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Crossfire99
Profile Joined March 2011
United States1529 Posts
June 12 2012 02:45 GMT
#29
Time for another one.

/in
Crossfire99
Profile Joined March 2011
United States1529 Posts
June 13 2012 16:56 GMT
#121
Just woke up. I'll start with that only as a last resort will I be for lynching a lurker Day 1. If we can get some good scum hunting done Day 1 we will have a more productive lynch than just a random lurker. Now onto what has been happening.

On the whole suki and trapdoor issue:
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On June 13 2012 12:44 suki wrote:
Is it just me or is trackd00r coming off as scummy already?

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If I understood correctly, it doesn't mean that I would stop any lynch that I didn't mention on my analysis. Just because I have a candidate for lynch, it doesn't imply that I discard any other possibility.

It's something related to common sense. If any other cases are convincing enough, I'll throw my vote there in the case I can't get a majority. In the other hand, if we end up like RNG lynching (which is a bad idea), any other poster that could be doing silly mistakes, or even a player practically saying ''hey guys, I'm mafia, lynch me'' that's when it goes against my mindset. Any possibility is valuable, but if there is something absurdly wrong, I'll call it, even if that means a no lynch.


This post screams to me that he's trying to be super cautious with his words, so that he'll have a safety net if/when he ever changes a vote or bandwagons on someone else. He throws out some 'obvious' examples of reasons of what wouldn't agree with him, and even mentions that he would follow through on a read, even if it that means a no lynch.

BUT WAIT! Just ONE post previous to that he says this:

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I won't accept a NO LYNCH unless I believe we may have a serious mislynch coming.


...

Dude. You try to take a firm stance against something, and then you do the most scummy wishy-washy-ness thing ever the very next post. You're clearly informed about mafia as you brought up the idea of a day 1 RNG lynch, and being against a no lynch is not a difficult or complicated policy to hold. I feel that such a simple logical slip only happens if you're trying to play it safe and keep your options open.

##vote trackd00r


I think suki was just being aggressive. I admit that I found trapdoor's response post to be weird, but then I realized that English is probably not his native language, so I reread it a few times. I don't see a contradiction in there, he is just explaining that he would try to stop a lynch that he really believed was on a townie. I'll give suki the benefit of the doubt on this case and say she is an over eager townie for now.

On roflwaffle and alan:
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On June 13 2012 22:28 roflwaffles55 wrote:
I woke up this morning to the arguments made towards trackd00r, and while the arguments made against him weren't particularly convincing, his defense was a little bit lackluster as well.

However, I would like to bring your attention to someone else that is acting quite scummy as it stands.


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On June 13 2012 13:05 alan133 wrote:
On June 13 2012 11:12 roflwaffles55 wrote:
On June 13 2012 11:03 alan133 wrote:
Good morning everyone. Looks like the first thing I am going to do in the office is to play mafia on TL. I don't recognize anyone here since this is my first game, well except for s0Lsitce since he is in the game I read. That's my brief introduction, and habitually in the beginning of any game, GLHF.

I am new and am unsure how to proceed with the game, but my current strategy is to wait for more post to come. Currently I have no FoS. That also mean I do not trust anyone yet.


What are your thoughts on what's been posted as of yet?


On the inactive/lurkers lynch
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I believe inactive players/lurkers are generally anti-town/bad town play in any mafia game, so lynching them isn't a bad idea (Since I believe d1 lynch is good, refer below), if there aren't better candidates of course.


On the day 1 lynch/no lynch
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I agree on lynching day 1 based on my experience with other mafia games (outside TL) with similar setup. By reading other games on TL I also notice the current meta game is to lynch when there are more players, as it gives townies clues.


I am off to lunch, will be commenting on my thoughts later as I see some interesting posts/votes already.


His first post puts him on the bandwagon with his opinion on the inactives and lurkers, and is generally a contentless post with little to no controversy. Otherwise, nothing to bring the spotlight to him at all.

While this is not by any means evidence of scummy play, there comes to attention the next post he makes.

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On June 13 2012 15:40 alan133 wrote:
My thoughts on suki's case:
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Any possibility is valuable, but if there is something absurdly wrong, I'll call it, even if that means a no lynch.

I won't accept a NO LYNCH unless I believe we may have a serious mislynch coming.

I started writing before I refresh and saw s0lstice's post. As he already pointed it out, there are no contradictions between the two statements. trackd00r merely states that NL is bad unless it is a "serious" mislynch in both highlighted sentence. If I am missing something, please correct me.

Also, Miltonkram:
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On June 13 2012 10:35 Miltonkram wrote:
Hey all, glad to see we've got a bit of activity already.

In NMM XV we actually had a decent discussion about no-lynches (involving me making a fool of myself) and how they can actually be beneficial in certain setups. That being said, we don't know for certain if we'll have any modkills so we should leave no-lynches off the table until we hit the unlikely scenario that a no-lynch is beneficial for the town.

Town, the best way to contribute is just to get posting. Let everyone know what your thoughts are. Did someone post something suspicious? Let us know about it. Do you think the town is making a bad move? Let us know about it. If a townie lurks he/she is letting down his/her entire team. So don't do it, K? I'm sooooooooper serious. Like sooooper, soooooooooooper serious.

Hey sciberbia, remember this
##Vote: sciberbia
...heh heh heh


Is it me or you are not actually + Show Spoiler +
soooooooooooooooooper serious
? I personally think (well played) townies are not the ones that bluffs around, let alone voting someone without any reason at all? Generally, fooling around, to me, is anti-town/ bad town play.


My current opinion
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FMPOV, suki's case was most probably based on a misunderstanding, but (s)he could very well did it intentionally hoping for a bandwagon leading to a mislynch. Note that I am merely listing the possibilities, I do not FoS anyone yet, which can also mean that I do not trust anyone yet.


This is the post that really got me wondering. How by now can you have no suspicions? There has been quite a few suspicious decisions by several people, giving you more then enough time to form a case against someone, or at least apply some pressure.

His statement about trackd00r comes after s0lstice, leaving his opinion tied to a fairly influential player and just reiterating what s0lstice said with no additional evidence or opinionated comments. Again, seeming like he's contributing without actually bringing anything to the table.

He throws around some suspicion towards Miltonkram, however not enough to constitute a case or apply any pressure, just enough to make people go filter milton and consider what he might have done, which yet again, leaves him out of the spotlight.

The last statement he makes in this post is the most suspicious and the largest tell of his indecision and lack of real input. He restates his opinion that suki's case is a misunderstanding, again, nothing of value. He then continues to explain that he has no FoS and that he doesn't trust anyone, leaving his options open, and having no real contrary opinions.

His current play is anti-town at best, as he hasn't brought any of his thoughts to the table, and has only left ambiguous and bandwagoning answers to keep attention on those with controversial opinions.


I think roflwaffle is jumping a little too hard on alan here. It is like 1/3 of the way through Day 1. We are not going to have a lot to work with and consequently we aren't going to really know what to think of people until we get more information. Therefore, I feel alan is playing smartly by not rushing to find every little thing that might possibly be suspicious and throw a vote on someone because of it.

On Milton: He was just joking around. If he doesn't stop then I'll start getting suspicious of him.

As for my current thoughts:

The bolded part of this post by austin makes me suspicious of him.
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On June 13 2012 22:23 austinmcc wrote:
I don't read those posts as contradictory, believe the second one clarifies the first and explains that, while he'd consider a NL, the standard is higher than "Town is lynching someone that isn't one of my top couple reads."

That said, even if the two statements are entirely contradictory, I don't really see anything scummy in that. More inclined to see contradictions concerning votes and reads as scummy, where someone has stated one thing but then has to take a party line, rather than super early statements concerning a no lynch. There's no agenda to push on that issue.


Two completely contradictory statements without reasoning for the change is very suspicious. This is a good way to catch scum. They know the alignment of every person, so they have to make cases that they know are wrong (excluding bussing). This can lead to contradictory posts to make them better fit in with the current town mindset.

Austin, why don't you think that contradictory statements are suspicious?
Crossfire99
Profile Joined March 2011
United States1529 Posts
June 13 2012 17:02 GMT
#123
On June 14 2012 01:35 roflwaffles55 wrote:
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On June 13 2012 23:48 alan133 wrote:
@rolfwaffles55
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His first post puts him on the bandwagon with his opinion on the inactives and lurkers, and is generally a contentless post with little to no controversy. Otherwise, nothing to bring the spotlight to him at all.

Well, you were the one asking for my opinion on what has already posted.
This is the post that really got me wondering. How by now can you have no suspicions? There has been quite a few suspicious decisions by several people, giving you more then enough time to form a case against someone, or at least apply some pressure.

You can decide if I am honest about writing the post before s0lstice, which was also stated in my post. (I refreshed to see if there are new post before I "submit") I also shortened it to avoid long repeated post.

I wrote the possible motivations behind suki's case. I don't see how it is "anti-town" or "just fillers", as these were exactly my thoughts on the case.

FMPOV, anyone can be scum, and having no FoS does not mean I do not suspect anyone. I merely state that I have no strong scum read as of currently, and in my context, strong means pretty much confirmed.

IMO those who are decisive in throwing votes based on weak or insubstantial claims were somewhat suspicious. I think it is normal for townies to hold doubts and and being decisive as they were less informed. If anything, I just tried to keep an open mind.

Also, is it me or you were trying to divert the attention AWAY from suki? I don't see how keeping the attention on suki is a bad thing, as you suggested.
His current play is anti-town at best, as he hasn't brought any of his thoughts to the table, and has only left ambiguous and bandwagoning answers to keep attention on those with controversial opinions.

Well if you're complaining about not bringing up any of my thoughts, there you have it. I were trying to avoid throwing out suspicions with little to no proof, but if by not doing so is anti-town

As a matter of fact, roflwaffles55 asked for my opinion replying to my opening post, and criticise it being a bandwagon, while forgetting he did the same.
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On June 13 2012 11:03 roflwaffles55 wrote:
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On June 13 2012 10:46 s0Lstice wrote:
On June 13 2012 09:56 roflwaffles55 wrote:
Hey everyone!

Glad I got towned up for my first game, I'm hoping to be able to contribute to the analysis and casebuilding, as well as make some good reads of my own!

I'll read up on the previous game that the 6 of you were a part of to see if I can't make some good calls when it comes time to vote.


Would you care to comment on the topics sciberbia brought up?


Sure!

When it comes to lynching lurkers I would agree in that it shouldn't be the focus, and would prefer to lynch someone acting scummy day 1.

As to NL, I am firmly against it and if we can't get a clear majority on scummy-acting folks then we should at least lynch a lurker, especially on D1 and 2.


roflwaffles55 also mentioned that I somehow "bandwagoned" and provided little to no additional content on suki's case, which I don't think is true.

Well, he also voted me on these insubstantial reasons. Of course, he also missed one or two post made by Miltonkram and austinmcc, which posted something more or less what I said. Also, if I am the only one not bringing up cases, there should be at least 11 other cases already. Of course, those were ignored and he proceed to vote me.


@trackd00r
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Looks like you intented to write something else about me, but a single post of S0lstice made your opinion change quite quickly, very quickly IMO.

This is a weird speculation, as there is no indication nor proof I was not doing otherwise. I guess there is no way to say "I swear I was backing you up even before I read anything else!!111", but oh well. I did edit my post after I saw ss0lstice's post, mostly shortening what was already mentioned by ss0lstice, as most of my points were agreeing with him.


My policy is to stay as neutral as possible, accessing all the possibilities while passively waiting/reading what other people has posted. I do believe this is not a bad-town play, as I am trying to avoid town fighting town scenario while scums lurks and look at the drama while eating pop-corns.

That said, Crossfire99 is still missing while HeavOnEarth only has his opening post.

I would like to see other people's thought on suki and rolfwaffles55's cases.


While I am completely aware that my case has several holes in it, nobody can expect an ironclad case halfway through D1. The points you bring up in the first half of your response to me continue to be ambiguous, I'm glad you started to get your legitimate opinions out there, being quiet and neutral will get us nowhere. Both of our initial posts tended to agree with the majority, but as I said, that wasn't the focus of my argument, it was the post on the suki argument that got my suspicions roused.

Yes, I did vote you, but you forget that votes are easily removable, and the fact that you had to write a sensationalist paragraph in red text rather then just poke through the obvious logical holes in my cases convince me that you have something to lose, whether it be scum, blue, or just poor play.

As suki said, don't stay neutral, start posting your opinion on people, even if it brings attention to you.


Be careful roflwaffle, votes are only easily removable if you are around to remove them. You never know what might happen. Also, votes early on in the day cycle that don't really mean much followed by complete disappearance during a controversial lynch can be scum tactic to avoid making mistakes in a heated debate that occurs last minute.
Crossfire99
Profile Joined March 2011
United States1529 Posts
June 13 2012 17:06 GMT
#124
On June 14 2012 02:00 roflwaffles55 wrote:
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On June 14 2012 01:56 Crossfire99 wrote:
Just woke up. I'll start with that only as a last resort will I be for lynching a lurker Day 1. If we can get some good scum hunting done Day 1 we will have a more productive lynch than just a random lurker. Now onto what has been happening.

On the whole suki and trapdoor issue:
+ Show Spoiler +
On June 13 2012 12:44 suki wrote:
Is it just me or is trackd00r coming off as scummy already?

Show nested quote +

If I understood correctly, it doesn't mean that I would stop any lynch that I didn't mention on my analysis. Just because I have a candidate for lynch, it doesn't imply that I discard any other possibility.

It's something related to common sense. If any other cases are convincing enough, I'll throw my vote there in the case I can't get a majority. In the other hand, if we end up like RNG lynching (which is a bad idea), any other poster that could be doing silly mistakes, or even a player practically saying ''hey guys, I'm mafia, lynch me'' that's when it goes against my mindset. Any possibility is valuable, but if there is something absurdly wrong, I'll call it, even if that means a no lynch.


This post screams to me that he's trying to be super cautious with his words, so that he'll have a safety net if/when he ever changes a vote or bandwagons on someone else. He throws out some 'obvious' examples of reasons of what wouldn't agree with him, and even mentions that he would follow through on a read, even if it that means a no lynch.

BUT WAIT! Just ONE post previous to that he says this:

Show nested quote +
I won't accept a NO LYNCH unless I believe we may have a serious mislynch coming.


...

Dude. You try to take a firm stance against something, and then you do the most scummy wishy-washy-ness thing ever the very next post. You're clearly informed about mafia as you brought up the idea of a day 1 RNG lynch, and being against a no lynch is not a difficult or complicated policy to hold. I feel that such a simple logical slip only happens if you're trying to play it safe and keep your options open.

##vote trackd00r


I think suki was just being aggressive. I admit that I found trapdoor's response post to be weird, but then I realized that English is probably not his native language, so I reread it a few times. I don't see a contradiction in there, he is just explaining that he would try to stop a lynch that he really believed was on a townie. I'll give suki the benefit of the doubt on this case and say she is an over eager townie for now.

On roflwaffle and alan:
+ Show Spoiler +
On June 13 2012 22:28 roflwaffles55 wrote:
I woke up this morning to the arguments made towards trackd00r, and while the arguments made against him weren't particularly convincing, his defense was a little bit lackluster as well.

However, I would like to bring your attention to someone else that is acting quite scummy as it stands.


Show nested quote +
On June 13 2012 13:05 alan133 wrote:
On June 13 2012 11:12 roflwaffles55 wrote:
On June 13 2012 11:03 alan133 wrote:
Good morning everyone. Looks like the first thing I am going to do in the office is to play mafia on TL. I don't recognize anyone here since this is my first game, well except for s0Lsitce since he is in the game I read. That's my brief introduction, and habitually in the beginning of any game, GLHF.

