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DarthPunk
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Australia10854 Posts
September 30 2012 13:44 GMT
#481
EBWOP: Sorry about the formatting I tired to fix it but with all the nested quotes etc. It was impossible. The key point is Debears tried to limit the damage from an association case before kush flipped red and there was anything to defend. Almost Like he knew Kush would flip red Right. Add this to the countless things in the case against him. I am pretty sure he is scum. Not as sure as I was with kush but still reasonably certain.

"If I wanted your opinion, I'd have told you what it was."
DarthPunk
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Australia10854 Posts
September 30 2012 13:46 GMT
#482
Anyway I will try and stay wake for these incoming posts. But If I happen to fall asleep and then I am dead in the morning; GO Town!!! We had an amazing start. lets turn this into a victory. <3
"If I wanted your opinion, I'd have told you what it was."
Djodref
Profile Joined September 2012
France3332 Posts
September 30 2012 13:57 GMT
#483
Hello guys !

I understand your suspicions but I'm just a town newbie with a lot of bad posts. I'll try my best to step up and post cases.
If you don't mind, I'm going to build a case on debears before addressing your attacks because I feel I might screwing up myself more if I spend too much time defending your cases against me. But I can shortly explain my backflip on Kush.

At the beginning of the game, I was not confident at all to nail a scum on day 1. I have even been called for it but, as a newbie, I didn't think I could have a correct read on someone (be it town or scum) and was really afraid of a mislynch. So, at that time, when Darth found Kush scumslip, I was not ready to believe it was so easy to find a scum. That's why I bought kush's explanations for his scumslip. After that I went out and slept and when I came back to the thread I found all the crazy posts from kush and also SDM case.
I realized at this point that the slip was indeed a scum slip. Also I realized that not being confident is bad for town so I boost up my confidence. I called the scumteam kush/debears/corrosion and also was more and more sure of kush being red.

corrosion
Profile Joined February 2011
Norway29 Posts
September 30 2012 14:43 GMT
#484
I'm going to explain my actions on the second part of D1. I had just made a post trying to induce Remedy to post more, so we could get a better read on him. I might have come across rude, but I wanted to get his attention. Because I hadn't posted much content myself, I decided that I was going to start writing a case on Darth that I had been thinking about
doing earlier.

Before saying more about the post, I'll specify that this happened after Kush's scumslip and after his explanation. When the slip was pointed out, I thought that the "townie statement" could just be implying that he had a town read on Darth. I think someone later implied that it was a contradiction because he had earlier accused Darth of being scum, but I don't find
any prior statement from Kush that actually says that Darth is scum (maybe others did read something between the lines).

I've read that mafia don't usually make blatant slips, so I was hesitant. Kush mentioning his streak earlier also seemed blatant. It's not really good town strategy to simulate your play from your last scum game, but with Kush I thought it
might be his way of applying game theory to stay consistent no matter what role he is.

Then I saw his explanation, and it didn't fit the defense I would have expected if my earlier assumption had been correct. At this point I thought that it was a good chance that Kush was scum. I did not find the use of the word "townie" natural. I guess the main reason that I didn't totally stick with that read, was this post from Darth:

On September 28 2012 21:23 DarthPunk wrote:
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On September 28 2012 21:18 Djodref wrote:
@corrosion

I'm actually working in Korea so I don't enjoy so much free time . But a big national holiday is coming this week end so I should be able to participate to the thread and finish to read all the guides.

@everyone
This also means party time ! I'm currently headed to get drunk all night so you shouldn't be hearing from me until tomorrow 12.00 pm KST.

Also I'm accepting Kush explanation for calling Darth a townie but it would be better for him to refrain calling someone a townie or a scum without explanations later on...


Wow. Really? That was not an explanation at all. It was a slip, and now everyone believes his weak as shit explanation.

Anyway this is obviously going nowhere. And it is becoming a distraction at this point.

##Unvote

##FoS: Kush


I felt like this was a strange reaction, and a somewhat bad explanation. I especially thought that the point about "everybody believes his weak as shit explanation" seemed strange because it seemed to me that only a few people had said that, and since those people might as well have been mafia I thought the reasoning for unvoting was weak. Then he goes on to FoS
Alsn. This flipflopping made me uncertain of his motives, so I decided to try to make my "case" on him.

The case itself has been discussed already. I'll address a few things:

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"Maybe this was all intentional. Suppose he suddenly remembered that game. He might not have wanted people to look at those games earlier, but now he realized that if he posted them he would be able to establish a town read on himself."

I was going to write maybe instead of suppose, but just then I remembered that indecisiveness isn't good for town. I see now that I went overboard with that paragraph, and should probably have dropped it altogether.


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If Kush hadn't made that slip, I think the derailing argument would have looked strong. Now it doesn't look so strong, because we've actually gotten new information. I'm not saying that I'm sure the scum slip is an actual slip, but if it is and it results in a succesful lynch, I think town got very lucky. Scum usually wouldn't slip in such an obvious manner.

When I say town would be lucky, I meant that we would be lucky that Kush made such a huge slip. It seems now that Darth did a very good job at exploiting Kush's tendencies, so it's hardly luck alone that led to a successful lynch.


While writing the post, I was starting to get tired. It was getting late and it had been a long day. Instead of finishing analyzing Darth's filter, I decided to stop. I did feel the pressure to post something after my comment to Remedy, and I thought: "Fuck it. Newbies were encouraged to post, so I'll just post what I have and see what feedback I get."

Voting:

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On September 29 2012 21:59 corrosion wrote:
Let me just state the reasons that my vote is on Kush right now:

1) I think his explanation of the slip was poor. If he had given a good explanation, I might have believed him.
2) I've been thinking about who would benefit if the result is a no-lynch. I'm thinking mafia is likely to benefit the most from a no-lynch.

Right now, I think that there's more than a 25 % chance that Kush is scum. Therefore, I'm voting for him. I'm not sure if any of these points are original. I'm having trouble keeping up with the thread, because I tend to get hanged up in details.


I've already explained my first point. The second point was poorly worded. Here's my thought process:

I was thinking about the majority lynch, since I hadn't watched any games with this mechanism before. My thinking was that there was a reasonable chance that Kush was mafia so even if I had reason to vote on another person that I found even scummier, the wagon on that person could lead to a no-lynch. I was also unsure how the missing vote from Lesrah would factor into this. If someone needs 7 of 11 active votes to get lynched, the chance of a no-lynch would be rather big. I guess I could have asked about this, but I was unsure how that question would be interpreted.

The reason I state that I think mafia would benefit from a no-lynch and my mention of 25 %, was that I was thinking that it would be a lot worse for mafia to lose a power role(a possible outcome) than for town to lose a vanilla. Kush hadn't made any attempt at claiming a blue role. 25 % is the percentage of mafia in this setup if I read correctly. This doesn't take into account my own alignment, but I figured that my earlier theory of power roles would compensate for that. I'm estimating that I was actually around 50 % certain that Kush was scum at this point in time.


