 05 2014 00:18 3d12 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 04 2014 21:59 27ninjabunnies wrote:
Actually I'm curious. How is asking for reads scummy?

3d, have you played forum mafia before (you might have answered this before, but I'm lazy and don't want to search)


I did answer this, and Templar is correct. I've never played forum mafia, only RL and that was about 4-5 years ago now. Is there really that much of a disparity in the meta between the two?

live mafia = flailing around and yelling
forum mafia = lynching people that flail around and yell
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Oatsmaster
Profile Joined October 2012
United States16628 Posts
September 04 2014 16:14 GMT
#775
I cannot proccess the walls of text that 3d12 is writing.
No gg, No skill.
Oatsmaster
Profile Joined October 2012
United States16628 Posts
September 04 2014 16:16 GMT
#776
On September 05 2014 00:29 3d12 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 04 2014 22:21 27ninjabunnies wrote:
On September 04 2014 22:05 The_Templar wrote:
On September 04 2014 21:59 27ninjabunnies wrote:
Actually I'm curious. How is asking for reads scummy?

3d, have you played forum mafia before (you might have answered this before, but I'm lazy and don't want to search)

he said he played live mafia a few times, didn't say anything about forum mafia (he didn't know # of mafia) so I guess… no?


Then that leads me to this question: did those who asked for other people's reads always turn out scum?



Always? No. And no, asking for reads is not inherently scummy. I find the "explain why you find this important" behavior pretty scummy for D1, considering there's generally very little to find important before the first lynch. Again, this may be a difference in meta, but typically nobody's opinion is worth asking about on D1 and most people who do ask for opinions at that stage are too wrapped up in their mafia mindset to come up with an opinion of their own. This obviously wasn't the case with you, as you showed later on, but it did make me suspicious when my first posted impression of bat was taken to mean a true town read by a lot of people.

Does this sound like a newbie writing it to anyone else?

No gg, No skill.
kushm4sta
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States8878 Posts
September 04 2014 16:18 GMT
#777
so oats you are saying what 3d is saying is scummy? i read it and it makes sense to me.
OMGUS.net, kush sex blogs every friday night
Oatsmaster
Profile Joined October 2012
United States16628 Posts
September 04 2014 16:31 GMT
#778
Nah, it just doesnt sound like someone playing their first game of mafia. Lotta meta in that post. Like mafia stratagies and tendencies.
No gg, No skill.
Oatsmaster
Profile Joined October 2012
United States16628 Posts
September 04 2014 16:31 GMT
#779
*forum mafia.
No gg, No skill.
The_Templar
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
your Country52797 Posts
September 04 2014 16:40 GMT
#780
On September 05 2014 01:16 Oatsmaster wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 05 2014 00:29 3d12 wrote:
On September 04 2014 22:21 27ninjabunnies wrote:
On September 04 2014 22:05 The_Templar wrote:
On September 04 2014 21:59 27ninjabunnies wrote:
Actually I'm curious. How is asking for reads scummy?

3d, have you played forum mafia before (you might have answered this before, but I'm lazy and don't want to search)

he said he played live mafia a few times, didn't say anything about forum mafia (he didn't know # of mafia) so I guess… no?


Then that leads me to this question: did those who asked for other people's reads always turn out scum?



Always? No. And no, asking for reads is not inherently scummy. I find the "explain why you find this important" behavior pretty scummy for D1, considering there's generally very little to find important before the first lynch. Again, this may be a difference in meta, but typically nobody's opinion is worth asking about on D1 and most people who do ask for opinions at that stage are too wrapped up in their mafia mindset to come up with an opinion of their own. This obviously wasn't the case with you, as you showed later on, but it did make me suspicious when my first posted impression of bat was taken to mean a true town read by a lot of people.

Does this sound like a newbie writing it to anyone else?


No... It really doesn't -.-
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