I am new and am unsure how to proceed with the game, but my current strategy is to wait for more post to come. Currently I have no FoS. That also mean I do not trust anyone yet.


What are your thoughts on what's been posted as of yet?


On the inactive/lurkers lynch
+ Show Spoiler +

I believe inactive players/lurkers are generally anti-town/bad town play in any mafia game, so lynching them isn't a bad idea (Since I believe d1 lynch is good, refer below), if there aren't better candidates of course.


On the day 1 lynch/no lynch
+ Show Spoiler +

I agree on lynching day 1 based on my experience with other mafia games (outside TL) with similar setup. By reading other games on TL I also notice the current meta game is to lynch when there are more players, as it gives townies clues.


I am off to lunch, will be commenting on my thoughts later as I see some interesting posts/votes already.


His first post puts him on the bandwagon with his opinion on the inactives and lurkers, and is generally a contentless post with little to no controversy. Otherwise, nothing to bring the spotlight to him at all.

While this is not by any means evidence of scummy play, there comes to attention the next post he makes.

Show nested quote +
On June 13 2012 15:40 alan133 wrote:
My thoughts on suki's case:
+ Show Spoiler +

Any possibility is valuable, but if there is something absurdly wrong, I'll call it, even if that means a no lynch.

I won't accept a NO LYNCH unless I believe we may have a serious mislynch coming.

I started writing before I refresh and saw s0lstice's post. As he already pointed it out, there are no contradictions between the two statements. trackd00r merely states that NL is bad unless it is a "serious" mislynch in both highlighted sentence. If I am missing something, please correct me.

Also, Miltonkram:
+ Show Spoiler +

On June 13 2012 10:35 Miltonkram wrote:
Hey all, glad to see we've got a bit of activity already.

In NMM XV we actually had a decent discussion about no-lynches (involving me making a fool of myself) and how they can actually be beneficial in certain setups. That being said, we don't know for certain if we'll have any modkills so we should leave no-lynches off the table until we hit the unlikely scenario that a no-lynch is beneficial for the town.

Town, the best way to contribute is just to get posting. Let everyone know what your thoughts are. Did someone post something suspicious? Let us know about it. Do you think the town is making a bad move? Let us know about it. If a townie lurks he/she is letting down his/her entire team. So don't do it, K? I'm sooooooooper serious. Like sooooper, soooooooooooper serious.

Hey sciberbia, remember this
##Vote: sciberbia
...heh heh heh


Is it me or you are not actually + Show Spoiler +
soooooooooooooooooper serious
? I personally think (well played) townies are not the ones that bluffs around, let alone voting someone without any reason at all? Generally, fooling around, to me, is anti-town/ bad town play.


My current opinion
+ Show Spoiler +
FMPOV, suki's case was most probably based on a misunderstanding, but (s)he could very well did it intentionally hoping for a bandwagon leading to a mislynch. Note that I am merely listing the possibilities, I do not FoS anyone yet, which can also mean that I do not trust anyone yet.


This is the post that really got me wondering. How by now can you have no suspicions? There has been quite a few suspicious decisions by several people, giving you more then enough time to form a case against someone, or at least apply some pressure.

His statement about trackd00r comes after s0lstice, leaving his opinion tied to a fairly influential player and just reiterating what s0lstice said with no additional evidence or opinionated comments. Again, seeming like he's contributing without actually bringing anything to the table.

He throws around some suspicion towards Miltonkram, however not enough to constitute a case or apply any pressure, just enough to make people go filter milton and consider what he might have done, which yet again, leaves him out of the spotlight.

The last statement he makes in this post is the most suspicious and the largest tell of his indecision and lack of real input. He restates his opinion that suki's case is a misunderstanding, again, nothing of value. He then continues to explain that he has no FoS and that he doesn't trust anyone, leaving his options open, and having no real contrary opinions.

His current play is anti-town at best, as he hasn't brought any of his thoughts to the table, and has only left ambiguous and bandwagoning answers to keep attention on those with controversial opinions.


I think roflwaffle is jumping a little too hard on alan here. It is like 1/3 of the way through Day 1. We are not going to have a lot to work with and consequently we aren't going to really know what to think of people until we get more information. Therefore, I feel alan is playing smartly by not rushing to find every little thing that might possibly be suspicious and throw a vote on someone because of it.

On Milton: He was just joking around. If he doesn't stop then I'll start getting suspicious of him.

As for my current thoughts:

The bolded part of this post by austin makes me suspicious of him.
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On June 13 2012 22:23 austinmcc wrote:
I don't read those posts as contradictory, believe the second one clarifies the first and explains that, while he'd consider a NL, the standard is higher than "Town is lynching someone that isn't one of my top couple reads."

That said, even if the two statements are entirely contradictory, I don't really see anything scummy in that. More inclined to see contradictions concerning votes and reads as scummy, where someone has stated one thing but then has to take a party line, rather than super early statements concerning a no lynch. There's no agenda to push on that issue.


Two completely contradictory statements without reasoning for the change is very suspicious. This is a good way to catch scum. They know the alignment of every person, so they have to make cases that they know are wrong (excluding bussing). This can lead to contradictory posts to make them better fit in with the current town mindset.

Austin, why don't you think that contradictory statements are suspicious?


We need more information, and the only way to get that information is by pressuring people, scum starts with an information advantage and the faster we work to even that out, the better position we'll be in.


I agree that we need more information and we get that from pressuring people, but we need to do that smartly. If too many people are throwing around minor accusations all the time, it just confuses the town and allows mafia to sit back and laugh. That is what happened in NMM XIII when I was mafia. Ask austin, he was in it too.
Crossfire99
Profile Joined March 2011
United States1529 Posts
June 13 2012 18:38 GMT
#132
On June 14 2012 02:45 s0Lstice wrote:
Crossfire99, what do you think of what I said about Mouldy Jeb?

Roflwaffles55, same question.


Yeah Mouldy is acting really weird. He needs to get active to explain himself. Everything he has said so far lacks good reasoning.
Crossfire99
Profile Joined March 2011
United States1529 Posts
June 13 2012 18:50 GMT
#135
On June 14 2012 03:24 s0Lstice wrote:
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On June 14 2012 02:02 Crossfire99 wrote:
--snipped

Be careful roflwaffle, votes are only easily removable if you are around to remove them. You never know what might happen. Also, votes early on in the day cycle that don't really mean much followed by complete disappearance during a controversial lynch can be scum tactic to avoid making mistakes in a heated debate that occurs last minute.


What an odd thing to say. Your message boils down to: don't vote because you might not be around later, and when that happens you are going to look scummy. Discouraging voting for such an arbitrary reason looks kind of scummy. Also, this hall-monitor stuff is a comfortable way for scum to post and have it look like they are pro-town.


I never said don't vote. I just said be careful about throwing your votes around willy-nilly under the premise that you are going to remove them later. I never even said don't do that. I just don't want someone sticking someone else with a vote for flimsy reasons that ends up sealing a lynch because they couldn't get back in time to change it. That was the entire point of those two sentences.

As for the mention of the scum tactic, I'm just saying that sometimes scum can not take part in big discussions later in the day by voting early and then disappearing. I'm just trying to help roflwaffle, by trying to get him to think about taking his vote seriously and having good reasons for whatever he does. If no one holds anyone accountable mafia can just breeze on by.
Crossfire99
Profile Joined March 2011
United States1529 Posts
June 14 2012 18:23 GMT
#188
I'm just going to go down the thread and respond to people who have questions or suspicions addressed to me. Let me know if I miss your particular post.

First up Austin:
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On June 14 2012 03:37 austinmcc wrote:
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On June 14 2012 01:56 Crossfire99 wrote:
As for my current thoughts:

The bolded part of this post by austin makes me suspicious of him.
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On June 13 2012 22:23 austinmcc wrote:
I don't read those posts as contradictory, believe the second one clarifies the first and explains that, while he'd consider a NL, the standard is higher than "Town is lynching someone that isn't one of my top couple reads."

That said, even if the two statements are entirely contradictory, I don't really see anything scummy in that. More inclined to see contradictions concerning votes and reads as scummy, where someone has stated one thing but then has to take a party line, rather than super early statements concerning a no lynch. There's no agenda to push on that issue.


Two completely contradictory statements without reasoning for the change is very suspicious. This is a good way to catch scum. They know the alignment of every person, so they have to make cases that they know are wrong (excluding bussing). This can lead to contradictory posts to make them better fit in with the current town mindset.

Austin, why don't you think that contradictory statements are suspicious?
They can be, depending on what they concern, and when they occur. See the italicized above, although I should have more explicitly qualified the bolded bit.

If someone had barged into the thread yesterday saying "I love no lynches" and then "I hate no lynches" in the very next post, that's not scummy to me. There's no debate here (nobody is proposing we NL), it's not important at this time (start of day, no NL proposal). There's no scummy reason to swap between those two statements on that particular topic at this particular time.


Thanks for qualifying your statement. I was confused why said it, but now I understand what you meant. I definitely agree with your italicized statement. Differences in voting behavior and reads are very important in finding scum.

Next up Milton:
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On June 14 2012 08:05 Miltonkram wrote:
@ roflwaffles
Ok, I see what you're saying. I thought you were completely backing off of alan even though you've made a decent case against him. I still don't like the fact that you took your vote off of him based on a wrist-slap from Crossfire, but I guess I misunderstood your intent. Since you're still pursuing your case on alan the unvote seems less scummy.

As far as alan133 is concerned I think you may have something. He's put very little pressure on anyone. When he does pressure he seems wishy-washy as hell.

Top two scumreads as of this moment: Mouldy Jeb and alan133.

@Crossfire, Golden, and HeavOnEarth
What do you think of these two players and the cases against them? Are there any scummy players you think we're missing? We need more activity out of you guys. Of the three of you, only heaven's put decent pressure on anyone and even that is difficult to take seriously because he hasn't followed up on his reads at all.


Mouldy: If I can read the time right on his post (hopefully I can lol), he hasn't posted in a day even though he promised a case when he came back from work yesterday. So far he's just thrown around baseless accusations and hasn't contributed. He needs to post.

Alan: I don't like his case on suki. I don't know how she has played in past games, but it seems like she is being open and contributing her own reads and putting in good work like going through my game history (props for doing that, I don't have time for that much research). I also don't like him trying to link people together so early. We know next to nothing so far. Don't make links between supposed "mafia" when no one has even flipped yet. Just find one person based on their scumminess and push to lynch them. This makes me feel a little suspicious of him.

Respone to sciberbia:
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On June 14 2012 14:10 sciberbia wrote:
As promised, here are my thoughts on crossfire and heavonEarth.

crossfire
There isn't any one thing that looks super scummy, but nothing in his filter gives me a townie feel, and there are a handful of small things that suggest he is scum:

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The bolded part of this post by austin makes me suspicious of him.
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On June 13 2012 22:23 austinmcc wrote:
I don't read those posts as contradictory, believe the second one clarifies the first and explains that, while he'd consider a NL, the standard is higher than "Town is lynching someone that isn't one of my top couple reads."

That said, even if the two statements are entirely contradictory, I don't really see anything scummy in that. More inclined to see contradictions concerning votes and reads as scummy, where someone has stated one thing but then has to take a party line, rather than super early statements concerning a no lynch. There's no agenda to push on that issue.


Two completely contradictory statements without reasoning for the change is very suspicious. This is a good way to catch scum. They know the alignment of every person, so they have to make cases that they know are wrong (excluding bussing). This can lead to contradictory posts to make them better fit in with the current town mindset.

Austin, why don't you think that contradictory statements are suspicious?


This is exactly the kind of D1 case I would expect a scum to make. Austin makes the somewhat peculiar assertion that there is nothing scummy about contradicting yourself on policy during the early game. Whether or not you agree with this statement is irrelevant.

The point is, what does a mafia Austin stand to gain by making a statement like this? Is he planning on contradicting himself later? No. It's very likely that he actually believes what he said so the fact that he said it isn't indicative of his alignment. I don't think Austin's statement is scummy at all.

But, it is definitely a statement that a mafia could attack, because it seems illogical. It's easy to criticize. And that's what crossfire did.

This is the kind of thing mafia do D1: attack people for seemingly illogical statements even though it isn't a scumtell. Like the mafia's attacks on Vivax from last game.

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On June 14 2012 03:38 Crossfire99 wrote:
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On June 14 2012 02:45 s0Lstice wrote:
Crossfire99, what do you think of what I said about Mouldy Jeb?

Roflwaffles55, same question.


Yeah Mouldy is acting really weird. He needs to get active to explain himself. Everything he has said so far lacks good reasoning.



s0Lstice, an influential player and good townie, calls Mouldy Jeb his #1 suspicion. s0Lstice then explicitly asks crossfire for an opinion on Mouldy.

Crossfire does exactly what I would expect a mafia to do. Agrees with the influential player on his #1 scumread, reiterating what s0Lstice said. Mouldy Jeb would undoubtedly be an easy lynch today, and assuming that he is town, would take the pressure off mafia.

And if crossfire is so suspicious of MJ, why didn't he say anything until s0Lstice prompted him?

I grant that none of this is solid evidence and that a townie could plausibly act the same way, but crossfire's response is definitely consistent with mafia behavior.

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Looking through the rest of his filter, he doesn't say much meaty stuff. In his first post, he rehashes a lot of what previous people had said. And after that, he talks a lot about policy issues such as when to vote and how to pressure people. Nothing too controversial in his entire filter.


Overall, I'd say crossfire looks a bit scummy.



Yeah I questioned Austin because I found that one sentence suspicious. Isn't that the whole point of this game: to ask questions about suspicious behavior, so they respond and then you can learn more about their alignment. (I also responded to him above)

Yeah I responded to solstice's question. There wasn't much original content that I could put forth at the time. I believe Mouldy had like 3 posts with little content, therefore I agreed with him because it made sense. Also, I had just woken up and responded to what were the hot topics at the moment and then started going through the thread and pointing out different things I saw and responding to questions like solstice's.

Also, sciberbia, you have a lot of expectations about how mafia should play. They can play any way they want. Don't assume that they will play a certain way. Ask austin about anacletus from our game. He had way too many thoughts about how mafia should play and I don't think my mafia team played the way he assumed we would at all.

Another one from Milton:
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On June 14 2012 19:21 Miltonkram wrote:
Ok I've been thinking pretty hard since work and there are three players I would feel good about lynching: Crossfire, HeavOnEarth and MJ.

Crossefire99
His play has already been outlined by sciberbia, so I won't expand on it too much. I'm also really suspicious at the timing of his disappearance from the thread. He hasn't posted since his defense against s0Lstice's probing pressure. It seems like the perfect time to go lurkey if he's scum. He just made his post and then could have hoped that his defense would be enough to keep himself out of further discussion. Obviously it hasn't, but I can definitely see scum motivation in his decision to go silent at the time that he did.

Just to sum up, I feel pretty confident in a lynch of any of these three players. I'll gladly put my vote behind any of them.

In regards to suki, I'm really on the fence about her. My opinion keeps flip-flopping as I read through her filter. I'm no longer confident in my suspicion of her. I liked parts of her defense and then her later pressure on alan, but there are parts I didn't like too. I'm withholding judgement until I have more time to think on her play.


I can't do anything about my posting times. I pop in, read some, and post when I have time. I can't make any promises about the exact times that this will be so...idk what else to say.

On to Suki:
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On June 15 2012 00:06 suki wrote:
Let me go over my reads of the other players.

Crossfire99:

I spent a lot of time trying to figure out if he is scum or not. Looking into the filter of his two previous games, I found that his posting style is more or less the same.