Here are some references of early posts regarding postin:

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On September 28 2012 07:41 Stutters695 wrote:
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On September 28 2012 07:08 Sonic Death Monkey wrote:
On September 28 2012 06:58 kushm4sta wrote:
@sonic
getting everyone's thoughts on lurker policy is important. Don't argue about it but share your views on the matter please..


Encouraging newbie towns to post is more important than typing out the same things I've said about lurker policy in XXVI and XXVII yet again:

If we don't have a good scum case (lurker or active) by late d1, we lynch the most suspicious lurker. We should obviously be looking to avoid that scenario by scum hunting.

That's really all that needs to be said as far as I'm concerned.


Agreed but, regrettably, there isn't really anything else to talk about this early. To second his point about townies being active, don't get intimidated if you aren't really sure how to make a case and stop posting. Long cases aren't the only way to catch scum so if you feel overwhelmed sick around and ask questions. Demand answers for things you find wrong. Even if it doesn't directly catch a scum it provides insight into both you and the person you question. Silence allows the scum to hide very easily without having to do anything.


Here, Sonic and Stutters advice newbies to post.

On September 28 2012 11:34 debears wrote:
@Darthpunk

Do you have links to all your previous games?

I see validity in your points. However, I need to see how you've played before. You are coming off really strong really early.

and @Kush

Tunneling does not mean only looking at the people under pressure. It means that we should only post cases with substance at that point. Someone going off tangent on some stupid duck hunt with no reason and distracting the attention of the town is bad at that point. If you do feel suspicious of someone but don't have a good case, just keep it on word and save it for when evidence does come out.


Here, Debears advices against posting cases that are weak ("at that point" refers to the second half of D1). So maybe I didn't pay enough attention on Debears' advice, and just thought about Stutter's post. Interestingly, this is the same post that Debears made that I overlooked when making my "previous game history" argument against Darth.


Whew. I'm gonna take a little break. Psssht (Tychus quote)
qft
Djodref
Profile Joined September 2012
France3332 Posts
September 30 2012 14:46 GMT
#485
Ok now concerning debears, I'm going to focus on one point : his scumslip !

On September 29 2012 01:55 debears wrote:
@Djoref

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On September 28 2012 15:22 Djodref wrote:
@DarthPunk

For your information, i consider the comments of debears on my posts legitimate. Let me say that I even don't like them. Currently reading the guides and older game analysis.


Please pm marv for help. The coaches are great


I know this point not new and debears has already addressed it but I would like to point out the way he addressed it.
First this slip might not be as evident as Kush's one but it is one nevertheless. The same way kush knew Darth was town, debears also know I'm town is because he is mafia !
For the people suspecting me, please consider this post written by a town Djodref ^^
Debears didn't write "Get some help from the coaches !", he wrote me to get help from the town coach because he knows I am town.

Now please have a look on how he answered me when Omniscient asked him about it

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On September 29 2012 03:28 debears wrote:
@Omniscient

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On September 29 2012 02:17 Omniscient4983 wrote:
On September 29 2012 01:55 debears wrote:
@Djoref

On September 28 2012 15:22 Djodref wrote:
@DarthPunk

For your information, i consider the comments of debears on my posts legitimate. Let me say that I even don't like them. Currently reading the guides and older game analysis.


Please pm marv for help. The coaches are great


So you're confirming him town?


No. I am trying to help a newbie get into the swing of things. Last game, there was a large portion of lurkers, and it destroyed the game atmosphere. If he gets help and posts more quality, we have a much better read on him.





He denies it right away and gives a town motivation for his post. But then he starts talking about lurkers. I think lurkers and newbies are two different things and he was trying to divert everybody with this line.

After that I give my guess on a kush/debears/corrosion scumteam and call him a scum by association in the light of Z-BosoN case against him. Here is his answer to my post. By the way, I asked him at this time what was his read on me but I should have ask directly "how do you know I am town?"

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On September 29 2012 15:21 debears wrote:
@djo

What parts of his case specifically do you believe?

His main case against me is contradiction. Look at my case against thrawn in the last game. What was the main point of that argument? Inconsistency. Its an easy point for scum to point out.

There are two possibilities for kushvin my eyes
1) a mafiab tryingbto pity his way out off a lynch
2) a townie acting likeva total noob with accusations against him.

Which has less assumptions? Number 1.

My problen with the scum by associstion is the case that i was defendung kush earky on. That us false i was trying ti communicate ti darth that his reasoning wad based off such a strong s assumption early in the game. In fact, I'd say that z-bosons case against me is the same. He looks at the mafia side only, which to me is a indicator of mafia. I can't make a case dur to drinking and being on my phone.

My read in you is that you are sheeping onto cases. I don't like it because i did the same.

Why do you think i would refer you to a coach? What are the townie and mafia motivations behind it.

@z-boson

The same question stated the line above refers to you


He doesn't want to give a clear answer on his read about me. What does it mean that I'm sheeping onto cases ? I think it was too dangerous for him to pronounce himself about my alignment due to his previous slip. I asked him why he directed me to marv and answer by a question because he cannot afford to be transparent on this subject.

I would like to add one more thing but it's non-related to the scumslip.

[QUOTE]On September 29 2012 13:47 debears wrote:
@darthpunk

Currently, you should know one of my suspects based on a heated discussion btw him and me. The other i am waiting for a few more posts to give him a fair opportunity. The second one is a wildcard. Tomorrow i will build a casebfor him when I'm at my computer and in a better ba situation to make a suitable case

In this post, he promises a case which has never come. I don't think it's big but it adds up.

Also he is basically OMGUSing Z-BosoN while defending himself from his case.

Conclusion

I'm also for a debears lynch for tomorrow
Djodref
Profile Joined September 2012
France3332 Posts
September 30 2012 15:03 GMT
#486
I would like to add some digging I have been doing in kush's filter to add more material to my case on debears.

Here is a post where our great mafia player Kush defends debears from to case of Z-BosoN

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On September 29 2012 05:46 kushm4sta wrote:
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On September 29 2012 05:29 Z-BosoN wrote:
All right, I went through debears filter now, and I'm confident he is scum. Let's go through this more carefully now.
His first post:

On September 28 2012 11:05 debears wrote:
Lol. Kush already going at it.

Hey guys. I'm debears. This is my second game ever of mafia. I have a couple of things to add:

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On September 28 2012 09:18 DarthPunk wrote:
On September 28 2012 09:10 Z-BosoN wrote:
On September 28 2012 08:43 DarthPunk wrote:
It is not impossible to find scum on the first day. Policy lynches get you no info, you are most likely going to hit a townie, and you end up in the same position the next day minus 2 town. @Djodref your 'day plan' is unnecessary. Scum hunt, vote for your top scum read and everything else will fall into place.


After LVII I'm rather liking the idea of policy lynches, in extreme cases.

Killing lurkers in a lurker-infested town, for example, is something I'm inclined to agree on. If the town proves itself active, then whoever proves himself scummier will occupy the noose.

Given that this is a newbie game, scums are generally more scared to post. While that is a general tendency, I don't agree with mass posters being cleared right off the bat, even if their posts seem meaningful.

