Newbie Mini Mafia XVI - Page 19

On June 12 2012 06:44 ShiaoPi wrote:

Now on another note I would like to alert you guys to KtheZ:
-His filter is in the beginning really full of moderating, contentless posts.
( It was more like attempting to start discussion. Without there being content in the beginning I decided to spark discussion and talk about policy.)
-He had that weird "lynch for info" post
( This "lynch for info" post was explained already to s0Lstice. The post was meant to explain what useful information would arise, after the lynch. It was not to influence the vote, more to prepare for the future. )
-What struck me as weird is that he states to be willing to switch to ha236 but he is absent at lynchtime, so he would not have been able to fulfill that intention anyway.... His last post is about 30 mins before deadline and then he pops back in well beyond deadline, saying he was "away for a while"
( There were already 5 votes on ha236 (majority) so I felt it was safe to leave.)
It is still not enough to make me want to vote him but, I'll be keeping an eye on him
FoS:KtheZ

On June 12 2012 07:59 s0Lstice wrote:
my case on KtheZ

1) His filter has a lot of garbage. He has 6 posts about nothing but policy. These lead in to 3 posts where he is basically directing traffic. He posts percentages for scum reads, sometimes accompanied with reasoning (grush), other times without reasoning (ha236).
My filter is NOT full of garbage, as you seem to insist. A beginning talk about policy was to inspire discussion when there was none. Both my percentage posts were accompanied by reasoning (I provided reasoning when I provided a percentage for ha236).

Then there is this eye-sore: Gee thanks, I put effort into that
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I've talked about this post some already. It's scummy as hell. Here we are bearing down on lynch time, and here he uses all these words to talk about stuff that doesn't matter in the slightest until after we see the flip. I'll say it again, this post screams 'look at me I'm being useful!'
The post was mainly about people's stances toward the two lynch-ees and their stances toward other people. I had expected either grush or ha to get lynched, so creating a post for future use would be useful.
That's the common theme to be grasped here; there is a whole lot of non-contributing contributions in his filter. By itself it could just be bad town play, but keep it in mind as we move forward.

2) Scumhunting. Let's look and see how he has been pursuing the win condition.

His strongest read is against grush57, who is far and away the easiest person to make a token case on for scum. A lot of people were on his ass for his play, and it was very easy to just blend in here. I want to look specifically at KtheZ's suspicions on grush:
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First thing I notice is the rambling lack of focus. He play-by-plays and takes the time to compliment Release. The important thing to notice however is his stance. He goes from 'this is a definite scum tell' Putting words into my mouth. I said that this may have been something a scum would say. to 'slighty scummy' This is the same stance I took from the beginning: That grush seems slightly scummy. to '44-55%' chance of a scum flip You said percentages were bad! But 44-55% is slightly scummy. At the end of that sequence do you really have any idea what his stance is? How does slightly scummy translate to a coin-flip scum possibility?
First off you contradict yourself by first discrediting use of percentages, and then using my own percentages as evidence against me. Slightly scummy IS that percentage scum to me. What kind of percentage would slightly scummy be in your opinion? (Of course, we shouldn't be even talking about percentages because they are "obviously anti-town".
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Extremely soft pressure. It wasn't meant to be pressure, explained next The point is poor to boot....attacking someone who has soft defended you means basically nothing. You go after your reads regardless of what their opinion of you is.
My main point was not that he was attacking someone who soft defended him. It was that grush finally attacked someone, for the first time in the thread, and I was pointing out that significance.
Following this he votes, and his vote stays put throughout the mislynch of Zen_Man.
Cause I was gone and had thought the lynch set
Now let's look at his opinions on another prominent case that was going on: ha236.




Almost no explanation for his read. Hardly a read, I pointed him out as an individual to take into note. He dances around this issue...he doesn't think ha is scummy, but will vote for him to ensure the lynch. Ok, that's fine. He doesn't stop there though. He justifies a vote for ha for an entirely different, opposing reason, by saying my and Release's arguments have swayed him enough for ha to be considered a 'reasonable second to grush.' I have no idea what his actual opinion is after this. Is he voting on one of his town-reads to ensure a lynch, or did the arguments sway him?
What? Stop making baseless assumptions. How was ha236 one of my town reads? I had readjusted my view of ha based on your arguments, as I said.
The only other thing of note is the bandwagon on The_Zen_Man. But again he doesn't come down hard on the issue, it leaves him 'suspicious enough to at least FoS him.'
Why is this of note? We had targets that were much more defined so I chose to just FoS him and leave him for later.
The bottom-line is KtheZ has taken the safe route in all of his actions so far. His firmest stance is on grush57, and as I've shown, it really isn't all that firm. He is playing it safe because he doesn't want anything to bite him in the ass later. He doesn't particularly care for hunting scum because he IS scum.
How have I taken the safe route? I was one of the people to push for a grush lynch, which is definitely scum-hunting. My stance on grush was firm, that he was "slightly scummy", but also the person most likely to be scum in my book.
3) One last point, but it's a good one. I want to point out how he behaved following Zen_Man's flip:



There, that post has some fire in it. Notice how out of place it is within the rest of his filter...it just doesn't match. Nowhere else does he really show any venom. This mismatch is a scum-tell. Scum like to come in after a mislynch and upbraid people, they feel it makes them look town. I'll even cite Ver's newbie guide, have a look:


The case he was talking about was similar to this one. A mild mannered politician like player suddenly showing up after a mislynch and being uncommonly firm, making everyone else feel guilty.
I leave for a while and somehow I return to a completely changed lynch vote? Of course I would be indignant! As you saw in my lynch info post I had no idea that a Zen_Man lynch would occur, and people just suddenly bandwagoning on him and mislynching near the deadline struck a nerve.
Summary:
-Lots of filler and pseudo-contributions in KtheZ's filter
-Politician like, inconsistant, scum-hunting. Top scumread is the easiest case in the game
-Sudden change in persona following the mislynch
Explained
I feel pretty good about this read. Release, I know you are after ha236, but please consider what I said. That goes for everyone else too, let me know what you think.