In game 1, he rolls blue and lurks quite hard. He states out of game reasons for lurking, but he plays more or less non-commital, pointing out suspicious behavior but not really heavily pressuring anyone.

In game 2 as mafia, he starts out the game by doing two things. First, he posts a defense of a townie that had come under scrutiny. Second, he immediately starts pointing out errors in one particular person's posts. He actually tunnels this person for the entire Day 1 and only just fails to get him lynched. He survives for the whole game without really being under fire and mafia wins the game.

In this game I see a lot of policy talk, a lot of guidance talk, and hardly any pressure at all. I find it quite different from his previously successful mafia play. In addition, his helpful tone is quite present in the mafia QT from the previous game, which makes me feel more inclined to think he's actually trying to help, despite his posts not really pressuring or helping town much.

Basically, his meta has changed from his last scum game, and it's changed in a confusing way, and he isn't using the tactics that lead him to a win in the previous game. I'm waiting for more contributions from him before deciding whether I think he's scum or not.


Impressive research. I hadn't even thought about my helpfulness until you pointed that out until. I'll let people make their own conclusions about this, so I'll leave it at that.


Crossfire99
Profile Joined March 2011
United States1529 Posts
June 14 2012 18:28 GMT
#189
On June 15 2012 02:44 roflwaffles55 wrote:
I'm going to post as though all of these people are scum, and the impact they have a chance to make if they are left alive. I think it will give a different way of thinking about it.

Crossfire99

Sciberbia posted a convincing case on him already, and several people have posted tidbits on him, however, nobody has put the focus on him (partially my fault). Therefore, if he is in fact following the thread and trying slide under the radar of suspicion while we focus on alan133, suki, and HeavOnEarth, he is going to get away with it.

His play was very lackluster and never brought fresh reads to the table. Out of everyone, if he is scum, he seems to be one of the most dangerous to let live.

I believe that the most lynchable potential scum right now would be Crossfire99. I understand that there are already votes on HeavOnEarth, but if he really is that incompetent at bringing cases to the table, as a scum, why would he try to post them? He is suspicious to me, but not as suspicious as Crossfire. Unless he responds to the accusations in a convincing and collected manner soon, I strongly believe that he should be lynched.

##vote Crossfire99


Let me know if I didn't respond enough for your liking. I'll be gone for a few hours and then I'll be back for the deadline to respond more and vote.
Crossfire99
Profile Joined March 2011
United States1529 Posts
June 15 2012 03:54 GMT
#254
Sorry I missed the vote. We lynched a scum, so great job everybody. I was going to be here before the vote, but then my car became the victim of a hit and run accident (see spoiler for proof)+ Show Spoiler +
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. The last i don't know how many hours I have been going back and forth with different police officers and waiting for them, etc to get this all sorted out (it still isn't over).

I just logged on now to post an update because I'm sure some of you were probably wondering where I went. I'll be reading through the thread for what little time I have now and respond to some questions people had for me.

Am I going to be modkilled?
Crossfire99
Profile Joined March 2011
United States1529 Posts
June 15 2012 04:25 GMT
#256
First I'll go with roflwaffle:
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On June 15 2012 04:03 roflwaffles55 wrote:
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On June 15 2012 03:23 Crossfire99 wrote:
I'm just going to go down the thread and respond to people who have questions or suspicions addressed to me. Let me know if I miss your particular post.

First up Austin:
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On June 14 2012 03:37 austinmcc wrote:
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On June 14 2012 01:56 Crossfire99 wrote:
As for my current thoughts:

The bolded part of this post by austin makes me suspicious of him.
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On June 13 2012 22:23 austinmcc wrote:
I don't read those posts as contradictory, believe the second one clarifies the first and explains that, while he'd consider a NL, the standard is higher than "Town is lynching someone that isn't one of my top couple reads."

That said, even if the two statements are entirely contradictory, I don't really see anything scummy in that. More inclined to see contradictions concerning votes and reads as scummy, where someone has stated one thing but then has to take a party line, rather than super early statements concerning a no lynch. There's no agenda to push on that issue.


Two completely contradictory statements without reasoning for the change is very suspicious. This is a good way to catch scum. They know the alignment of every person, so they have to make cases that they know are wrong (excluding bussing). This can lead to contradictory posts to make them better fit in with the current town mindset.

Austin, why don't you think that contradictory statements are suspicious?
They can be, depending on what they concern, and when they occur. See the italicized above, although I should have more explicitly qualified the bolded bit.

If someone had barged into the thread yesterday saying "I love no lynches" and then "I hate no lynches" in the very next post, that's not scummy to me. There's no debate here (nobody is proposing we NL), it's not important at this time (start of day, no NL proposal). There's no scummy reason to swap between those two statements on that particular topic at this particular time.


Thanks for qualifying your statement. I was confused why said it, but now I understand what you meant. I definitely agree with your italicized statement. Differences in voting behavior and reads are very important in finding scum.

Next up Milton:
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On June 14 2012 08:05 Miltonkram wrote:
@ roflwaffles
Ok, I see what you're saying. I thought you were completely backing off of alan even though you've made a decent case against him. I still don't like the fact that you took your vote off of him based on a wrist-slap from Crossfire, but I guess I misunderstood your intent. Since you're still pursuing your case on alan the unvote seems less scummy.

As far as alan133 is concerned I think you may have something. He's put very little pressure on anyone. When he does pressure he seems wishy-washy as hell.

Top two scumreads as of this moment: Mouldy Jeb and alan133.

@Crossfire, Golden, and HeavOnEarth
What do you think of these two players and the cases against them? Are there any scummy players you think we're missing? We need more activity out of you guys. Of the three of you, only heaven's put decent pressure on anyone and even that is difficult to take seriously because he hasn't followed up on his reads at all.


Mouldy: If I can read the time right on his post (hopefully I can lol), he hasn't posted in a day even though he promised a case when he came back from work yesterday. So far he's just thrown around baseless accusations and hasn't contributed. He needs to post.

Alan: I don't like his case on suki. I don't know how she has played in past games, but it seems like she is being open and contributing her own reads and putting in good work like going through my game history (props for doing that, I don't have time for that much research). I also don't like him trying to link people together so early. We know next to nothing so far. Don't make links between supposed "mafia" when no one has even flipped yet. Just find one person based on their scumminess and push to lynch them. This makes me feel a little suspicious of him.

Respone to sciberbia:
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On June 14 2012 14:10 sciberbia wrote:
As promised, here are my thoughts on crossfire and heavonEarth.

crossfire
There isn't any one thing that looks super scummy, but nothing in his filter gives me a townie feel, and there are a handful of small things that suggest he is scum:

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The bolded part of this post by austin makes me suspicious of him.
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On June 13 2012 22:23 austinmcc wrote:
I don't read those posts as contradictory, believe the second one clarifies the first and explains that, while he'd consider a NL, the standard is higher than "Town is lynching someone that isn't one of my top couple reads."

That said, even if the two statements are entirely contradictory, I don't really see anything scummy in that. More inclined to see contradictions concerning votes and reads as scummy, where someone has stated one thing but then has to take a party line, rather than super early statements concerning a no lynch. There's no agenda to push on that issue.


Two completely contradictory statements without reasoning for the change is very suspicious. This is a good way to catch scum. They know the alignment of every person, so they have to make cases that they know are wrong (excluding bussing). This can lead to contradictory posts to make them better fit in with the current town mindset.

Austin, why don't you think that contradictory statements are suspicious?


This is exactly the kind of D1 case I would expect a scum to make. Austin makes the somewhat peculiar assertion that there is nothing scummy about contradicting yourself on policy during the early game. Whether or not you agree with this statement is irrelevant.

The point is, what does a mafia Austin stand to gain by making a statement like this? Is he planning on contradicting himself later? No. It's very likely that he actually believes what he said so the fact that he said it isn't indicative of his alignment. I don't think Austin's statement is scummy at all.

But, it is definitely a statement that a mafia could attack, because it seems illogical. It's easy to criticize. And that's what crossfire did.

This is the kind of thing mafia do D1: attack people for seemingly illogical statements even though it isn't a scumtell. Like the mafia's attacks on Vivax from last game.

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On June 14 2012 03:38 Crossfire99 wrote:
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On June 14 2012 02:45 s0Lstice wrote:
Crossfire99, what do you think of what I said about Mouldy Jeb?

Roflwaffles55, same question.


Yeah Mouldy is acting really weird. He needs to get active to explain himself. Everything he has said so far lacks good reasoning.



s0Lstice, an influential player and good townie, calls Mouldy Jeb his #1 suspicion. s0Lstice then explicitly asks crossfire for an opinion on Mouldy.

Crossfire does exactly what I would expect a mafia to do. Agrees with the influential player on his #1 scumread, reiterating what s0Lstice said. Mouldy Jeb would undoubtedly be an easy lynch today, and assuming that he is town, would take the pressure off mafia.

And if crossfire is so suspicious of MJ, why didn't he say anything until s0Lstice prompted him?

I grant that none of this is solid evidence and that a townie could plausibly act the same way, but crossfire's response is definitely consistent with mafia behavior.

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Looking through the rest of his filter, he doesn't say much meaty stuff. In his first post, he rehashes a lot of what previous people had said. And after that, he talks a lot about policy issues such as when to vote and how to pressure people. Nothing too controversial in his entire filter.


Overall, I'd say crossfire looks a bit scummy.



Yeah I questioned Austin because I found that one sentence suspicious. Isn't that the whole point of this game: to ask questions about suspicious behavior, so they respond and then you can learn more about their alignment. (I also responded to him above)

Yeah I responded to solstice's question. There wasn't much original content that I could put forth at the time. I believe Mouldy had like 3 posts with little content, therefore I agreed with him because it made sense. Also, I had just woken up and responded to what were the hot topics at the moment and then started going through the thread and pointing out different things I saw and responding to questions like solstice's.

Also, sciberbia, you have a lot of expectations about how mafia should play. They can play any way they want. Don't assume that they will play a certain way. Ask austin about anacletus from our game. He had way too many thoughts about how mafia should play and I don't think my mafia team played the way he assumed we would at all.

Another one from Milton:
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On June 14 2012 19:21 Miltonkram wrote:
Ok I've been thinking pretty hard since work and there are three players I would feel good about lynching: Crossfire, HeavOnEarth and MJ.

Crossefire99
His play has already been outlined by sciberbia, so I won't expand on it too much. I'm also really suspicious at the timing of his disappearance from the thread. He hasn't posted since his defense against s0Lstice's probing pressure. It seems like the perfect time to go lurkey if he's scum. He just made his post and then could have hoped that his defense would be enough to keep himself out of further discussion. Obviously it hasn't, but I can definitely see scum motivation in his decision to go silent at the time that he did.

Just to sum up, I feel pretty confident in a lynch of any of these three players. I'll gladly put my vote behind any of them.

In regards to suki, I'm really on the fence about her. My opinion keeps flip-flopping as I read through her filter. I'm no longer confident in my suspicion of her. I liked parts of her defense and then her later pressure on alan, but there are parts I didn't like too. I'm withholding judgement until I have more time to think on her play.


I can't do anything about my posting times. I pop in, read some, and post when I have time. I can't make any promises about the exact times that this will be so...idk what else to say.

On to Suki:
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On June 15 2012 00:06 suki wrote:
Let me go over my reads of the other players.

Crossfire99:

I spent a lot of time trying to figure out if he is scum or not. Looking into the filter of his two previous games, I found that his posting style is more or less the same.

In game 1, he rolls blue and lurks quite hard. He states out of game reasons for lurking, but he plays more or less non-commital, pointing out suspicious behavior but not really heavily pressuring anyone.

In game 2 as mafia, he starts out the game by doing two things. First, he posts a defense of a townie that had come under scrutiny. Second, he immediately starts pointing out errors in one particular person's posts. He actually tunnels this person for the entire Day 1 and only just fails to get him lynched. He survives for the whole game without really being under fire and mafia wins the game.

In this game I see a lot of policy talk, a lot of guidance talk, and hardly any pressure at all. I find it quite different from his previously successful mafia play. In addition, his helpful tone is quite present in the mafia QT from the previous game, which makes me feel more inclined to think he's actually trying to help, despite his posts not really pressuring or helping town much.

Basically, his meta has changed from his last scum game, and it's changed in a confusing way, and he isn't using the tactics that lead him to a win in the previous game. I'm waiting for more contributions from him before deciding whether I think he's scum or not.


Impressive research. I hadn't even thought about my helpfulness until you pointed that out until. I'll let people make their own conclusions about this, so I'll leave it at that.





Your responses to s0lstice were clearly lacking, you said that you questioned austin on his sentence to extract some information, however you never actually followed up on your question. While that may have something to do with your posting schedule, it is still a problem. You can't expect to play the game and get away with posting no real cases and content without being lynched. As of yet, you still have not formed your own suspicions it seems, you're just giving your opinion on other people's suspicions.

The MJ question I'll let you off on because there's honestly nothing to talk about with him. As to s0lstice's third point, you never responded as to why you haven't been more actively scumhunting.



I backed off my pressure of Austin because it was just that one question that I had that really jumped out to me. He explained himself sufficiently so I felt no further need to pressure him on that issue. I haven't been scum hunting because I didn't have the time the first time I posted. When I posted the second group of posts, I had to go out for bit right after and was going to scum hunt when I got back, but then my whole car situation happened, so that's the reason.

Now for Austin:
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On June 15 2012 08:28 austinmcc wrote:
That leaves me with cross.
##Vote: Crossfire99

What I'd ask of everyone is to show me where Crossfire has done any scumhunting. He posted a little, dropped off the face of the earth, came back, responded to everyone's comments towards him, but never even gave us a single read throughout the day. Nobody looked scummy, because he really just didn't comment on ANYONE. I'm confused as to how that can be towny behavior, and he dropped in, spent time responding to all these people, but spent 0 characters doing any kind of hunting himself.

Lurking is bad, but you can lurk and contribute when you pop up. HeavOnEarth didn't contribute when he came back. Crossfire didn't contribute when he came back, except addressing our concerns about him. Between the timing of the votes on HeavOn and the lack of any push on him, I'd rather go with Crossfire today.


Austin, the only thing I can say to you is that I know you will hold me accountable and make sure I post good stuff after I'm done with what I get done tonight. Hopefully I'll make it to day 2, so that you can see I'm trying. I also implore you consider that you might be getting a lot of your certainty and strong feelings on me from our last game. Try to look past that game, and look how I'm playing this game.
Crossfire99
Profile Joined March 2011
United States1529 Posts
June 15 2012 05:24 GMT
#260
Ok now let's analyze this lynch.

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On June 14 2012 10:07 s0Lstice wrote:
Alright, so I went filter spelunking and explored every nook and cranny. My general impression at this moment is one of disappointment. I know it's rare to get good reads on day 1, but some people's filters are incredibly barren. If I had to lynch right now, here would be my suspects.

HeavOnEarth
He's pretty lurky. His hard stance is on Golden, where he builds a case on the poor guy's intro post. Look at the case:

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On June 13 2012 23:52 HeavOnEarth wrote:
morning everyone
First off, id like to say im suspicious of everyone who tries to stay under the radar. I feel newer mafia players have a tendency to try and stay quiet.
That said O.Golden_ne looks the most suspicious to me-

On June 13 2012 09:43 O.Golden_ne wrote:
On June 13 2012 09:25 austinmcc wrote:
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I'm not looking to push lurkers early and stay on them for an entire day cycle, killing discussion, but they need to be considered and I'd rather be looking at them on earlier days than when we're close to/at LYLO/MYLO.


agreed.

NL is bad. Killing lurking is necessary. Lynching scum is great.