What I suggest in this game, is that people read. From my few games, much time is usually wasted discussing things that have not been read properly.

On September 28 2012 06:56 Sonic Death Monkey wrote:
Cool, we're on. Pretty bad timing though, I'm off to bed and then I've got a day at uni before I can really start posting. I hope to God when I get back we've moved past the lurker policy discussion. My message to newbies: the best way for you to clear yourself is to post a lot. Don't post just for the sake of posting though, that'll make you look like scum because posting for the sake of posting is what scum do.


This is a rather useless post. Newbie towns want to scumhunt. Newbie scum want to look like they are scumhunting. That =/= posting a lot but not for the sake of posting, or whatever you meant.

And please tell me, what do you mean? You say you hope to have moved past the lurker discussion, and yet you are telling people to post a lot? In my eyes you are telling people not to lurk because that will make them seem scummy. It seems to me that you are indirectly stating your views on lurkers despite openly saying you don't want to talk about them.









Meh. Don't like lurker policy lynches at all. It just tells scum: Post. and your safe. I have read every post so far as scummy and I don't see SDM's post as more or less scummy than the others.

But posting a lot will let people get a good read on you so you should 100% be doing this as town. And then if all the townies are posting you force scum to. Which makes it much easier to nab them also.

SO. Post a lot if you are town. You make scum uncomfortable and facilitate town reads on yourself and scum reads on scum.




You also clutter the thread if you just post alot. Let me specify. Post quality as often as you can. That means reread the thread and build good cases. One liners don't do much good. Cases with multiple quotes and a few sentences of explanation per quote are good (most of the time).

Also, USE YOUR COACHES TOWN. Thrawn pmed Hapa over 50 times last game and he had the best town performance. That isn't a coincidence.

@Kush

I don't like the way you are starting off this game kush. It's eerily similar as last game when you were mafia. You mention you're deathless streak, nk, and your scummy meta without anyone bringing it up. You should know that I most likely know you're trends better than anyone else in this game.

The only difference between this game and last is that you have engaged in a flame war with Darth this game, which is unhelpful to our town.

FOS Kush


@everyone

One more thing:

Feel free to accuse and build cases on anyone you want for the first 24 hours. However, let's start tunneling for the second 24 hours. Also, I would like everyone to start considering a lurker (in your head) once we hit the second 24 hours as a backup. If we get close to the lynch deadline, and there are no scummy candidates, feel free to post a good case on which lurker would be the best candidate.


First of all, his "I want town to win!!" post telling town to use their coaches. He then FoS's Kush, due to the fact that he's playing a similar game as the one he was scum. He says that DP + kush flame war is bad for the town, but doesn't attack Darthpunk, probably because he finds kush to be more scummy looking. Now, from a townie perspective, what does debear want? Information in order to lynch kush, as he pointed a FOS mostly based on a meta read. But suddenly, towards darthpunk:

snip --You could also say that you are too convinced in your reasons. What I am cautious of at this point is that you stated directly before the game that you were after kush if he plays like he has in his past 3 games. I feel like that may be clouding your judgement in this situation.

Our main goal is to lynch mafia. Yes, kush has said some scummy things. However, I'm not gonna go around parading this early saying "kush is scum. Kush is scum. OMFG".

Also, let the man defend himself instead of trying to rally everyone active behind your cause so early. If he is scummy, the votes will come.


He is defensive towards kush. That's not how townies think. While I agree that DP is a bit overboard on kush, I don't agree that he failed to give arguments as to why he thinks that is so. A townie with a FOS on someone will want to deal with the arguments first. He doesn't do that, and suddenly becomes defensive on Kush. He says, later:

I'm not defending him as much as I'm trying to tell you that you are going overboard right now. You don't have to rush in annointing him scum.


He is more bothered by DPs certainty than by his actual arguments. Inconsistency #1.

He then comes up with two cases. One against me, and one against Djoref:



@Boson

+ Show Spoiler +
On September 28 2012 09:10 Z-BosoN wrote:
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On September 28 2012 08:43 DarthPunk wrote:
It is not impossible to find scum on the first day. Policy lynches get you no info, you are most likely going to hit a townie, and you end up in the same position the next day minus 2 town. @Djodref your 'day plan' is unnecessary. Scum hunt, vote for your top scum read and everything else will fall into place.


After LVII I'm rather liking the idea of policy lynches, in extreme cases.

Killing lurkers in a lurker-infested town, for example, is something I'm inclined to agree on. If the town proves itself active, then whoever proves himself scummier will occupy the noose.

Given that this is a newbie game, scums are generally more scared to post. While that is a general tendency, I don't agree with mass posters being cleared right off the bat, even if their posts seem meaningful.

What I suggest in this game, is that people read. From my few games, much time is usually wasted discussing things that have not been read properly.

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On September 28 2012 06:56 Sonic Death Monkey wrote:
Cool, we're on. Pretty bad timing though, I'm off to bed and then I've got a day at uni before I can really start posting. I hope to God when I get back we've moved past the lurker policy discussion. My message to newbies: the best way for you to clear yourself is to post a lot. Don't post just for the sake of posting though, that'll make you look like scum because posting for the sake of posting is what scum do.


This is a rather useless post. Newbie towns want to scumhunt. Newbie scum want to look like they are scumhunting. That =/= posting a lot but not for the sake of posting, or whatever you meant.

And please tell me, what do you mean? You say you hope to have moved past the lurker discussion, and yet you are telling people to post a lot? In my eyes you are telling people not to lurk because that will make them seem scummy. It seems to me that you are indirectly stating your views on lurkers despite openly saying you don't want to talk about them.



Boson, please try not to read too hard into a person's very first posts and make something out of nothing. It is pretty clear what sonic was saying. He wants newbies to post so that they don't get grouped under the lurker corral that usually follows up later. Last game, we had lurkers galore and it really messed up the town.

Also, you mention that his post is useless. Now I will examine your two other posts in terms of uselessness.


On September 28 2012 09:12 Z-BosoN wrote:
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On September 28 2012 09:01 kushm4sta wrote:
On September 28 2012 08:34 DarthPunk wrote:
On September 28 2012 06:58 kushm4sta wrote:
@sonic
getting everyone's thoughts on lurker policy is important. Don't argue about it but share your views on the matter please..

No it's not. It is simply a mechanism to get the discussion going and allows scum to seem to participate and to potentially mislynch an inactive townie. Any more talk of policy will get you FoS'd.


Sorry but who appointed this asshole boss?
you get people's thoughts on lurker policy, so you can catch them deviating from it later and question them about it.


And why are you that scared of a FOS?


A one-liner. A question that really doesn't accomplish anything. In other words, a useless post. Also, your next post doesn't address his response although he responded right after and you posted within 30 minutes of his response in a pretty light thread.

On September 28 2012 09:43 Z-BosoN wrote:
@DP

Saying we will lynch lurkers is one thing. Deciding whether a lurker should die later at day two is another.
What I said is I'm inclined to lynch a lurker if there aren't better choices, not that we will 100% lynch a lurker.