Lets get the ball rolling and squeeze out the lurkers early so we can narrow things down later on. Looking forward to scumhunting, i'm happy with the deadline on this as its 10am for me in Aust, which means i'll be able to meet the deadlines for lynching in the mornings a little easier.

I'll try my hardest this game to meet these deadlines and to contribute useful information rather than filler.

Essentially i'm all for an agressive early game. I want to be able to establish some basic reads by the end of Day one, and if theres no-one who's appropriately scummy then we lynch a lurker.

Golden


Is there anything even remotely helpful in this post? Everyone knows NL is bad. he seems to be posting for the sake of it
also, i checked his last game, (he was townie)
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=337671&user=92568
u can tell his tone is completely different, and he is generally more helpful.


Think of it like this. Scum will be making cases against people on day 1...they have to. I looked at all the cases people have made, and this one stank especially bad. It's built entirely around a hello post. It has a very artificial feel to it.

Also, he just posted this:

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On June 14 2012 08:47 HeavOnEarth wrote:
On June 14 2012 08:38 s0Lstice wrote:
Just checking in guys. I'm going to make a post on my top scumreads in a few hours, as well as some errata. Lynch time is fast approaching and we really need to buckle down.

? lynch isn't for another 24 hours?


Townies always feel the pressure of the ticking clock. Half of our time being gone doesn't seem to trouble him. He hasn't really bothered to comment on what's been going on in the thread outside of his own reads.

He's been on Mouldy Jeb's case as well. Here's some more recent(!) material:

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On June 14 2012 09:32 HeavOnEarth wrote:
was sort of waiting for MJ to post something after he was like hurr durr ima post soon. i took a look at his previous game though and his posts seem consistent from when he was townie. hes really not helping at all, and definitely still looks scum, but it feels like poor town play rather than mafia.


Confused? Me too. I think this dude has a chance at flipping scum.

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On June 15 2012 00:50 s0Lstice wrote:
Some housekeeping stuff first..

I am removing alan133 from my scum list. The main thing that had me suspicious was his strong-arm defense, but everything following that has been fine. I like that he is holding himself accountable for his style, and I want to see what he can do when not under pressure.

austin and suki have commented on crossfire99, and I have to say I agree. I was planning on wrighting a post similar to what suki has done. The cogent point is that he has long bouts of inactivity when he is both scum and town. He should get the same level of suspicion that every lurker gets, but nothing special beyond that I feel. His filter right now is pretty garbagey, and hard to get a read on. I wouldn't be upset if we lynched him, but I think we can do better.

Here is better: HeavOnEarth. Nothing has happened to change my initial opinion on him for the better. In fact, him buddying up to sciberbia in his latest post makes him look worse. Go read my case if you missed it. I'm not the only one to see him as suspicious, so I think there is plenty of traction here.

##vote HeavOnEarth
. His case on Heavon was solid and good. It doesn't seem like a mafia bus attempt to me (it's too well thought out and puts legit pressure on Heavon), so I see him as a townie.

Then alan joins the fun with this + Show Spoiler +
On June 15 2012 04:00 alan133 wrote:
I see the current pressure are easing off from me. I also realize I has pretty much ignored everyone else except for rolf and suki.

@HeavOnEarth
His first few points seem disconnected. None of them relates to each other: From FoSing Golden for his opening post, + Show Spoiler +
And I thought rofl@me and suki@trap was bad
later jumping to accusing Mouldy Jeb (he was an easy target), and then commenting on s0ltice's preception on lynch time + Show Spoiler +
On June 14 2012 08:47 HeavOnEarth wrote:
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On June 14 2012 08:38 s0Lstice wrote:
Just checking in guys. I'm going to make a post on my top scumreads in a few hours, as well as some errata. Lynch time is fast approaching and we really need to buckle down.

? lynch isn't for another 24 hours?

.

He also state that he is waiting for responses. Upon being debunked on Gold's read, he basically dismiss it similar the way suki has dismissed her case on trap, claiming they are trying to start conversation. In suki's case, this is still believable. Before her case there was no controversy, and very little to talk about. However, when Heave posted on Gold, there were already controversies + Show Spoiler +
rolf@me suki@trap
and he ignore them altogether. I interpret his motive is to lynch a lurker over an already presented scummy player, and this can hardly be town.

Very Suspicious

Right now, I find Heav and MJ were the best lynch candidates, and HeavOnEarth appears to be more scummy

##unvote: Suki
##vote: HeavOnEarth

I am off to bed, it is 3 am right here. I will get up in 4 hours so we can get a successful lynch.

Another refresh reveals more post from crossfire. My opinion on him has not swayed.
. He did some good analysis on Heavon and defend himself against suki well, so I feel he is townie right now.

Next suki comes to the party + Show Spoiler +
On June 15 2012 04:58 suki wrote:
HeavOnEarth:


Okay, something really really sticks out to me in Heavon's first post, and it's not about golden.

It's this particular line:

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also id like to point out crossfire is completely inactive, whereas in past games he was a pretty talkative little townie.
thoughts?


Above, I posted my opinions on Crossfire, where I had gone through pretty much his entire filter in his two previous games, and the big thing I noted was that Crossfire LURKED very hard in his first game as blue, and somewhat lurked in the second game as red.

HeavOn clearly is talking about Crossfire's game as blue, 'He was a pretty talkative little townie'. This is clearly wrong.

He continues his case against Crossfire later after sciberbia brings it up. This has already been labelled as suspicious. It's a big point against him that he waited until someone else pointed fingers at Crossfire, when he had so early established a read on Crossfire - a fairly in depth read as he had even looked at Crossfire's filters from previous games.

The thing is, the case HeavOn makes against crossfire disregards the previous game filters. Crossfire, as mafia, was assertive actively pushed cases against other players. He also lurked quite a bit.


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As for golden i admit my analysis was pretty damn bad LOL , but he didn't really have any other posts for me to provoke him with, and i still feel its a strong play to accuse lurkers of being scummy, just to get them to talk. The way he went about replying though felt really odd to me. For example, i don't really care if you're taking a few mins to write up a post. Why tell me about it(unless you're about to be majority lynched or something). Just feels off.


HeavOn votes for Golden despite saying that his case against Golden is weak. He doesn't back off however, stating that the response was scummy and that the scummy thing about it was how golden was commenting on the time it would take to make his posts? Seems like a very strained argument to make.

I see clear scum motivation in voting for golden. In my previous game as mafia, I harped on Miltonkram for his early vote against sciberbia. Even when my argument was convincingly rebutted, I continued to press my case against him finding any sort of scummy intent I could make up. Why? Because I didn't want to be wishy-washy.

HeavOn's case against golden is that golden 'just feels off'. This makes Golden a 'solid lynch' to him.


I'm out of time, but that's my insight into HeavOn. I feel that there can definitely be scum motivation behind his posts. I haven't had time to closely look at other people but for now HeavOn is clearly a scummier target than alan.

##unvote alan113
##vote HeavOnEarth
. Suki follows up with some more good analysis on Heavon and I see her also as town.

Those three I mentioned above all brought solid analysis and new thoughts on Heavon, so I feel confident in seeing them as town for right now.

Then Milton (+ Show Spoiler +
On June 15 2012 04:59 Miltonkram wrote:
Oops, slept in a bit later than I'd planned. s0Lstice, I'm inclined to agree with you. HeavOnEarth looks like the best lynch candidate.

Everybody, I'd suggest you take a look at him. His filter is not particularly long, but I think there is enough scummy behavior there to warrant a vote.

##Vote: HeavOnEarth
), roflwaffle (+ Show Spoiler +
On June 15 2012 05:09 roflwaffles55 wrote:
I noticed already that his play was scummy, however I felt like it was the easy way out, I was hoping to nail a more influential scum D1, but I guess that's just new player optimism... If he flips scum, I'm not sure what kind of information we're going to gain from it as his posts don't seem to link him to anyone.. and if he flips town then all we really know is that he was a poor townie.

I'll go with the flow because he's fairly blatant with his scumminess (real word?) but I'd like to keep an eye on Crossfire, as well as keeping Mouldy Jeb in mind for a D2 lynch.

##unvote Crossfire99
##vote HeavOnEarth

I'm not sure if I'll be on tonight, I'll do my absolute best to be on in case there's a swing of opinion.
), and Golden (+ Show Spoiler +
On June 15 2012 06:27 O.Golden_ne wrote:

in regards to HeavonEarth.
In relation to my:
a) knowing i'm town.
b) Him trying to bus me one the grounds of "seems like a solid case".
c) lacklustre contribution and no rebuttle to any arguments.
i feel like he see's a bandwagon forming and jumps on straight away.


#VOTE: HeavonEarth

i still maintain a #FOS on MouldyJeb
i still owe the group a comment on Crossfire99 but i honestly dont have time for it before work.
) all jump on the bandwagon without much new to add (not necessarily scummy in and of itself, there is only so much one can add based on one day's filter). I did notice a really weird thing about roflwaffle's post, though. He's upset that we are going to get too easy of a lynch and said that he knows Heavon is suspicious but thinks it's more worthwhile to attack someone with more influence like me (huh?, I've been under suspicion all day, if anything that makes people look at me more closely, there's no way I'm going to be influential). Also, his suspicion of Heavon up to that point consists of this + Show Spoiler +
On June 15 2012 02:44 roflwaffles55 wrote:
I'm going to post as though all of these people are scum, and the impact they have a chance to make if they are left alive. I think it will give a different way of thinking about it.

HeavOnEarth

His play is quite suspicious and his accusations and suspicions lackluster at best. He could just as easily be an awful townie as scum.

Overall he's been fairly ineffectual, but if he's hiding behind a mask of confusion and bad reads, he could be an annoyance as scum later on.

I believe that the most lynchable potential scum right now would be Crossfire99. I understand that there are already votes on HeavOnEarth, but if he really is that incompetent at bringing cases to the table, as a scum, why would he try to post them? He is suspicious to me, but not as suspicious as Crossfire. Unless he responds to the accusations in a convincing and collected manner soon, I strongly believe that he should be lynched.

##vote Crossfire99
. All of this suspicion came after solstice's case against Heavon and he adds nothing new to it except postulating that he could be an awful townie (we now know that's not true). This makes me suspicious of roflwaffle.

This is followed by sciberbia's vote + Show Spoiler +
On June 15 2012 07:56 sciberbia wrote:
My thoughts on HeavOnEarth:

I was originally somewhat suspicious of him for throwing suspicion onto a handful of easy targets, and then becoming wishy/washy about it. He has since made me more suspicious with his response and attitude towards golden.

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On June 14 2012 20:15 HeavOnEarth wrote:
As for golden i admit my analysis was pretty damn bad LOL , but he didn't really have any other posts for me to provoke him with, and i still feel its a strong play to accuse lurkers of being scummy, just to get them to talk. The way he went about replying though felt really odd to me. For example, i don't really care if you're taking a few mins to write up a post. Why tell me about it(unless you're about to be majority lynched or something). Just feels off.


First of all, he admits that his case was "pretty damn bad" and LOL's about it. I see this as slightly scummy. He is being ingratiating and agreeable, rather than firm, objective, and analytic. This is more typical of mafia than of townies.

Next HeavOnEarth says that there were no other posts to provoke Golden with. The question I'm left asking myself is: why did HeavOnEarth feel that he had to attack Golden at all? He says it was strong play of him to "accuse lurkers of being scummy", but at the time of HeavOnEarth's accusation, golden didn't look lurky. Golden made 1 post in the first 4 hours of the game, and then HeavOnEarth accused him. 1 decent-sized post in the first 4 hours isn't lurky. Why was HeavOnEarth looking for a reason to "provoke him"?

Finally, heavOnEarth refuses to back down from his suspicions of golden, and even ends up voting golden, but doesn't give any good reasons. He just says that golden's posting seems odd. Odd =/= scummy. It looks like he just arbitrarily picked a target to attack at the beginning and now won't back down.

Overall, I think he has a good chance of being mafia and I'm happy with lynching him.

##Vote HeavOnEarth
. He gives some good reasoning for his vote, but I feel it is too late in the bandwagon to say this makes him townie. It could be a mafia finally realizing that his partner is done for and needs to jump on to be less suspicious. I'll leave this as a null read for now.

Then austin comes in and votes for me with this + Show Spoiler +
On June 15 2012 08:28 austinmcc wrote:
I think Heavon looks scummy. But his voting took off after he posted that he was going to be gone for auto repairs. And there's been very little pushback. I'm particularly worried by: (1) us going for the guy who basically said "Won't be around to defend myself," and (2) the lack of any pushback against him, when we had multiple targets recently. There could be some bussing going on, but we had a couple other juicy targets, and I wouldn't expect a bus in that situation. At the very least, my stance right now is that he doesn't look good, but the vast majority of the votes and comments on him seem to have occurred after he said he was leaving. I don't want to lynch him today based on that alone.

See your comment towards him. Yes, his reads would help town. Yes, he ought to defend himself. But he may actually have been gone these last few hours, and I want to see his response before I lynch him. If it looks bad, there's D2. I think I'm saying the same thing over and over, so I'll knock it off.

Apart from those basic statements, I'll note this. He DOES fit into a category of people trying to look like they're scumhunting but not. The 1 post suspicion of Golden, his comment on MJ -
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On June 14 2012 02:39 HeavOnEarth wrote:
check out Mouldy Jeb's posts, and accusations
On June 14 2012 00:20 Mouldy Jeb wrote:
nope roffle that was a gut feeling about you that why I stated I have no evidence


Why would someone try to direct suspicions with NO reasoning?
his chiming in on crossfire - + Show Spoiler +
On June 14 2012 20:15 HeavOnEarth wrote:
@Sciberbia
in addition to what u said on crossfire, notice that he
1) only replies when called out. Every message he is replying to someone, not making his own points aside from his opening.
2) Every one of his posts feels like complete filler to me. he is trying to LOOK helpful, without actively contributing anything
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On June 14 2012 02:06 Crossfire99 wrote:
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On June 14 2012 02:00 roflwaffles55 wrote:
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On June 14 2012 01:56 Crossfire99 wrote:
Just woke up. I'll start with that only as a last resort will I be for lynching a lurker Day 1. If we can get some good scum hunting done Day 1 we will have a more productive lynch than just a random lurker. Now onto what has been happening.

On the whole suki and trapdoor issue:
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On June 13 2012 12:44 suki wrote:
Is it just me or is trackd00r coming off as scummy already?

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If I understood correctly, it doesn't mean that I would stop any lynch that I didn't mention on my analysis. Just because I have a candidate for lynch, it doesn't imply that I discard any other possibility.

It's something related to common sense. If any other cases are convincing enough, I'll throw my vote there in the case I can't get a majority. In the other hand, if we end up like RNG lynching (which is a bad idea), any other poster that could be doing silly mistakes, or even a player practically saying ''hey guys, I'm mafia, lynch me'' that's when it goes against my mindset. Any possibility is valuable, but if there is something absurdly wrong, I'll call it, even if that means a no lynch.


This post screams to me that he's trying to be super cautious with his words, so that he'll have a safety net if/when he ever changes a vote or bandwagons on someone else. He throws out some 'obvious' examples of reasons of what wouldn't agree with him, and even mentions that he would follow through on a read, even if it that means a no lynch.

BUT WAIT! Just ONE post previous to that he says this:

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I won't accept a NO LYNCH unless I believe we may have a serious mislynch coming.


...

Dude. You try to take a firm stance against something, and then you do the most scummy wishy-washy-ness thing ever the very next post. You're clearly informed about mafia as you brought up the idea of a day 1 RNG lynch, and being against a no lynch is not a difficult or complicated policy to hold. I feel that such a simple logical slip only happens if you're trying to play it safe and keep your options open.