@Stutters

I'd like to see more posts from you. In XXIV you showed you were capable of making decent posts as town, so I encourage you to post eve more here.

@kush

What's your view on darthpunk? You said you don't like his coldness, but you don't like it in a "he's scum" sort of way?


Yet again, nothing of substance here. You go more in depth about semantics (is that the right word I'm looking for?) about lynching lurkers and lynching lurkers at day two.

Second, you call out stutters, who has already been warned by others and most likely the mods for no reason this early in the game.

Finally, two sentences, two questions going on about the exact wording of kush's statements.

It sounded like before the game you had stated that you have played in multiple games. Is that true?

For someone who is telling other people to not post useless posts, you aren't doing a good job of it yourself. Looks more like you are trying to just be active while off the radar. In other words, you are a semi-active lurker who has bad post quality. Sounds like characteristics of a certain alignment.


@Djoref


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On September 28 2012 08:51 Djodref wrote:
@Darthpunk

Nevermind you look just more confident to get a scum on D1 than me.


Regarding my plan, I think we need general directions to follow because of the majority lynch.
It is a way to gather everybody around 2-3 suspicious players and secure a lynch. I'm assuming everyone agree on a no-lynch to be stupid.


Djoref, I don't like that statement at all. That's the second post you bring up about the likelihood of lynching a townie d1. As town, you should never have that mentality. I would probably less likely to bring this up if you were a total nooby. However, you said you "know Kush's meta" which means you have some decent understanding of the game for a noob.

By saying this, it seems that you are setting yourself an excuse to be indecisive later in the day when the lynch voting comes around. Alone, it isn't much. However, your other posts don't help.


On September 28 2012 08:44 Djodref wrote:
@Darthpunk

Considering that we are likely to lynch a town on D1, don't you think it's a lesser wrong to get rid of someone inactive ?
Inactivity means no scumhunt and room to hide for the mafia...


After playing mafia last game, I feel like heavy lurking is a bad play for mafia. It puts too much pressure on you are as a scum. Instead, posting lightly without much substance is more mafia indicative.

Yet again, I feel you are just looking like you are contributing without saying much.

Especially when you already covered your thoughts in a previous post.

On September 28 2012 08:36 Djodref wrote:
Hello everybody !

About me

This is my first game ever on forum but I've been playing on SC2mafia and also irl. But I've been lurking on the TL Mafia forum for a while (so I know your meta kush^^) and I decided to join this newbie game.
I'm also a French guy and I live in Korea so my english is not on top and it's going to ne difficult for me to be around at deadline (5.00 am KST).

Lurker policy

From the games I've seen, unless you have a golden scumslip on d1, it's very difficult to lynch a scum the very first day.
So I have no problem ending up voting for the most suspicious lurker at the end of the day. I define most suspicious lurker as a semi-lurker just trying to blend in.


Day Plan

I don't think to be able to be around for the first deadline so I would like to propose a day plan to secure a lynch as we are using a majority vote. First 24 hours to find lynch candidates while scumhunting and next 20 hours to decide who is the scummiest. Last 4 hours to consolidate the vote or switch to a lurker.

Please discuss


Notice how you are just repeating points? It isn't helpful to us.

Next post

On September 28 2012 11:09 Djodref wrote:
@Kush

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thank you now I won't be nk


Was it also a joke ?
How can you be so sure you are not going to be NKed ?


A two sentence, two question post. I don't like these. They are worthless. Also, this question came quite a bit later after darthpunk already was asking questions about joking. You seem to be sheeping onto darth's case against kush.

On September 28 2012 11:53 Djodref wrote:
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On September 28 2012 11:22 kushm4sta wrote:

Because the most active townie is tunneling me?



I would also like to hear you explanations about this specific part. I don't have a read on Darth on the moment considering he has only been hard tunneling you. As you said yourself you have a scummy meta so you are an easy target for early game to put pressure on.

So what makes him so much town ?



Yet again, this post is just repeating what darth is saying. Another question. I don't like this.

Your early posts are indicative of a semi-active scum. Sheeping, question posts, and rehashing things already said multiple times.



Notice the similarity between the two. He attacks us for asking questions (later on denies that they provide any discussion whatsoever), and falls into the same "semi-active lurker" category he's sniffing about. I will ignore the quality of his arguments, which I personally think are horrible, and will look more towards their similarity.
From his case against me:

A one-liner. A question that really doesn't accomplish anything. In other words, a useless post. Also, your next post doesn't address his response although he responded right after and you posted within 30 minutes of his response in a pretty light thread.


For someone who is telling other people to not post useless posts, you aren't doing a good job of it yourself. Looks more like you are trying to just be active while off the radar. In other words, you are a semi-active lurker who has bad post quality. Sounds like characteristics of a certain alignment.


From his case against Djoref:

A two sentence, two question post. I don't like these. They are worthless. Also, this question came quite a bit later after darthpunk already was asking questions about joking. You seem to be sheeping onto darth's case against kush.


Your early posts are indicative of a semi-active scum. Sheeping, question posts, and rehashing things already said multiple times.


See the similarity, especially the bolded part? It seems that he has this "semi-active scum" cake recipe that he is using to sniff out scum. He also calls us out on our posting quality, in my case saying it is bad.

I won't address his next post towards me because I've already done so, and because it doesn't increase his scumminess , as "bad cases =/= scum" (although it pisses me off).

Anyways, now to the main stuff. He has a case against me and Djoref, for pretty much the same reasoning. Yet, check out what his next post on Djoref is:

On September 29 2012 01:55 debears wrote:
@Djoref

On September 28 2012 15:22 Djodref wrote:
@DarthPunk

For your information, i consider the comments of debears on my posts legitimate. Let me say that I even don't like them. Currently reading the guides and older game analysis.


Please pm marv for help. The coaches are great


Wtf??? What ?? Where is his case against Djoref?? He goes from a scummy-looking sheep with one liners to a "townie who should pm marv for help"? Could he have forgotten that Djoref was one of his main suspicions? Inconsistency #2


Note that I no longer think that his defense of SDM is scummy. I've gone over that a few times and I admit that it can also come from a townie perspective.

To summarize, here are the main inconsistencies in his play that scream to me SCUM:
1) He had a FOS on kush, then hurried on to defend him, in the manner I've shown above. I cannot fathom for the life of me having a FOS on someone and suddenly feel like I have to address an exaggeration on that person before I actually address the case.
2) He completely absolves Djoref for absolutely no reason. Townies do not throw around suspicions only to insta-drop them.
3) The other supporting arguments I've shown above.

debears is SCUM!

##vote debears


Hi z bozon.
Inconsistencies do not make someone scum.
Also it's quite funny how you are so certain this early in the game.
To summarize this awesome post: your case is not strong. you are overconfident in your scumread.



This one speaks for itself. I believe Kush was still trying to play seriously at this time and tried to defend his scummate.

But here are also these two horrible posts

On September 29 2012 07:44 kushm4sta wrote:
debears I saved you bro...scumteam 4 lyfe


He did this one no so much after voting for himself so I guess he was in full troll mode at this point. He was still attacking Z-BosoN on his "stupid" case. I think he purely gamethrew by seeing two scums nailed so fast in this game.

On September 29 2012 12:14 kushm4sta wrote:
debears hf you are dying next.


And this one just before admitting he was scum. Given kush character, I could imagine him giving his scum partner like this. I'll be sad if it turns out to be true they are just to much elements pointing into this direction.


Alsn
Profile Joined February 2008
Sweden995 Posts
September 30 2012 15:10 GMT
#487
Ok, I'm about to start typing up a post, although it might take a while. I'll preface it with the point that I have been looking at the dispute between debears and Z-BosoN and I find it to be genuine. As such, I'm working under the theory that at the most, one of them is scum and that it's not improbable that neither are scum, however at this time I'm feeling like debears' side of the argument has been a little too focused on defending himself. But I will address that later.

So with that out of the way, expect a big post from me sometime during the evening.
Machina improba! Vel mihi ede potum vel mihi redde nummos meos!
Djodref
Profile Joined September 2012
France3332 Posts
September 30 2012 15:14 GMT
#488
One last thing, I was having a FoS on corrosion but I looked carefully at his thread and I have now a town read on him. His play looks similar to mine so I think he is just a newbie with bad posts as well.

His case against Darth was poor but newbies have a lot of pressure to build original cases to establish their townieness. So I can see town motivation for it. He also admitted that the case could have been weak.
Also he defended himself in an honest and clear way.
So I understand now why people attacking him can be seen as suspicious. So far I know that debears and me have been on him. I think now that debears was hoping to push a mislynch on corrosion.

unFoS: corrosion
corrosion
Profile Joined February 2011
Norway29 Posts
September 30 2012 15:29 GMT
#489
Because there's been some attention on myself, I haven't been working too much on scum hunting lately. It might be worthwhile to look at some of the people that have responded to my posts. Darth's response was clear and to the point (pointing out the error in my post). I liked it.

I also think Remedy made good points:

+ Show Spoiler +

On September 29 2012 23:15 RemedySC wrote:
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On September 29 2012 21:59 corrosion wrote:
Let me just state the reasons that my vote is on Kush right now:

I'm sorry, but I don't believe these are reasons a town would choose to make a vote.

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On September 29 2012 21:59 corrosion wrote:
1) I think his explanation of the slip was poor. If he had given a good explanation, I might have believed him.


So the scum slip itself doesn't give you good reason to vote for him, but his poor defense does? A mafia making a scum slip could have the best explanation in the world. That doesn't exonerate them.

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On September 29 2012 21:59 corrosion wrote:
2) I've been thinking about who would benefit if the result is a no-lynch. I'm thinking mafia is likely to benefit the most from a no-lynch.

So your second reason isn't even something that Kush has done. Wouldn't you also say that mafia would benefit from a mis-lynch more than from a no-lynch? Could you elaborate more on the bolded part, because you give no explanation as to how a mafia would benefit more from a no-lynch.

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On September 29 2012 21:59 corrosion wrote:
Right now, I think that there's more than a 25 % chance that Kush is scum. Therefore, I'm voting for him. I'm not sure if any of these points are original. I'm having trouble keeping up with the thread, because I tend to get hanged up in details.

You would think a town would want to be more than 25% sure the person they are voting for is scum. You don't even have any cases made against kush. No questions asked. Very vague reasons given...




This looks like good scum-hunting to me. Well done. It's kinda strange that nobody followed this up better, though.

SDM asked for a clarification on something I wrote. That's ok. I think the other responses I've gotten are more unclear and not to the point. I'll try to look into what intentions could be behind those posts.
qft
Omniscient4983
Profile Joined September 2012
United States32 Posts
September 30 2012 15:32 GMT
#490
On September 30 2012 23:46 Djodref wrote:

Debears didn't write "Get some help from the coaches !", he wrote me to get help from the town coach because he knows I am town.

Now please have a look on how he answered me when Omniscient asked him about it

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On September 29 2012 03:28 debears wrote:
@Omniscient

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On September 29 2012 02:17 Omniscient4983 wrote:
On September 29 2012 01:55 debears wrote:
@Djoref

On September 28 2012 15:22 Djodref wrote:
@DarthPunk

For your information, i consider the comments of debears on my posts legitimate. Let me say that I even don't like them. Currently reading the guides and older game analysis.


Please pm marv for help. The coaches are great


So you're confirming him town?


No. I am trying to help a newbie get into the swing of things. Last game, there was a large portion of lurkers, and it destroyed the game atmosphere. If he gets help and posts more quality, we have a much better read on him.





He denies it right away and gives a town motivation for his post. But then he starts talking about lurkers. I think lurkers and newbies are two different things and he was trying to divert everybody with this line.


Thank you for pointing this out. When I asked him about it at first, I didn't think much of it. But now that I look at his response, it seems to inherently dodge the question; no mention of why Marv specifically.

Also, don't write stuff like this:

On September 30 2012 23:46 Djodref wrote:

For the people suspecting me, please consider this post written by a town Djodref ^^



By flaunting yourself as town, you make yourself look suspicious. And for those that have scumreads on you, that can only provide a point for them.

Peace, love, and all that happiness stuff!
debears
Profile Joined September 2012
United States2516 Posts
September 30 2012 16:06 GMT
#491
@Djo

Read my posts. The second case I had planned was against SDM. However, SDM's posts have been well thought out with good reasoning. It would be useless and stupid to post a case based only on meta from last game.

@Darth

Seeing as the main part of the case against me is my "soft defend of kush" (actually telling you to chill out on it), I would like to explain my reasoning for telling you so d1. I asked for your previous games to examine your meta. A few things stuck out on me.

On September 28 2012 11:41 DarthPunk wrote:
My previous games.

NMM XXII Godfather

NMM XXIV Cop

TL Mafia LVII Roleblocker


NMM XXII - Godfather

Here you gave an early FOS against Mordanis as godfather

From that point on, you tunnel him pretty hard (you threw out some other accusations but nothing big)

Here you send a vote for Mordanis, the first vote on him.

I found it similar to the pattern with kush at the time.

NMM LVII - Roleblocker

In this game, you jump on Mattchew early. Pretty much all your posts revolve around him

You weren't anywhere near voting him first, but your early tunnel of him was alarming.

This one wasn't as similar, but still made me a little wary to trust you.

However, 2 things made me think you could also be town. In your two mafia games, you hardly used red text. (I think once per game both games only on one word).

In your game as cop, you used the red text a bit more than you did as mafia. One post had a bit of red around pg 4 of your filter.

Also, your post quality in this game was an improvement over your other games as mafia.

Thus, I was confused for most of day 1 about you. I wasn't willing to condemn kush based on how you attacked him. However, once kush imploded, it became apparent to me that he was, at the very least, a lost cause, at most scum.


Djodref
Profile Joined September 2012
France3332 Posts
September 30 2012 16:14 GMT
#492
Here is my defense against the latest DarthPunk post on me. My answers are in the spoiler in bold font.