##vote trackd00r


I think suki was just being aggressive. I admit that I found trapdoor's response post to be weird, but then I realized that English is probably not his native language, so I reread it a few times. I don't see a contradiction in there, he is just explaining that he would try to stop a lynch that he really believed was on a townie. I'll give suki the benefit of the doubt on this case and say she is an over eager townie for now.

On roflwaffle and alan:
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On June 13 2012 22:28 roflwaffles55 wrote:
I woke up this morning to the arguments made towards trackd00r, and while the arguments made against him weren't particularly convincing, his defense was a little bit lackluster as well.

However, I would like to bring your attention to someone else that is acting quite scummy as it stands.


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On June 13 2012 13:05 alan133 wrote:
On June 13 2012 11:12 roflwaffles55 wrote:
On June 13 2012 11:03 alan133 wrote:
Good morning everyone. Looks like the first thing I am going to do in the office is to play mafia on TL. I don't recognize anyone here since this is my first game, well except for s0Lsitce since he is in the game I read. That's my brief introduction, and habitually in the beginning of any game, GLHF.

I am new and am unsure how to proceed with the game, but my current strategy is to wait for more post to come. Currently I have no FoS. That also mean I do not trust anyone yet.


What are your thoughts on what's been posted as of yet?


On the inactive/lurkers lynch
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I believe inactive players/lurkers are generally anti-town/bad town play in any mafia game, so lynching them isn't a bad idea (Since I believe d1 lynch is good, refer below), if there aren't better candidates of course.


On the day 1 lynch/no lynch
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I agree on lynching day 1 based on my experience with other mafia games (outside TL) with similar setup. By reading other games on TL I also notice the current meta game is to lynch when there are more players, as it gives townies clues.


I am off to lunch, will be commenting on my thoughts later as I see some interesting posts/votes already.


His first post puts him on the bandwagon with his opinion on the inactives and lurkers, and is generally a contentless post with little to no controversy. Otherwise, nothing to bring the spotlight to him at all.

While this is not by any means evidence of scummy play, there comes to attention the next post he makes.

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On June 13 2012 15:40 alan133 wrote:
My thoughts on suki's case:
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Any possibility is valuable, but if there is something absurdly wrong, I'll call it, even if that means a no lynch.

I won't accept a NO LYNCH unless I believe we may have a serious mislynch coming.

I started writing before I refresh and saw s0lstice's post. As he already pointed it out, there are no contradictions between the two statements. trackd00r merely states that NL is bad unless it is a "serious" mislynch in both highlighted sentence. If I am missing something, please correct me.

Also, Miltonkram:
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On June 13 2012 10:35 Miltonkram wrote:
Hey all, glad to see we've got a bit of activity already.

In NMM XV we actually had a decent discussion about no-lynches (involving me making a fool of myself) and how they can actually be beneficial in certain setups. That being said, we don't know for certain if we'll have any modkills so we should leave no-lynches off the table until we hit the unlikely scenario that a no-lynch is beneficial for the town.

Town, the best way to contribute is just to get posting. Let everyone know what your thoughts are. Did someone post something suspicious? Let us know about it. Do you think the town is making a bad move? Let us know about it. If a townie lurks he/she is letting down his/her entire team. So don't do it, K? I'm sooooooooper serious. Like sooooper, soooooooooooper serious.

Hey sciberbia, remember this
##Vote: sciberbia
...heh heh heh


Is it me or you are not actually + Show Spoiler +
soooooooooooooooooper serious
? I personally think (well played) townies are not the ones that bluffs around, let alone voting someone without any reason at all? Generally, fooling around, to me, is anti-town/ bad town play.


My current opinion
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FMPOV, suki's case was most probably based on a misunderstanding, but (s)he could very well did it intentionally hoping for a bandwagon leading to a mislynch. Note that I am merely listing the possibilities, I do not FoS anyone yet, which can also mean that I do not trust anyone yet.


This is the post that really got me wondering. How by now can you have no suspicions? There has been quite a few suspicious decisions by several people, giving you more then enough time to form a case against someone, or at least apply some pressure.

His statement about trackd00r comes after s0lstice, leaving his opinion tied to a fairly influential player and just reiterating what s0lstice said with no additional evidence or opinionated comments. Again, seeming like he's contributing without actually bringing anything to the table.

He throws around some suspicion towards Miltonkram, however not enough to constitute a case or apply any pressure, just enough to make people go filter milton and consider what he might have done, which yet again, leaves him out of the spotlight.

The last statement he makes in this post is the most suspicious and the largest tell of his indecision and lack of real input. He restates his opinion that suki's case is a misunderstanding, again, nothing of value. He then continues to explain that he has no FoS and that he doesn't trust anyone, leaving his options open, and having no real contrary opinions.

His current play is anti-town at best, as he hasn't brought any of his thoughts to the table, and has only left ambiguous and bandwagoning answers to keep attention on those with controversial opinions.


I think roflwaffle is jumping a little too hard on alan here. It is like 1/3 of the way through Day 1. We are not going to have a lot to work with and consequently we aren't going to really know what to think of people until we get more information. Therefore, I feel alan is playing smartly by not rushing to find every little thing that might possibly be suspicious and throw a vote on someone because of it.

On Milton: He was just joking around. If he doesn't stop then I'll start getting suspicious of him.

As for my current thoughts:

The bolded part of this post by austin makes me suspicious of him.
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On June 13 2012 22:23 austinmcc wrote:
I don't read those posts as contradictory, believe the second one clarifies the first and explains that, while he'd consider a NL, the standard is higher than "Town is lynching someone that isn't one of my top couple reads."

That said, even if the two statements are entirely contradictory, I don't really see anything scummy in that. More inclined to see contradictions concerning votes and reads as scummy, where someone has stated one thing but then has to take a party line, rather than super early statements concerning a no lynch. There's no agenda to push on that issue.


Two completely contradictory statements without reasoning for the change is very suspicious. This is a good way to catch scum. They know the alignment of every person, so they have to make cases that they know are wrong (excluding bussing). This can lead to contradictory posts to make them better fit in with the current town mindset.

Austin, why don't you think that contradictory statements are suspicious?


We need more information, and the only way to get that information is by pressuring people, scum starts with an information advantage and the faster we work to even that out, the better position we'll be in.


I agree that we need more information and we get that from pressuring people, but we need to do that smartly. If too many people are throwing around minor accusations all the time, it just confuses the town and allows mafia to sit back and laugh. That is what happened in NMM XIII when I was mafia. Ask austin, he was in it too.

On June 14 2012 03:38 Crossfire99 wrote:
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On June 14 2012 02:45 s0Lstice wrote:
Crossfire99, what do you think of what I said about Mouldy Jeb?

Roflwaffles55, same question.


Yeah Mouldy is acting really weird. He needs to get active to explain himself. Everything he has said so far lacks good reasoning.

On June 14 2012 03:50 Crossfire99 wrote:
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On June 14 2012 03:24 s0Lstice wrote:
On June 14 2012 02:02 Crossfire99 wrote:
--snipped

Be careful roflwaffle, votes are only easily removable if you are around to remove them. You never know what might happen. Also, votes early on in the day cycle that don't really mean much followed by complete disappearance during a controversial lynch can be scum tactic to avoid making mistakes in a heated debate that occurs last minute.


What an odd thing to say. Your message boils down to: don't vote because you might not be around later, and when that happens you are going to look scummy. Discouraging voting for such an arbitrary reason looks kind of scummy. Also, this hall-monitor stuff is a comfortable way for scum to post and have it look like they are pro-town.


I never said don't vote. I just said be careful about throwing your votes around willy-nilly under the premise that you are going to remove them later. I never even said don't do that. I just don't want someone sticking someone else with a vote for flimsy reasons that ends up sealing a lynch because they couldn't get back in time to change it. That was the entire point of those two sentences.

As for the mention of the scum tactic, I'm just saying that sometimes scum can not take part in big discussions later in the day by voting early and then disappearing. I'm just trying to help roflwaffle, by trying to get him to think about taking his vote seriously and having good reasons for whatever he does. If no one holds anyone accountable mafia can just breeze on by.



3) notice his defensive, and meek tone; in addition to his low post count. he's obviously afraid to attract attention to himself
4) he was lurking for a LONGGG time before he finally decided to post . What u thought we all forgot about that?
Not much there. His bit on crossfire is way more robust than his bit on golden or MJ, but still doesn't feel like a whole lot of scumhunting for a day. Again though, I want to wait on him.




That leaves me with cross.
##Vote: Crossfire99

What I'd ask of everyone is to show me where Crossfire has done any scumhunting. He posted a little, dropped off the face of the earth, came back, responded to everyone's comments towards him, but never even gave us a single read throughout the day. Nobody looked scummy, because he really just didn't comment on ANYONE. I'm confused as to how that can be towny behavior, and he dropped in, spent time responding to all these people, but spent 0 characters doing any kind of hunting himself.

Lurking is bad, but you can lurk and contribute when you pop up. HeavOnEarth didn't contribute when he came back. Crossfire didn't contribute when he came back, except addressing our concerns about him. Between the timing of the votes on HeavOn and the lack of any push on him, I'd rather go with Crossfire today.
. Like I mentioned earlier, I think austin's reasoning when related to me gets clouded a little by our last game. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt for now and hopefully he'll come around, but if he continues this tunneling unnecessarily then I'll have to reconsider.

Trackdoor then comes in and votes last with this + Show Spoiler +
On June 15 2012 08:52 trackd00r wrote:
I was checking Heaven's filter.

I must admint that he looks suspicious at this stage of the game. I was expecting from him a more detailed analysis of his play, since he stated that he has more experience in playing mafia.

I dislike the fact that he took the most easy target to pressure (golden), instead of trying to outline the other players, He also adds some points against CF, but isn't really big of a deal.

Although I share some suspicions with him, I see that he is not contributing at the same level as the rest of us are. I don't really think that it will be that much of a loss if he flips town. If that is the case, he have a whole post history behind us too see who bandwagoned and who tried to hunt down mafia

As I don't want a NL, I'll change my vote to heaven.

##Unvote: O.Golden_ne
##Vote: HeavOnEarth
. He is now just jumping on the obvious bandwagon. I'll give a null read on this until I can go through his filter.

I think that leaves everyone except for me and Heavon. I won't even bother quoting Heavon. He just went with a weak vote on Golden and then got lynched. And I missed the lynch for the reasons stated above.

Ok. That's all the time I have for now (I should have gone to bed an hour and a half ago, but whatever). I don't know if I'll be back in time before the night ends to post some more thoughts, so consider this my contribution for now. If I survive the lynch, I'll look into roflwaffle's filter and get a better read on him. I encourage you all to do the same and let me know what you think whether you agree or disagree.
Crossfire99
Profile Joined March 2011
United States1529 Posts
June 17 2012 00:39 GMT
#357
Ok I will just throw a few random thoughts about some stuff I noticed while catching up, then I'll go scumhunting.

Nice job everyone who looked into roflwaffle's filter and provided the evidence we needed to essentially "lynch" him. Good job alan actually shooting him. Nice to know one person who is confirmed town.

I noticed someone was wondering about if the last scum is a roleblocker. It doesn't matter if he is a roleblocker. As long as the rules are the same as when I was mafia last game, a mafia roleblocker can't roleblock and kill in the same night. I'll double check, though.

Can a mafia roleblocker both roleblock and kill in the same night? Is the rule different if he is the last scum?

As for this whole solstice issue (I'll only be using his plan in my case on him). He was the first person to bring attention to Heavon and the first person to vote for him. It wasn't weak pressure by the way. See my last post where I analyzed the lynch. Also, he was willing to include himself as the first lynch in his whole lynch list plan, so that pretty much confirms him in my eyes (as long as he wasn't lying, but I doubt it). So basically, I see him as a townie with a very strong scum read in suki and just desperately wants to get her lynched no matter what.
Crossfire99
Profile Joined March 2011
United States1529 Posts
June 17 2012 02:54 GMT
#367
While rereading the thread I noticed that the first three suspicions/cases presented early day 1 were heavon on golden, rofl on alan, and suki on trapdoor. (We know heavon and rofl are scum.) This was all based on very early game stuff. suki backs off of trapdoor after people defend him and rofl backs off of alan after I caution him against careless voting. Then suki comes in with this attack and vote on alan. Reading it knowing that alan is town and was/is a 1 shot vigilante helps a lot. I quote her post below and put my thoughts in both italics and underline.


On June 14 2012 13:21 suki wrote:
@Miltonkram

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Suki has been painting track's two posts as directly contradictory even though they aren't. This could be an overzealous town play but I don't think it is. What possible motivation could there be for a strong attack on someone with a controversial opinion? Firstly, there's the chance that the town might bandwagon on it. This would be the best possible scenario for suki if she is scum. She leads a bandwagon D1 and she gets a mislynch. Secondly, she gains town cred for appearing aggressive even if she doesn't get the lynch. It seems like a win/win scenario for scum unless of course someone makes the analysis I'm making now.

In summary, the case on trackd00r is pure crap. Making a controversial statement is not a scumtell. I think suki is trying to cover her scumminess by appearing aggressive without making a good case.


Apologies for not addressing you directly. Quite simply you (and several other people after you) answered your question. The motivation is to get the ball rolling some way, any way. I feel I failed a bit in that regard as my attack was so full of holes that there hardly was any discussion developed from it, but it was made with good intentions.


Regarding Mouldyjeb, I agree that he is confusing, however his filter is also quite short. His words definitely are not pro-town, but in my opinion they aren't inherently scummy either, it could just as easily be poor town play.



Now I've gone through a few people's filters, and only one person really sticks out at me: alan133

roflwaffle initiated pressure on him, and then loosened up after Crossfire and I argued in alan's defense. I did not find the case convincing before, but now alan's posted his defense, and now the case is a lot more stronger to me.

As a quick rehash of rofl's initial case, he argued that alan made posts with little controversy, that he wasn't interested or willing to apply pressure on anyone, that he does some bandwagoning.

All true, but possible for both town and scum play. However, with his defense posts, I feel that things are starting to add up. Looking even closer at the filter I feel I've caught some things that I missed before.


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FMPOV, suki's case was most probably based on a misunderstanding, but (s)he could very well did it intentionally hoping for a bandwagon leading to a mislynch. Note that I am merely listing the possibilities, I do not FoS anyone yet, which can also mean that I do not trust anyone yet.




His initial statement is very verbose and is pro-actively defensive. He's countering arguments to his words before they even come up. He's even countering counter arguments to his words.

"...hoping for a bandwagon leading to a mislynch. [counter] Note I am merely listing the possibilities, I do not FoS anyone yet, [counter-counter] which can also mean I do not trust anyone yet".

He also likes to use FMPOV and IMO a lot, further stressing how his words are subjective.

It's very telling when someone is that self-conscious and defensive, because only mafia really have that motivation.

I don't see this quote by him as being overly defensive in any way. He was already put under bad pressure by rofl, so he wants to make sure people understand him. He's saying suki attacked trapdoor based on a misunderstanding, but could be mafia and done it intentionally. He also states he doesn't have any really good reads yet, so he is suspicious of everyone. This is early on day 1 and he thinks it is smart to play it safe and be cool, especially in his case because he doesn't want to draw undue attention to himself because he is a vigilante. Also, I think use of FMPOV and IMO are completely fine for anyone who is town because as town you only know you are town. Anyone else can be mafia. I actually think suki attacking this betrays her mafia alignment because only mafia have objective knowledge of who is town and who isn't. Every case a townie puts forth is subjective argumentation based on people's own words.


When called out by waffle for not having suspicions, he gets extremely agitated.

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FMPOV, anyone can be scum, and having no FoS does not mean I do not suspect anyone. I merely state that I have no strong scum read as of currently, and in my context, strong means pretty much confirmed.

IMO those who are decisive in throwing votes based on weak or insubstantial claims were somewhat suspicious. I think it is normal for townies to hold doubts and and being decisive as they were less informed. If anything, I just tried to keep an open mind.


He spends a lot of words explaining his reasoning behind saying he doesn't have an FoS. He starts to really use red to emphasize his words, which he had used previously to point out inconsistencies and scummy lines, but not to add emphasis to his words.

Notice that he is spending a lot of effort defending himself and justifying his past words. I feel a townie would be less threatened by such accusations, and instead start trying to apply pressure and otherwise prove their towniness.

So defending yourself is scummy? NOPE! In no way is defending yourself scummy. If you never defended yourself when you are town and this causes you to be lynched, you actually HURT the town. Her advice is actually good mafia advice. Ignore the case against you and hope it dies while pressuring others.
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Following what he feels is an adequate self-defense, he goes on the offensive.

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Also, is it me or you were trying to divert the attention AWAY from suki? I don't see how keeping the attention on suki is a bad thing, as you suggested.
His current play is anti-town at best, as he hasn't brought any of his thoughts to the table, and has only left ambiguous and bandwagoning answers to keep attention on those with controversial opinions.

Well if you're complaining about not bringing up any of my thoughts, there you have it. I were trying to avoid throwing out suspicions with little to no proof, but if by not doing so is anti-town

As a matter of fact, roflwaffles55 asked for my opinion replying to my opening post, and criticise it being a bandwagon, while forgetting he did the same.


This is extremely extremely scummy to me. What he's saying here is essentially this: "If not giving throwing out suspicions is anti-town, then I will prove my towniness by throwing out suspicions.", followed by attacking the person who attacked him.

This isn't scummy. He is being attacked for being neutral and playing it safe, so to try to satisfy his critics he decides to throw out some suspicions. Eventually he will have to throw out his own suspicions, so he might as well do it when some people are attacking him for not having any to show that he is trying to play as a team.

He finishes the post by saying

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My policy is to stay as neutral as possible, accessing all the possibilities while passively waiting/reading what other people has posted. I do believe this is not a bad-town play, as I am trying to avoid town fighting town scenario while scums lurks and look at the drama while eating pop-corns.


There is a mental disconnect here.

1. He feels throwing out suspicions is bad for town
2. He tries to prove his towniness by throwing out a suspicion at his attacker
3. He reinforces his belief that staying neutral is not bad town play

If he really was town and he really believed that his way of playing was optimal, why would he have the need to go completely against his beliefs to prove his towniness?

His stance is classic blue behavior. Stay in the background, read other people's cases and weigh their validity to inform his own decision on what night action to take. It is also not bad vanilla townie play (in some instances) in the sense that too many cases and suspects just confuse everyone. We only need to find one scum each day. Also, he went against his beliefs because people were pressuring him to give his suspicion, so to defend himself he gave his suspicions.

In his next post, the same trend continues.

He spends time justifying his red text:

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The red text was meant to emphasize on how easily I could've built a case against you if I were to use the same speculations and baseless assumptions.


but the interesting thing is.. if it was so easy for him to build a case against waffles, why didn't he? Of course, because he didn't have any. He was simply defending via attacking.

He was just making a point that you can make a bad case based on anything

And then there's the whole weird analysis that he does where he analyses my case and waffle's case, comes to the conclusion that:

1. waffles could be either scum or town (???)
2. somehow finds me slightly scummy even though he previously thought that my case was based on a misunderstanding (and went to extra lengths to state that he did not FOS anyone yet),
3. Some sort of mafia conspiracy theory out of left field what??
4. Which he backs off saying 'I think I might have read too much into it."

So, he finally makes analyses on people, but only the two most active and controversial ones, and doesn't come to any solid conclusions. He makes a really weird statement regarding mafia alterior motives that doesn't make any sense coming from a town's perspective, but comes naturally to a mafia who is trying to spin scum motivations on townies.

Being active and controversial generally means that there will be evidence to make a case against you. It is still early in the day and he never really wanted to be in the spotlight to begin with so he is unsure about his reads. Heck I was unsure about my reads that early on. Yeah he mentions some possible mafia motives and it turns out he was right about half of his conspiracy theory already and might have been right all along 0.o

Oh yeah he backs off of it because he readily acknowledges it is a conspiracy theory. If he was 100% sure that both you and rofl were mafia based on what was posted already, I would have thought he was mafia because we had no solid information at the time.


Summary

1. He's pro-actively defensive
2. Justifies his own actions instead of trying to make pro-town actions
3. Defensive Aggression
4. Inconsistency regarding a neutral/suspicion-throwing playstyle
5. Attacks the two most controversial posters with a questionable theory for townies to think of that he just kind of throws out there.
6. Still no solid reads, analysis or suspicions despite (kind of??) conceding that not throwing out suspicions is anti-town.

Suki is mafia


##vote alan133

##Vote: suki

Note: I noticed that some people were suspcious of suki and I decided to keep that in the back of my mind while rereading the thread, which is when I came across the above post. I didn't read the most recent cases on suki (and I had forgotten the original cases on her by now) because I wanted to come at the situation with an open mind. This post by her and her bad case on trapdoor is enough for me to vote for her now. I'll go read everyone else's cases on suki to see what else they found scummy.
Crossfire99
Profile Joined March 2011
United States1529 Posts
June 17 2012 03:15 GMT
#369
Oh yeah I keep on forgetting to post this. Thanks for all the well wishes guys. I wasn't injured at all because I wasn't in my car at the time. It was parked and some fool hit it and drove away. Now I have to get it repaired and pay for it out of my own pocket. Thankfully, I don't think my deductible is that much, but I have to check to be sure.
Crossfire99
Profile Joined March 2011
United States1529 Posts
June 17 2012 05:13 GMT
#382
@suki
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On June 17 2012 12:27 suki wrote:
@crossfire

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So defending yourself is scummy? NOPE! In no way is defending yourself scummy. If you never defended yourself when you are town and this causes you to be lynched, you actually HURT the town. Her advice is actually good mafia advice. Ignore the case against you and hope it dies while pressuring others.

never said that. thats just twisting my words.

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This isn't scummy. He is being attacked for being neutral and playing it safe, so to try to satisfy his critics he decides to throw out some suspicions. Eventually he will have to throw out his own suspicions, so he might as well do it when some people are attacking him for not having any to show that he is trying to play as a team.

his suspicions target inconsistencies in his opponent's behaviour. ie 'i did this to you and you called it scummy, but look, you also did it to me, so how are your actions not scummy?'
if you're going to throw out your suspicions, you should be doing it in a way that hilites scum/suspicious behaviour. pointing out these kind of inconsistencies isn't going to help the scum hunt and it only serves as a method of self defence.

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His stance is classic blue behavior. Stay in the background, read other people's cases and weigh their validity to inform his own decision on what night action to take. It is also not bad vanilla townie play (in some instances) in the sense that too many cases and suspects just confuse everyone. We only need to find one scum each day. Also, he went against his beliefs because people were pressuring him to give his suspicion, so to defend himself he gave his suspicions.

i have no idea he's blue. you're judging me with information that i didn't have. it's also scummy to stay in the background, i was pressuring him to actually contribute to town.

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Being active and controversial generally means that there will be evidence to make a case against you. It is still early in the day and he never really wanted to be in the spotlight to begin with so he is unsure about his reads.

not wanting to be in the spotlight is also mafia trait.

I don't think your case against me is strong at all crossfire. It comes down a lot to knowing now that alan was blue, information that nobody had at that point in the game, and my pressure to force him to contribute more towards the town, as opposed to staying out of the spotlight. At this point, we know that he had good motivation for doing so because he was blue, but that's information we didn't have back then.


Ugh, you are right. Rereading my case on you I realized I base too much on knowing that alan is town now, but we didn't know that then, so I can't use a lot of that to judge you. I still don't like you attacking him for being too defensive, though. The way you worded you statement makes it seem that he shouldn't have defended himself, but if that's not what you meant...I guess I'll take that.

I did read your post on trackdoor and looked through his filter and you make some good points. Right now I need to take a step back and think, though. I'm not entirely sure what's happening. I need to get my bearings. I'm going to unvote you for now and sleep on it.

##Unvote

Unforgiven, what are your thought on all that has been happening? Mouldy didn't help out so much (hence being replaced), so I want some of your thoughts.
Crossfire99
Profile Joined March 2011
United States1529 Posts
June 17 2012 20:14 GMT
#396
On June 17 2012 16:40 Unforgiven_ve wrote:
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On June 17 2012 14:13 Crossfire99 wrote:
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Unforgiven, what are your thought on all that has been happening? Mouldy didn't help out so much (hence being replaced), so I want some of your thoughts.


Sorry, didnt see this, to be honest, i have no idea of was happening right now, my only help to town right now will be my vote. I will try really hard to long in tomorrow and vote for your best candidate. I cant read 10 pages now :S, it sucks to be a replacement


I understand. I'll give you some slack today. If this game last longer I'll expect you to contribute. I just realized that we've both been in the same game on both Mother's Day and Father's Day. What a coincidence.

As for me, I'm not entirely sold that suki is confirmed town, but I'll give her the benefit of the doubt on her case and see how trackdoor flips because he does look scummy.

##Vote trackd00r
Crossfire99
Profile Joined March 2011
United States1529 Posts
June 18 2012 06:20 GMT
#437
It sucks we didn't get a perfect game, but at least we'll be able to sharpen our wits because I think this scum is a lot better than rofl and heavon. I was really unsure of what happened yesterday and didn't really get strong reads on people based on what was posted so I decided to reset and begin fresh from this post (+ Show Spoiler +
On June 15 2012 14:24 Crossfire99 wrote:
Ok now let's analyze this lynch.

Solstice drew the first blood with these + Show Spoiler +
On June 14 2012 10:07 s0Lstice wrote:
Alright, so I went filter spelunking and explored every nook and cranny. My general impression at this moment is one of disappointment. I know it's rare to get good reads on day 1, but some people's filters are incredibly barren. If I had to lynch right now, here would be my suspects.

HeavOnEarth
He's pretty lurky. His hard stance is on Golden, where he builds a case on the poor guy's intro post. Look at the case:

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On June 13 2012 23:52 HeavOnEarth wrote:
morning everyone
First off, id like to say im suspicious of everyone who tries to stay under the radar. I feel newer mafia players have a tendency to try and stay quiet.
That said O.Golden_ne looks the most suspicious to me-

On June 13 2012 09:43 O.Golden_ne wrote:
On June 13 2012 09:25 austinmcc wrote:
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I'm not looking to push lurkers early and stay on them for an entire day cycle, killing discussion, but they need to be considered and I'd rather be looking at them on earlier days than when we're close to/at LYLO/MYLO.


agreed.

NL is bad. Killing lurking is necessary. Lynching scum is great.

Lets get the ball rolling and squeeze out the lurkers early so we can narrow things down later on. Looking forward to scumhunting, i'm happy with the deadline on this as its 10am for me in Aust, which means i'll be able to meet the deadlines for lynching in the mornings a little easier.

I'll try my hardest this game to meet these deadlines and to contribute useful information rather than filler.

Essentially i'm all for an agressive early game. I want to be able to establish some basic reads by the end of Day one, and if theres no-one who's appropriately scummy then we lynch a lurker.

Golden


Is there anything even remotely helpful in this post? Everyone knows NL is bad. he seems to be posting for the sake of it
also, i checked his last game, (he was townie)
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=337671&user=92568
u can tell his tone is completely different, and he is generally more helpful.


Think of it like this. Scum will be making cases against people on day 1...they have to. I looked at all the cases people have made, and this one stank especially bad. It's built entirely around a hello post. It has a very artificial feel to it.

Also, he just posted this:

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On June 14 2012 08:47 HeavOnEarth wrote:
On June 14 2012 08:38 s0Lstice wrote:
Just checking in guys. I'm going to make a post on my top scumreads in a few hours, as well as some errata. Lynch time is fast approaching and we really need to buckle down.

? lynch isn't for another 24 hours?


Townies always feel the pressure of the ticking clock. Half of our time being gone doesn't seem to trouble him. He hasn't really bothered to comment on what's been going on in the thread outside of his own reads.

He's been on Mouldy Jeb's case as well. Here's some more recent(!) material:

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On June 14 2012 09:32 HeavOnEarth wrote:
was sort of waiting for MJ to post something after he was like hurr durr ima post soon. i took a look at his previous game though and his posts seem consistent from when he was townie. hes really not helping at all, and definitely still looks scum, but it feels like poor town play rather than mafia.


Confused? Me too. I think this dude has a chance at flipping scum.

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On June 15 2012 00:50 s0Lstice wrote:
Some housekeeping stuff first..

I am removing alan133 from my scum list. The main thing that had me suspicious was his strong-arm defense, but everything following that has been fine. I like that he is holding himself accountable for his style, and I want to see what he can do when not under pressure.

austin and suki have commented on crossfire99, and I have to say I agree. I was planning on wrighting a post similar to what suki has done. The cogent point is that he has long bouts of inactivity when he is both scum and town. He should get the same level of suspicion that every lurker gets, but nothing special beyond that I feel. His filter right now is pretty garbagey, and hard to get a read on. I wouldn't be upset if we lynched him, but I think we can do better.

Here is better: HeavOnEarth. Nothing has happened to change my initial opinion on him for the better. In fact, him buddying up to sciberbia in his latest post makes him look worse. Go read my case if you missed it. I'm not the only one to see him as suspicious, so I think there is plenty of traction here.

##vote HeavOnEarth
. His case on Heavon was solid and good. It doesn't seem like a mafia bus attempt to me (it's too well thought out and puts legit pressure on Heavon), so I see him as a townie.

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On June 15 2012 04:00 alan133 wrote:
I see the current pressure are easing off from me. I also realize I has pretty much ignored everyone else except for rolf and suki.

@HeavOnEarth
His first few points seem disconnected. None of them relates to each other: From FoSing Golden for his opening post, + Show Spoiler +
And I thought rofl@me and suki@trap was bad
later jumping to accusing Mouldy Jeb (he was an easy target), and then commenting on s0ltice's preception on lynch time + Show Spoiler +
On June 14 2012 08:47 HeavOnEarth wrote:
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On June 14 2012 08:38 s0Lstice wrote:
Just checking in guys. I'm going to make a post on my top scumreads in a few hours, as well as some errata. Lynch time is fast approaching and we really need to buckle down.

? lynch isn't for another 24 hours?

.

He also state that he is waiting for responses. Upon being debunked on Gold's read, he basically dismiss it similar the way suki has dismissed her case on trap, claiming they are trying to start conversation. In suki's case, this is still believable. Before her case there was no controversy, and very little to talk about. However, when Heave posted on Gold, there were already controversies + Show Spoiler +
rolf@me suki@trap
and he ignore them altogether. I interpret his motive is to lynch a lurker over an already presented scummy player, and this can hardly be town.

Very Suspicious

Right now, I find Heav and MJ were the best lynch candidates, and HeavOnEarth appears to be more scummy

##unvote: Suki
##vote: HeavOnEarth

I am off to bed, it is 3 am right here. I will get up in 4 hours so we can get a successful lynch.

Another refresh reveals more post from crossfire. My opinion on him has not swayed.
. He did some good analysis on Heavon and defend himself against suki well, so I feel he is townie right now.

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On June 15 2012 04:58 suki wrote:
HeavOnEarth:


Okay, something really really sticks out to me in Heavon's first post, and it's not about golden.