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On September 30 2012 22:05 DarthPunk wrote:
OK. So here are my top scum reads in order.

Debears.

His flip-flopping around the kush lynch FoS'ing kush then soft defending him and trying to downplay the lynch after that are cause for concern. I am almost sure that he is scum. And he should be the next lynch candidate. Please reference the excellent case on him made by Z - Boson.

Djodref.

More flip flopping around the kush lynch. He was far far FAR to ready to believe kushes weak as anythign explanation for his slip. Something which all the candidates on my list have in common. The thing that really gets me though are the following.

I accepted kush's explanations because it was unbelievable for me to nail a scum by a scumslip this early in the game. If you look at my filter, you can see that I was believing that we were going to mislynch on day 1. So I had a confirmation bias (I wanted kush to be town so I was ready to buy anything) and wanted to avoid a mislynch. Very bad play from my part...

Twice asking for a read on himself. This is something that I have the impulse to do as scum. (i don;t do it, but I would love to) If you are not being talked about you have no idea if what you are doing is working well. I.E. If you are behaving scummy or not. Probably not anything. But something that struck me as odd.

I only asked debears about a read on myself. It was related to his scumslip. I wanted him to push him into slipping more by forcing him to say that I was town without any good explanations. That's why I asked him a clear read on myself, which he didn't give by the way. The second time he admits having a null read on me. Anyway I should have been more confident and asked him how he knew I was town

Trying to take credit twice from the kush lynch. Despite being wishy-washy at best and soft defending him at worst. As I have said earlier. Town cred is exactly what you want from a bus. And here is an already scummy player, who has not really scum hunted been incredibly wishy-washy etc. wanting town cred from a lynch he not only did not push but opposed and soft defended.

I've realized so far that my play is bad. But I want town to win and I want to have a part in this. So I'm proud of the little help I could give. It's true that I'm not the root cause for kush's slip but I think I provoked it somehow.
Also I know it's better to establish my alignment by posting original cases. I failed at it for the moment but I'm going to improve. So my motivation is just to show people what makes me town. At least I try to be transparent in my actions. If you look at my backflip just after, I knew it would look weird but a lot of stuff happened in the thread while I was afk. So I quoted myself for it to be visible for everyone.


And his vote post was a 180 degree backflip if I have ever seen one.


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On September 29 2012 12:53 Djodref wrote:
Here is my last statement about Kush...

On September 28 2012 21:18 Djodref wrote:
@corrosion

I'm actually working in Korea so I don't enjoy so much free time . But a big national holiday is coming this week end so I should be able to participate to the thread and finish to read all the guides.

@everyone
This also means party time ! I'm currently headed to get drunk all night so you shouldn't be hearing from me until tomorrow 12.00 pm KST.

Also I'm accepting Kush explanation for calling Darth a townie but it would be better for him to refrain calling someone a townie or a scum without explanations later on...


I did accept his explanation at the time but I cannot let him off the hook for the posts where he said he didn't care about this game anymore. Also I really don't like the posts where he implies that debears is his scum partner.
I don't see any pro-town motivation for such posts.
That's why he's getting my vote now.

##Vote: kushm4sta

Also a side note for the guys having trouble with my pseudo, you can call me Djo if you want


Also there is a progression in his posting from kush may be town. To kush may be red to kush IS red. With no addition to the case or explanation.

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On September 29 2012 20:11 Djodref wrote:
Hey guys !

I'm going out tonight again so I'll see you all after kush flips red ^^
I might check the thread drunken and all when I come back but it should be after the deadline so don't expect me to change my vote anymore.

I'm gaining confidence while playing this game. Also I'm reading the thread again and again. At that point, there was nothing to add on the case because it was obvious that kush was scum. By the way, DarthPunk also knew that kush was going to flip red but I agree that I should have given more explanations.

See ya !


He [b]knows kush is going to flip red. Before the flip. And his previous posts were not even close to this sure. In fact. He was inclined to believe kush's weak excuses. He said maybe and might.

Also read SDM's case on him.

Third is Alsn.

Soft defending Debears. Desperately trying to stop the kush lynch as hard as he could. Employer of WIFOM. Honestly Just look at Z- Boson's case against him.

Town reads

I have a probable town read on Z-Boson, and SDM. In no particular order.

Z - Boson is playing to his town meta from everything I have seen so far. And SDM has been very helpful and has contributed a lot.

It is only day one so take this with several grains of salt. But I thought I would put it out there in case I die.


Anyway. Feel free to ask me questions etc. I have stopped grinding solo q for the day. So now I am much more motivated for mafia lol.



I'll be glad to answer any questions from anyone
Djodref
Profile Joined September 2012
France3332 Posts
September 30 2012 16:29 GMT
#493
@Omniscient

Thank you for the advice !

I think my wording was poorly chosen. SDM, DarthPunk and maybe some other guys are now suspicious of me so I wanted these guys to look at this particular post while considering the possibility than I was town rather than the possibility that I was scum.

In fact, this is what I did by checking the filter of corrosion. I read his twice with the two following assumptions :
  • he is scum and made a case against Darth to discredit him and try to avoid kush's lynch
  • he is a newbie town who felt the urge to post an original case


His filter makes more sense with the second option, especially when I look at his latest posts.
So I have a mild town-read on him. SDM and Darth are for me almost confirmed townies so I feel bad to have them both suspecting me.

@debears

Regarding my case on you, could you make some comments about your scumslip rather than the part where I was wrong ?
Also why do you think kush made these stupid posts about you ?
Why was he defending you ?
Djodref
Profile Joined September 2012
France3332 Posts
September 30 2012 16:56 GMT
#494
And here is my defense against SDM case. My answers can be found once again in the spoiler in bold font.
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On September 30 2012 20:29 Sonic Death Monkey wrote:
After last night's post I've decide the lurker I found most suspicious is suspicious enough to call out. So far I've seen zero scum hunting from Djo. The best attempts I see are these two:


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On September 29 2012 13:17 Djodref wrote:
Hey, guys !

I would like to bring up something that struck me in the post of corrosion about Darth. I didn't like this post in general because it didn't match my interpretations of the early events between Kush and Darth but I understand that our views can differ.
But looking back at corrosion filter, he's trying to find scummy motivation for Darth to give his links to his previous game. Check the bolded part in the spoiler.

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On September 29 2012 04:29 corrosion wrote:
I'm just going to address the "fight" between Darth and Kush. I'm going to focus on Darth for now. Looking more closely into Kush's contribution is something I think should be done well ahead of lynch time.

I'm actually going to start by telling about some thoughts I had after reading my role PM. I was trying to figure out what players town should be focusing on. I had obsed NMMXXVII, and came to the conclusion that it might be reasonable to go after any player except Kush. I figured that Kush was going to make a lot of posts anyway, so I was thinking that we could get a good analysis of him without any early pressure.

One of the first things Darth did was to antagonize Kush:

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On September 28 2012 08:34 DarthPunk wrote:
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On September 28 2012 06:58 kushm4sta wrote:
@sonic
getting everyone's thoughts on lurker policy is important. Don't argue about it but share your views on the matter please..