It's this particular line:

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also id like to point out crossfire is completely inactive, whereas in past games he was a pretty talkative little townie.
thoughts?


Above, I posted my opinions on Crossfire, where I had gone through pretty much his entire filter in his two previous games, and the big thing I noted was that Crossfire LURKED very hard in his first game as blue, and somewhat lurked in the second game as red.

HeavOn clearly is talking about Crossfire's game as blue, 'He was a pretty talkative little townie'. This is clearly wrong.

He continues his case against Crossfire later after sciberbia brings it up. This has already been labelled as suspicious. It's a big point against him that he waited until someone else pointed fingers at Crossfire, when he had so early established a read on Crossfire - a fairly in depth read as he had even looked at Crossfire's filters from previous games.

The thing is, the case HeavOn makes against crossfire disregards the previous game filters. Crossfire, as mafia, was assertive actively pushed cases against other players. He also lurked quite a bit.


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As for golden i admit my analysis was pretty damn bad LOL , but he didn't really have any other posts for me to provoke him with, and i still feel its a strong play to accuse lurkers of being scummy, just to get them to talk. The way he went about replying though felt really odd to me. For example, i don't really care if you're taking a few mins to write up a post. Why tell me about it(unless you're about to be majority lynched or something). Just feels off.


HeavOn votes for Golden despite saying that his case against Golden is weak. He doesn't back off however, stating that the response was scummy and that the scummy thing about it was how golden was commenting on the time it would take to make his posts? Seems like a very strained argument to make.

I see clear scum motivation in voting for golden. In my previous game as mafia, I harped on Miltonkram for his early vote against sciberbia. Even when my argument was convincingly rebutted, I continued to press my case against him finding any sort of scummy intent I could make up. Why? Because I didn't want to be wishy-washy.

HeavOn's case against golden is that golden 'just feels off'. This makes Golden a 'solid lynch' to him.


I'm out of time, but that's my insight into HeavOn. I feel that there can definitely be scum motivation behind his posts. I haven't had time to closely look at other people but for now HeavOn is clearly a scummier target than alan.

##unvote alan113
##vote HeavOnEarth
. Suki follows up with some more good analysis on Heavon and I see her also as town.

Those three I mentioned above all brought solid analysis and new thoughts on Heavon, so I feel confident in seeing them as town for right now.

Then Milton (+ Show Spoiler +
On June 15 2012 04:59 Miltonkram wrote:
Oops, slept in a bit later than I'd planned. s0Lstice, I'm inclined to agree with you. HeavOnEarth looks like the best lynch candidate.

Everybody, I'd suggest you take a look at him. His filter is not particularly long, but I think there is enough scummy behavior there to warrant a vote.

##Vote: HeavOnEarth
), roflwaffle (+ Show Spoiler +
On June 15 2012 05:09 roflwaffles55 wrote:
I noticed already that his play was scummy, however I felt like it was the easy way out, I was hoping to nail a more influential scum D1, but I guess that's just new player optimism... If he flips scum, I'm not sure what kind of information we're going to gain from it as his posts don't seem to link him to anyone.. and if he flips town then all we really know is that he was a poor townie.

I'll go with the flow because he's fairly blatant with his scumminess (real word?) but I'd like to keep an eye on Crossfire, as well as keeping Mouldy Jeb in mind for a D2 lynch.

##unvote Crossfire99
##vote HeavOnEarth

I'm not sure if I'll be on tonight, I'll do my absolute best to be on in case there's a swing of opinion.
), and Golden (+ Show Spoiler +
On June 15 2012 06:27 O.Golden_ne wrote:

in regards to HeavonEarth.
In relation to my:
a) knowing i'm town.
b) Him trying to bus me one the grounds of "seems like a solid case".
c) lacklustre contribution and no rebuttle to any arguments.
i feel like he see's a bandwagon forming and jumps on straight away.


#VOTE: HeavonEarth

i still maintain a #FOS on MouldyJeb
i still owe the group a comment on Crossfire99 but i honestly dont have time for it before work.
) all jump on the bandwagon without much new to add (not necessarily scummy in and of itself, there is only so much one can add based on one day's filter). I did notice a really weird thing about roflwaffle's post, though. He's upset that we are going to get too easy of a lynch and said that he knows Heavon is suspicious but thinks it's more worthwhile to attack someone with more influence like me (huh?, I've been under suspicion all day, if anything that makes people look at me more closely, there's no way I'm going to be influential). Also, his suspicion of Heavon up to that point consists of this + Show Spoiler +
On June 15 2012 02:44 roflwaffles55 wrote:
I'm going to post as though all of these people are scum, and the impact they have a chance to make if they are left alive. I think it will give a different way of thinking about it.

HeavOnEarth

His play is quite suspicious and his accusations and suspicions lackluster at best. He could just as easily be an awful townie as scum.

Overall he's been fairly ineffectual, but if he's hiding behind a mask of confusion and bad reads, he could be an annoyance as scum later on.

I believe that the most lynchable potential scum right now would be Crossfire99. I understand that there are already votes on HeavOnEarth, but if he really is that incompetent at bringing cases to the table, as a scum, why would he try to post them? He is suspicious to me, but not as suspicious as Crossfire. Unless he responds to the accusations in a convincing and collected manner soon, I strongly believe that he should be lynched.

##vote Crossfire99
. All of this suspicion came after solstice's case against Heavon and he adds nothing new to it except postulating that he could be an awful townie (we now know that's not true). This makes me suspicious of roflwaffle.

This is followed by sciberbia's vote + Show Spoiler +
On June 15 2012 07:56 sciberbia wrote:
My thoughts on HeavOnEarth:

I was originally somewhat suspicious of him for throwing suspicion onto a handful of easy targets, and then becoming wishy/washy about it. He has since made me more suspicious with his response and attitude towards golden.

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On June 14 2012 20:15 HeavOnEarth wrote:
As for golden i admit my analysis was pretty damn bad LOL , but he didn't really have any other posts for me to provoke him with, and i still feel its a strong play to accuse lurkers of being scummy, just to get them to talk. The way he went about replying though felt really odd to me. For example, i don't really care if you're taking a few mins to write up a post. Why tell me about it(unless you're about to be majority lynched or something). Just feels off.


First of all, he admits that his case was "pretty damn bad" and LOL's about it. I see this as slightly scummy. He is being ingratiating and agreeable, rather than firm, objective, and analytic. This is more typical of mafia than of townies.

Next HeavOnEarth says that there were no other posts to provoke Golden with. The question I'm left asking myself is: why did HeavOnEarth feel that he had to attack Golden at all? He says it was strong play of him to "accuse lurkers of being scummy", but at the time of HeavOnEarth's accusation, golden didn't look lurky. Golden made 1 post in the first 4 hours of the game, and then HeavOnEarth accused him. 1 decent-sized post in the first 4 hours isn't lurky. Why was HeavOnEarth looking for a reason to "provoke him"?

Finally, heavOnEarth refuses to back down from his suspicions of golden, and even ends up voting golden, but doesn't give any good reasons. He just says that golden's posting seems odd. Odd =/= scummy. It looks like he just arbitrarily picked a target to attack at the beginning and now won't back down.

Overall, I think he has a good chance of being mafia and I'm happy with lynching him.

##Vote HeavOnEarth
. He gives some good reasoning for his vote, but I feel it is too late in the bandwagon to say this makes him townie. It could be a mafia finally realizing that his partner is done for and needs to jump on to be less suspicious. I'll leave this as a null read for now.

Then austin comes in and votes for me with this + Show Spoiler +
On June 15 2012 08:28 austinmcc wrote:
I think Heavon looks scummy. But his voting took off after he posted that he was going to be gone for auto repairs. And there's been very little pushback. I'm particularly worried by: (1) us going for the guy who basically said "Won't be around to defend myself," and (2) the lack of any pushback against him, when we had multiple targets recently. There could be some bussing going on, but we had a couple other juicy targets, and I wouldn't expect a bus in that situation. At the very least, my stance right now is that he doesn't look good, but the vast majority of the votes and comments on him seem to have occurred after he said he was leaving. I don't want to lynch him today based on that alone.

See your comment towards him. Yes, his reads would help town. Yes, he ought to defend himself. But he may actually have been gone these last few hours, and I want to see his response before I lynch him. If it looks bad, there's D2. I think I'm saying the same thing over and over, so I'll knock it off.

Apart from those basic statements, I'll note this. He DOES fit into a category of people trying to look like they're scumhunting but not. The 1 post suspicion of Golden, his comment on MJ -
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On June 14 2012 02:39 HeavOnEarth wrote:
check out Mouldy Jeb's posts, and accusations
On June 14 2012 00:20 Mouldy Jeb wrote:
nope roffle that was a gut feeling about you that why I stated I have no evidence


Why would someone try to direct suspicions with NO reasoning?
his chiming in on crossfire - + Show Spoiler +
On June 14 2012 20:15 HeavOnEarth wrote:
@Sciberbia
in addition to what u said on crossfire, notice that he
1) only replies when called out. Every message he is replying to someone, not making his own points aside from his opening.
2) Every one of his posts feels like complete filler to me. he is trying to LOOK helpful, without actively contributing anything
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On June 14 2012 02:06 Crossfire99 wrote:
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On June 14 2012 02:00 roflwaffles55 wrote:
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On June 14 2012 01:56 Crossfire99 wrote:
Just woke up. I'll start with that only as a last resort will I be for lynching a lurker Day 1. If we can get some good scum hunting done Day 1 we will have a more productive lynch than just a random lurker. Now onto what has been happening.

On the whole suki and trapdoor issue:
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On June 13 2012 12:44 suki wrote:
Is it just me or is trackd00r coming off as scummy already?

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If I understood correctly, it doesn't mean that I would stop any lynch that I didn't mention on my analysis. Just because I have a candidate for lynch, it doesn't imply that I discard any other possibility.

It's something related to common sense. If any other cases are convincing enough, I'll throw my vote there in the case I can't get a majority. In the other hand, if we end up like RNG lynching (which is a bad idea), any other poster that could be doing silly mistakes, or even a player practically saying ''hey guys, I'm mafia, lynch me'' that's when it goes against my mindset. Any possibility is valuable, but if there is something absurdly wrong, I'll call it, even if that means a no lynch.


This post screams to me that he's trying to be super cautious with his words, so that he'll have a safety net if/when he ever changes a vote or bandwagons on someone else. He throws out some 'obvious' examples of reasons of what wouldn't agree with him, and even mentions that he would follow through on a read, even if it that means a no lynch.

BUT WAIT! Just ONE post previous to that he says this:

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I won't accept a NO LYNCH unless I believe we may have a serious mislynch coming.


...

Dude. You try to take a firm stance against something, and then you do the most scummy wishy-washy-ness thing ever the very next post. You're clearly informed about mafia as you brought up the idea of a day 1 RNG lynch, and being against a no lynch is not a difficult or complicated policy to hold. I feel that such a simple logical slip only happens if you're trying to play it safe and keep your options open.

##vote trackd00r


I think suki was just being aggressive. I admit that I found trapdoor's response post to be weird, but then I realized that English is probably not his native language, so I reread it a few times. I don't see a contradiction in there, he is just explaining that he would try to stop a lynch that he really believed was on a townie. I'll give suki the benefit of the doubt on this case and say she is an over eager townie for now.

On roflwaffle and alan:
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On June 13 2012 22:28 roflwaffles55 wrote:
I woke up this morning to the arguments made towards trackd00r, and while the arguments made against him weren't particularly convincing, his defense was a little bit lackluster as well.

However, I would like to bring your attention to someone else that is acting quite scummy as it stands.


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On June 13 2012 13:05 alan133 wrote:
On June 13 2012 11:12 roflwaffles55 wrote:
On June 13 2012 11:03 alan133 wrote:
Good morning everyone. Looks like the first thing I am going to do in the office is to play mafia on TL. I don't recognize anyone here since this is my first game, well except for s0Lsitce since he is in the game I read. That's my brief introduction, and habitually in the beginning of any game, GLHF.

I am new and am unsure how to proceed with the game, but my current strategy is to wait for more post to come. Currently I have no FoS. That also mean I do not trust anyone yet.


What are your thoughts on what's been posted as of yet?


On the inactive/lurkers lynch
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I believe inactive players/lurkers are generally anti-town/bad town play in any mafia game, so lynching them isn't a bad idea (Since I believe d1 lynch is good, refer below), if there aren't better candidates of course.


On the day 1 lynch/no lynch
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I agree on lynching day 1 based on my experience with other mafia games (outside TL) with similar setup. By reading other games on TL I also notice the current meta game is to lynch when there are more players, as it gives townies clues.


I am off to lunch, will be commenting on my thoughts later as I see some interesting posts/votes already.


His first post puts him on the bandwagon with his opinion on the inactives and lurkers, and is generally a contentless post with little to no controversy. Otherwise, nothing to bring the spotlight to him at all.

While this is not by any means evidence of scummy play, there comes to attention the next post he makes.

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On June 13 2012 15:40 alan133 wrote:
My thoughts on suki's case:
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Any possibility is valuable, but if there is something absurdly wrong, I'll call it, even if that means a no lynch.

I won't accept a NO LYNCH unless I believe we may have a serious mislynch coming.

I started writing before I refresh and saw s0lstice's post. As he already pointed it out, there are no contradictions between the two statements. trackd00r merely states that NL is bad unless it is a "serious" mislynch in both highlighted sentence. If I am missing something, please correct me.

Also, Miltonkram:
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On June 13 2012 10:35 Miltonkram wrote:
Hey all, glad to see we've got a bit of activity already.

In NMM XV we actually had a decent discussion about no-lynches (involving me making a fool of myself) and how they can actually be beneficial in certain setups. That being said, we don't know for certain if we'll have any modkills so we should leave no-lynches off the table until we hit the unlikely scenario that a no-lynch is beneficial for the town.

Town, the best way to contribute is just to get posting. Let everyone know what your thoughts are. Did someone post something suspicious? Let us know about it. Do you think the town is making a bad move? Let us know about it. If a townie lurks he/she is letting down his/her entire team. So don't do it, K? I'm sooooooooper serious. Like sooooper, soooooooooooper serious.

Hey sciberbia, remember this
##Vote: sciberbia
...heh heh heh


Is it me or you are not actually + Show Spoiler +
soooooooooooooooooper serious
? I personally think (well played) townies are not the ones that bluffs around, let alone voting someone without any reason at all? Generally, fooling around, to me, is anti-town/ bad town play.


My current opinion
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FMPOV, suki's case was most probably based on a misunderstanding, but (s)he could very well did it intentionally hoping for a bandwagon leading to a mislynch. Note that I am merely listing the possibilities, I do not FoS anyone yet, which can also mean that I do not trust anyone yet.


This is the post that really got me wondering. How by now can you have no suspicions? There has been quite a few suspicious decisions by several people, giving you more then enough time to form a case against someone, or at least apply some pressure.

His statement about trackd00r comes after s0lstice, leaving his opinion tied to a fairly influential player and just reiterating what s0lstice said with no additional evidence or opinionated comments. Again, seeming like he's contributing without actually bringing anything to the table.

He throws around some suspicion towards Miltonkram, however not enough to constitute a case or apply any pressure, just enough to make people go filter milton and consider what he might have done, which yet again, leaves him out of the spotlight.

The last statement he makes in this post is the most suspicious and the largest tell of his indecision and lack of real input. He restates his opinion that suki's case is a misunderstanding, again, nothing of value. He then continues to explain that he has no FoS and that he doesn't trust anyone, leaving his options open, and having no real contrary opinions.