No it's not. It is simply a mechanism to get the discussion going and allows scum to seem to participate and to potentially mislynch an inactive townie. Any more talk of policy will get you FoS'd.


I'm thinking that this could easily be an attempt to start a fight that would result in derailing the thread. Kush responded the way I expected him to, and these two posters exchanged arguments back and forth.

In the middle of this, Darth made a remark against lurkers, but quickly changed his focus back on Kush.

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On September 28 2012 10:36 DarthPunk wrote:
So is everyone just going to drop their welcome posts and then afk?


I don't see why he should make this comment at this time, since it wasn't going to get looked at while there was a fight going on.

Shortly afterwards, Kush makes his supposed scum slip. Darth jumps on it, and shortly afterwards he posts about his previous mafia games. I've watched the game where he played cop, and seen that he and Shady argued a lot on D1. So I was thinking that this seems to be Darth's town meta. But I also asked myself why he did post about his previous games at this point in time. Maybe this was all intentional. Suppose he suddenly remembered that game. He might not have wanted people to look at those games earlier, but now he realized that if he posted them he would be able to establish a town read on himself.

I'm not sure if this is a strong case against Darth at the moment. I would like some input from the more experienced players here. If Kush hadn't made that slip, I think the derailing argument would have looked strong. Now it doesn't look so strong, because we've actually gotten new information. I'm not saying that I'm sure the scum slip is an actual slip, but if it is and it results in a succesful lynch, I think town got very lucky. Scum usually wouldn't slip in such an obvious manner.

His cases against Debears and Alsn are something that might reveal useful information, but I've not studied them closely yet. I still think that Kush seems more suspicious when everything is taken into consideration but with all the focus that has been on him, I'm sure someone else can post a decent case on him before we need to consider our first lynch.



But Darth was just answering a request from debears !

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On September 28 2012 11:39 debears wrote:
As I said, I want a quick look at you first. Second, there isn't much more to add to what you said about it. It does give off the impression of extra information.



I think corrosion was trying to cast scummy shadow on Darth to shift the focus on Kush. I did so by omitting/deforming some parts of the thread history. Also, he fits my definition of a semi-lurker trying to blend in.

So, corrosion, until I got your explanations about this point, I got my eyes on you.

##FoS: corrosion


Here he brings up a point that had been brought up by Darth already, basically adding nothing on your own.

I realized that afterwards but I was looking into the corrosion's filter so I missed Darth point about it. That's why I'm now totally believing corrosion defense about it. We have made the same kind of mistake...



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On September 29 2012 16:19 Djodref wrote:
Also I don't understand you stances on my alignment. After your first case on me, I thought you were suspicious of me.
Later on, you recommend me to pm marv for help. You certainly know that marv is the town coach. So did you just let go your suspicions and consider me as town newbie ?
Your town motivation would be to help a fellow citizen but in this case why do you think I'm town ?
Your mafia motivation would be budding me and show pro-town behavior (unfortunately while slipping).

And I would like you to answer my questions clearly in the future and not throwing me a question back.


Again, this is a completely ripping off an earlier argument by Boson, adding nothing new. Aside from those two attempts, he's keeping his post count relatively high while not posting anything of value.

So yeah, I've encouraged newbies to post, but this is exactly what I call posting for the sake of posting. Adding nothing new and just getting along, and that's scummy. Further...



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On September 30 2012 06:52 Djodref wrote:
@Alsn

I understand why I'm on your null read list so far but I'd like to point out something to you and everybody.
Here is the post where Kush has made his scumslip.

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On September 28 2012 11:22 kushm4sta wrote:
should not have looked at thread again now I have to respond...
@debears yeah it's like exactly the same as last game. That's because I think up my first post almost word for word before I even get my roll pm. I did not get to follow through with it last game though since I rolled scum.
Also sorry for the semiflame war. It was not that bad. Also he started it.

Aside from that, I think the plan to start tunneling during the second half of the day is really bad. It helped us a lot last game as scum because we had an excuse not to vote for the people we were fosing.

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On September 28 2012 11:09 Djodref wrote:
@Kush

thank you now I won't be nk


Was it also a joke ?
How can you be so sure you are not going to be NKed ?

Because the most active townie is tunneling me? Obviously I'm not going to be nk.
And yes it was a joke but the best jokes have truth to them.
It is a joke in that it's purpose was to be funny since obviously it doesn't help the scumhunt or my defense.




I'm actually proud of this one because he did it while answering one of my questions ^^ I think I deserve some town credit for that one even if I did buy kush's explanations about this slip later on.


This is not the first time you're trying to give yourself townie points for asking a question to Kush. Last time it was more thinly veiled but it still caught my attention:

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On September 28 2012 15:00 Djodref wrote:
Nevertheless, Kush slipped by answering my question about the NK.


Asking Kush the question doesn't give you townie points. The thing with a scum slip is that it's obviously something which happens unintentionally, so if you were both scum it obviously wasn't planned anyway (or at least highly unlikely to have been). To be fair he did at least engage in the discussion, which can be seen as scum hunting, but not until Darth had aggresively called out Kush. What follows is this:

It's one of the only thing I'm happy with my play until now except from my last case on debears. I wished it could give me town credit rather than looking suspicious But I totally get your point
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On September 28 2012 13:27 Djodref wrote:
It's a little illogical because you are saying that he looks scummy as town or as scum and yet you are able to make the difference between and scummy town Kush and a scummy scum Kush.
I also read through the last Newbie Mini Mafia games and I must agree he didn't mention night kills so much when he was town iirc.
I'm looking forward his explanations about his town read on you and I hope more people can give their opinion about your case on Kush.
As I was also reading the game where you were mafia roleblocker and I saw your ability to flame with Shiaopi, I'm not buying it yet.


Casting doubts on Darth's suspicion, downplaying it as a flame war. Even if Darth would be able to flame Kush as scum (he probably would), it's not the focus here, there are actually good arguments supporting the accusations.

Actually I was really shocked by his absolute certitude about kush. As I already said, I wasn't confident at all early game and I couldn't not imagine a townie to be so sure of himself. I made the parallel with his play and flaming as roleblocker in his last game because of the confidence he showed also during the flaming.
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On September 28 2012 15:00 Djodref wrote:
@Everyone

I'm going to take a stance on Kush when he explains why he thinks Darth to be town.


Here he is keeping his options open, which is a convenient strategy in a pressured situation. Then actually buying into Kush's silly explanation:

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On September 28 2012 21:18 Djodref wrote:
Also I'm accepting Kush explanation for calling Darth a townie but it would be better for him to refrain calling someone a townie or a scum without explanations later on...


Finally jumping the wagon with weak reasoning (later claiming my post helped pursaude him):
When I woke up and looked at the thread it was then clear that kush was mafia. I did a poor job at explaining myself at the time but it's true that your post convinced me of the reality of the slip. I thank you for that

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On September 29 2012 12:53 Djodref wrote:
I did accept his explanation at the time but I cannot let him off the hook for the posts where he said he didn't care about this game anymore. Also I really don't like the posts where he implies that debears is his scum partner.
I don't see any pro-town motivation for such posts.
That's why he's getting my vote now.

##Vote: kushm4sta

Also a side note for the guys having trouble with my pseudo, you can call me Djo if you want



I realize this can be the result of him being a total newbie, but his posts are really unconvincing and worthy of suspicion.
It pains me a little but this is exactly the result of me being a total newbie. I know I'm using this excuse way to much so I'll be posting cases from now on. Please let me improve ^^

##FOS: Djodref

debears
Profile Joined September 2012
United States2516 Posts
September 30 2012 16:58 GMT
#495
@Djo

If you would actually read through my posts, most of your questions are answered. There are 3 parts that are inherently wrong because you aren't reading my posts. Instead, you feel like accusing me about points that I have already addressed.


Wrong 1)
The second case thing

Wrong 2)
Why the pm marv post.
"1) If you looked at my posts after my “PM marv for help” post, I believe corrosion instantly assumed that I confirmed him town. That is not true at all. Notice A) Djo is a noob and B) I said COACHES. The word townie was never said in the sentence. You guys are putting words in my mouth. Also, note how in one of Djo’s prior posts, he says he was going to go look at guides. I don’t understand why you guys are so eager to jump on someone trying to help a newbie.

Yet again, townie motivation: If Djo is town, it will greatly help us if he gets help. Even if he isn't, it will raise the quality of this NEWBIE game and help us all improve if he gets help."

3)
"He doesn't want to give a clear answer on his read about me. What does it mean that I'm sheeping onto cases ? I think it was too dangerous for him to pronounce himself about my alignment due to his previous slip. I asked him why he directed me to marv and answer by a question because he cannot afford to be transparent on this subject."

I gave a clear answer on you

On September 30 2012 00:06 debears wrote:
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On September 29 2012 16:26 Djodref wrote:
@debears

so let me reformulate my question so we can understand each other better this time

What is your read about me so far ?


[*]town
[*]null
[*]scum


You can use quantitative adjectives


null right now. Just was working on Boson. Will look into you more though
[/list][/list]

Sheeping means you jump on cases without making your own reasons. I have been pretty straightforward on answering these questions.

Alright, now for an interesting point that you brought up.

"He denies it right away and gives a town motivation for his post. But then he starts talking about lurkers. I think lurkers and newbies are two different things and he was trying to divert everybody with this line."

Ask Remedy about this.

On September 28 2012 06:40 RemedySC wrote:
Hey,

About me
This is my second newbie game. In the first game I had a good read on Kush, but I didn't post enough, or have the amount of content needed in a post to get him lynched.
This time though, if I have a good read that some one is scum, they are going down.

Lurker Policy
Well, like in the previous game, I think that a pure lurker lynch policy will end up hurting town and benefiting mafia as the game progresses. If we have no reasonable scum lead by the end of the day, then I think town hasn't been trying hard enough. So think fucking positive, we will find them!


Last game, he lurked and got the axe for it. He says he had a case but couldn't get the content he needed. Hapa said only thrawn got help from him last game. So, if guys like remedy had gotten help last game, what could the difference have been?

The same applies for this game. Anyone who is a nooby should get help. It increases the quality of the game and allows everyone to have an actual read on you.
Alsn
Profile Joined February 2008
Sweden995 Posts
September 30 2012 17:04 GMT
#496
Would just like to say that I have a pretty massive draft written up, but I need a break, so there will be a delay before I submit it as I still need to format links and such and address Z-BosoN's last major post about debears. Rest assured that it will at least be up before the day post however.
Machina improba! Vel mihi ede potum vel mihi redde nummos meos!
Djodref
Profile Joined September 2012
France3332 Posts
September 30 2012 17:09 GMT
#497
@debears

Well I would disagree about sheeping. Nobody so far has pointed out the defense you got from kush and the posts where he implies that you are his scumbuddy.
So why do you think kush was defending you ?

@everyone

Before going to bed, I would like to state that my guess for the scumteam is now debears/alsn. I think Z-BosoN has the right of it. I'm asking for a vig shot on debears !

Also Remedy is too much of a lurker. I don't think we are going to encounter lylo or mylo situations in this game but I hope that we can get something of him before this...


Omniscient4983
Profile Joined September 2012
United States32 Posts
September 30 2012 17:15 GMT
#498
On October 01 2012 01:29 Djodref wrote:

In fact, this is what I did by checking the filter of corrosion. I read his twice with the two following assumptions :
  • he is scum and made a case against Darth to discredit him and try to avoid kush's lynch
  • he is a newbie town who felt the urge to post an original case


His filter makes more sense with the second option, especially when I look at his latest posts. So I have a mild town-read on him.


@Djodref

That's exactly my read on him atm. He certainly seems more newbie-town than scum right now. This is why I was questioned your suspicions of him. Glad to see we can agree on this read.
Peace, love, and all that happiness stuff!
Omniscient4983
Profile Joined September 2012
United States32 Posts
September 30 2012 17:23 GMT
#499
On October 01 2012 02:09 Djodref wrote:

Also Remedy is too much of a lurker. I don't think we are going to encounter lylo or mylo situations in this game but I hope that we can get something of him before this...


This was a reason I made a post about him. Granted, the post itself wasn't on the best foundation and plagued by some misinterpretations, but it was an effort to get his input on things. You can see that he posted a large post after me, and that's it. I respect his defense, and I'm curious to hear what he thinks about the Debears situation, or the other cases made earlier on night 1.
Peace, love, and all that happiness stuff!
Sonic Death Monkey
Profile Joined July 2011
Sweden991 Posts
September 30 2012 17:36 GMT
#500
I tried to collect my thoughts regarding the Alsn case and I realized when I first commented my perception of the timeline of events was off.

On my first read through of the thread, I found Alsn being generally suspicious of everything (overall a town trait) and he had been fucking up with regards to some of the information (perhaps not what I'd expect of Alsn given what I've seen of him before, but I don't find it too weird). Alsn was pretty much a null read to me. Anyway, I went back to look at Alsn's filter.

In his first post, which happens around 11 hours after the start of the game, he makes a long ass post about his thoughts on Kush. This in itself might be suspicious to some people, but having played with Kush in XXVI and XXVII he was probably the one player I was thinking the most about who to handle pre-game so I don't find it too weird. In his next post, one hour later, he has read up on the thread and recognizes that Kush has been playing like he Alsn had been afraid he would. He FOS Kush but says he's not convinced.

Anyway, when I said I wasn't convinced of the case, I had messed up the timeline of events. I thought Alsn's posts indirectly defending Kush happened not long before Kush completely blew up. If that was the case, I would've found it weird for Kush to blow up soon after his scum buddy showed him support. It seems now that Kush blew up at a later stage when Alsn wasn't around the thread, so that nullifies the argument I thought I had against the case.

I felt it was best to put it out there because if I happen to get killed off I don't want to leave with the impression I had some well thought out objection to the Alsn case. I still need to finish reading Alsn's filter and look at the case again, but I won't have time to do it until tomorrow.
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