His current play is anti-town at best, as he hasn't brought any of his thoughts to the table, and has only left ambiguous and bandwagoning answers to keep attention on those with controversial opinions.


I think roflwaffle is jumping a little too hard on alan here. It is like 1/3 of the way through Day 1. We are not going to have a lot to work with and consequently we aren't going to really know what to think of people until we get more information. Therefore, I feel alan is playing smartly by not rushing to find every little thing that might possibly be suspicious and throw a vote on someone because of it.

On Milton: He was just joking around. If he doesn't stop then I'll start getting suspicious of him.

As for my current thoughts:

The bolded part of this post by austin makes me suspicious of him.
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On June 13 2012 22:23 austinmcc wrote:
I don't read those posts as contradictory, believe the second one clarifies the first and explains that, while he'd consider a NL, the standard is higher than "Town is lynching someone that isn't one of my top couple reads."

That said, even if the two statements are entirely contradictory, I don't really see anything scummy in that. More inclined to see contradictions concerning votes and reads as scummy, where someone has stated one thing but then has to take a party line, rather than super early statements concerning a no lynch. There's no agenda to push on that issue.


Two completely contradictory statements without reasoning for the change is very suspicious. This is a good way to catch scum. They know the alignment of every person, so they have to make cases that they know are wrong (excluding bussing). This can lead to contradictory posts to make them better fit in with the current town mindset.

Austin, why don't you think that contradictory statements are suspicious?


We need more information, and the only way to get that information is by pressuring people, scum starts with an information advantage and the faster we work to even that out, the better position we'll be in.


I agree that we need more information and we get that from pressuring people, but we need to do that smartly. If too many people are throwing around minor accusations all the time, it just confuses the town and allows mafia to sit back and laugh. That is what happened in NMM XIII when I was mafia. Ask austin, he was in it too.

On June 14 2012 03:38 Crossfire99 wrote:
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On June 14 2012 02:45 s0Lstice wrote:
Crossfire99, what do you think of what I said about Mouldy Jeb?

Roflwaffles55, same question.


Yeah Mouldy is acting really weird. He needs to get active to explain himself. Everything he has said so far lacks good reasoning.

On June 14 2012 03:50 Crossfire99 wrote:
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On June 14 2012 03:24 s0Lstice wrote:
On June 14 2012 02:02 Crossfire99 wrote:
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Be careful roflwaffle, votes are only easily removable if you are around to remove them. You never know what might happen. Also, votes early on in the day cycle that don't really mean much followed by complete disappearance during a controversial lynch can be scum tactic to avoid making mistakes in a heated debate that occurs last minute.


What an odd thing to say. Your message boils down to: don't vote because you might not be around later, and when that happens you are going to look scummy. Discouraging voting for such an arbitrary reason looks kind of scummy. Also, this hall-monitor stuff is a comfortable way for scum to post and have it look like they are pro-town.


I never said don't vote. I just said be careful about throwing your votes around willy-nilly under the premise that you are going to remove them later. I never even said don't do that. I just don't want someone sticking someone else with a vote for flimsy reasons that ends up sealing a lynch because they couldn't get back in time to change it. That was the entire point of those two sentences.

As for the mention of the scum tactic, I'm just saying that sometimes scum can not take part in big discussions later in the day by voting early and then disappearing. I'm just trying to help roflwaffle, by trying to get him to think about taking his vote seriously and having good reasons for whatever he does. If no one holds anyone accountable mafia can just breeze on by.



3) notice his defensive, and meek tone; in addition to his low post count. he's obviously afraid to attract attention to himself
4) he was lurking for a LONGGG time before he finally decided to post . What u thought we all forgot about that?
Not much there. His bit on crossfire is way more robust than his bit on golden or MJ, but still doesn't feel like a whole lot of scumhunting for a day. Again though, I want to wait on him.




That leaves me with cross.
##Vote: Crossfire99

What I'd ask of everyone is to show me where Crossfire has done any scumhunting. He posted a little, dropped off the face of the earth, came back, responded to everyone's comments towards him, but never even gave us a single read throughout the day. Nobody looked scummy, because he really just didn't comment on ANYONE. I'm confused as to how that can be towny behavior, and he dropped in, spent time responding to all these people, but spent 0 characters doing any kind of hunting himself.

Lurking is bad, but you can lurk and contribute when you pop up. HeavOnEarth didn't contribute when he came back. Crossfire didn't contribute when he came back, except addressing our concerns about him. Between the timing of the votes on HeavOn and the lack of any push on him, I'd rather go with Crossfire today.
. Like I mentioned earlier, I think austin's reasoning when related to me gets clouded a little by our last game. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt for now and hopefully he'll come around, but if he continues this tunneling unnecessarily then I'll have to reconsider.

Trackdoor then comes in and votes last with this + Show Spoiler +
On June 15 2012 08:52 trackd00r wrote:
I was checking Heaven's filter.

I must admint that he looks suspicious at this stage of the game. I was expecting from him a more detailed analysis of his play, since he stated that he has more experience in playing mafia.

I dislike the fact that he took the most easy target to pressure (golden), instead of trying to outline the other players, He also adds some points against CF, but isn't really big of a deal.

Although I share some suspicions with him, I see that he is not contributing at the same level as the rest of us are. I don't really think that it will be that much of a loss if he flips town. If that is the case, he have a whole post history behind us too see who bandwagoned and who tried to hunt down mafia

As I don't want a NL, I'll change my vote to heaven.

##Unvote: O.Golden_ne
##Vote: HeavOnEarth
. He is now just jumping on the obvious bandwagon. I'll give a null read on this until I can go through his filter.

I think that leaves everyone except for me and Heavon. I won't even bother quoting Heavon. He just went with a weak vote on Golden and then got lynched. And I missed the lynch for the reasons stated above.

Ok. That's all the time I have for now (I should have gone to bed an hour and a half ago, but whatever). I don't know if I'll be back in time before the night ends to post some more thoughts, so consider this my contribution for now. If I survive the lynch, I'll look into roflwaffle's filter and get a better read on him. I encourage you all to do the same and let me know what you think whether you agree or disagree.
) and analyze my null reads. I'm sticking with solstice, alan, and suki as townie (alan is obviously confirmed) as well as austin and trackdoor cause they flipped. I'm also going with solstice's logic on golden and unforgiven/milton. They were pushed hard (along with me) day 1 so I say they are town. This leaves milton and sciberbia. I went through milton's filter and it seems townie. There is nothing that sticks out to me that is screaming scum. I even like how fast and how hard he came out against solstice's lynch list plan. That works in his favor.

This only leaves sciberbia. A first run through of his filter makes it seem like he is town. He is active and contributes, but when you look closely there are some things that stick out. I'll start in chronological order to show the progression in his play.

His opening posts have content but only in the vein of commenting on others posts. His first post where he lays out his suspicions is this + Show Spoiler +
On June 14 2012 13:02 sciberbia wrote:
I've been studying the thread and I currently find these 3 most suspicious: suki, Crossfire99, and HeavOnEarth

I've been staring at suki's filter for the last half hour, so I'll dedicate the rest of this post to my case on suki, and detail my thoughts on crossfire and heavonEarth in another post. Here are several reasons why I am suspicious of suki:

Her original accusation of trackd00r+ Show Spoiler +

suki's original accusation of trackd00r was quite strong. She says:
-- This post screams to me that he's trying to be super cautious...
-- BUT WAIT! Just ONE post previous to that he says...
-- try to take a firm stance, and then you do the most scummy wishy-washy-ness thing ever the very next post.
-- ##vote trackd00r

She clearly thinks trackd00r has a good chance of being scum, and is interested in making everyone suspicious of him. Keep this in mind for later.

Anyway, this original accusation drew my attention for a couple reasons.
-- First of all, she twists his words, so her case isn't good
-- As austinmcc said, even if trackd00r had contradicted himself, that's not a great scumtell. Mafia don't intentionally promote mafia policies. That's way too obvious. So I think suki is attacking him for a (percieved) confusing stance, not a scumtell.
-- We lynched suki last game for being wishy/washy. I could definitely see a mafia suki making a bit of a stretch just to make an early "bold" case, and try to look townie. trackd00r would make a good target of such a case since he is new and his first couple posts were a bit confusing (difficult to read).

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I wasn't too suspicious based on suki's initial accusation. But I really didn't like the way in which she backed down from it.

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On June 14 2012 00:06 suki wrote:
As has been pointed out, the contradiction isn't as severe as I initially thought it was.

##unvote trackd00r

I thought at the very least I could rouse a response from trackd00r, however my case was too weak and I feel that no useful information can be gleamed from people simply agreeing on its flimsiness.



Before, she thought there was a severe contradiction. Now, she says that there is still a contradiction, but it isn't that severe. What? I was expecting her to say that she had misread/misunderstood. I still don't see any contradiction at all. Her post suggests that she doesn't want to completely back down from her accusation, but I don't see why she is still suspicious of trackd00r at all. @suki please clarify this

To me, the most scummy line in her whole filter is "I thought at the very least I could rouse a response from trackd00r". Reading her original response, she strongly accuses trackd00r and seems very interested in getting him lynched. This line about "at the very least" seems contradictory to that motivation.

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suki was super excited to play this game and was even more excited at the prospect of playing town. Look through her filter. Her posts so far aren't what I would expect from a town suki. After the initial accusation, everything she has said is bland and uninteresting. I don't think she has yet shared any real insight, or shown a lot of interest in helping town. It feels more like she is going through the motions.

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This is pretty circumstancial, so I don't expect many of you to buy into it, but I find the timing of her first two posts odd. First of all, starting the game about 4 hours late is slightly indicative of mafia. Secondly, why does she post a policy response 6 minutes after her first accusation post? She had clearly read the whole thread before posting either. This is all a bit odd to me, and I think it lends credence to the idea that she just wanted to start off boldly to avoid suspicion.


The only thing in her filter that gives me a townie feel is her recent statement about finding golden's opening post suspicious, but waiting to comment on it. Overall, I would rate suki as definitely suspicious, based mostly on her accusation of trackd00r and the way she backed down from it.
and is 3 hours after solstices post which brings the pressure on Heavon that leads the charge on getting him lynched (+ Show Spoiler +
On June 14 2012 10:07 s0Lstice wrote:
Alright, so I went filter spelunking and explored every nook and cranny. My general impression at this moment is one of disappointment. I know it's rare to get good reads on day 1, but some people's filters are incredibly barren. If I had to lynch right now, here would be my suspects.

HeavOnEarth
He's pretty lurky. His hard stance is on Golden, where he builds a case on the poor guy's intro post. Look at the case:

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On June 13 2012 23:52 HeavOnEarth wrote:
morning everyone
First off, id like to say im suspicious of everyone who tries to stay under the radar. I feel newer mafia players have a tendency to try and stay quiet.
That said O.Golden_ne looks the most suspicious to me-

On June 13 2012 09:43 O.Golden_ne wrote:
On June 13 2012 09:25 austinmcc wrote:
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I'm not looking to push lurkers early and stay on them for an entire day cycle, killing discussion, but they need to be considered and I'd rather be looking at them on earlier days than when we're close to/at LYLO/MYLO.


agreed.

NL is bad. Killing lurking is necessary. Lynching scum is great.

Lets get the ball rolling and squeeze out the lurkers early so we can narrow things down later on. Looking forward to scumhunting, i'm happy with the deadline on this as its 10am for me in Aust, which means i'll be able to meet the deadlines for lynching in the mornings a little easier.

I'll try my hardest this game to meet these deadlines and to contribute useful information rather than filler.

Essentially i'm all for an agressive early game. I want to be able to establish some basic reads by the end of Day one, and if theres no-one who's appropriately scummy then we lynch a lurker.

Golden


Is there anything even remotely helpful in this post? Everyone knows NL is bad. he seems to be posting for the sake of it
also, i checked his last game, (he was townie)
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=337671&user=92568
u can tell his tone is completely different, and he is generally more helpful.


Think of it like this. Scum will be making cases against people on day 1...they have to. I looked at all the cases people have made, and this one stank especially bad. It's built entirely around a hello post. It has a very artificial feel to it.

Also, he just posted this:

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On June 14 2012 08:47 HeavOnEarth wrote:
On June 14 2012 08:38 s0Lstice wrote:
Just checking in guys. I'm going to make a post on my top scumreads in a few hours, as well as some errata. Lynch time is fast approaching and we really need to buckle down.

? lynch isn't for another 24 hours?


Townies always feel the pressure of the ticking clock. Half of our time being gone doesn't seem to trouble him. He hasn't really bothered to comment on what's been going on in the thread outside of his own reads.

He's been on Mouldy Jeb's case as well. Here's some more recent(!) material:

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On June 14 2012 09:32 HeavOnEarth wrote:
was sort of waiting for MJ to post something after he was like hurr durr ima post soon. i took a look at his previous game though and his posts seem consistent from when he was townie. hes really not helping at all, and definitely still looks scum, but it feels like poor town play rather than mafia.


Confused? Me too. I think this dude has a chance at flipping scum.

alan133
There is already suspicion surrounding him, so I won't rehash. The main thing that raises my eyebrows is his defense against rofflwaffles. It was strong, and that was the problem. He was lightly gouged and hit back full force. This can be a sign of fear, or 'something to hide' as waffles put it.

Mouldy Jeb
There isn't really much of a case here. I went and looked at the Magic:The Gathering mafia, and his style is very similar. His style is dangerous, because it's near impossible to read. There is something to go on with his treatment of rofflwaffles, but that's it. Frankly, I hate the idea of him being around late game.

I would vote for any of these three at this moment, but I'm not in love with any of these cases. We had it easy last game thanks to sciberbia. That said, you do the best with the circumstances you have, and lynch the scummiest player. We still have some time, so I hope we can improve our odds.

Now for the errata. Austinmcc and Crossfire99 really need to post more. Just awful filters. Sciberbia, I have a mental block where I auto-green you in my mind. I fought it off and you really aren't posting much either. I hope you have something for us soon.

) Now why is this important? In his post sciberbia lists three suspicious players: suki, me, and Heavon, but he only posts his case on suki in this post. This gives him time to gauge how people are going to respond to solstice's case. Without much to go on because no one really responds to solstice's suspicions yet, he has to post his cases on me and heavon to make sure he doesn't become suspcious. This is his post + Show Spoiler +
On June 14 2012 14:10 sciberbia wrote:
As promised, here are my thoughts on crossfire and heavonEarth.

crossfire
There isn't any one thing that looks super scummy, but nothing in his filter gives me a townie feel, and there are a handful of small things that suggest he is scum:

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The bolded part of this post by austin makes me suspicious of him.
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On June 13 2012 22:23 austinmcc wrote:
I don't read those posts as contradictory, believe the second one clarifies the first and explains that, while he'd consider a NL, the standard is higher than "Town is lynching someone that isn't one of my top couple reads."

That said, even if the two statements are entirely contradictory, I don't really see anything scummy in that. More inclined to see contradictions concerning votes and reads as scummy, where someone has stated one thing but then has to take a party line, rather than super early statements concerning a no lynch. There's no agenda to push on that issue.


Two completely contradictory statements without reasoning for the change is very suspicious. This is a good way to catch scum. They know the alignment of every person, so they have to make cases that they know are wrong (excluding bussing). This can lead to contradictory posts to make them better fit in with the current town mindset.

Austin, why don't you think that contradictory statements are suspicious?


This is exactly the kind of D1 case I would expect a scum to make. Austin makes the somewhat peculiar assertion that there is nothing scummy about contradicting yourself on policy during the early game. Whether or not you agree with this statement is irrelevant.

The point is, what does a mafia Austin stand to gain by making a statement like this? Is he planning on contradicting himself later? No. It's very likely that he actually believes what he said so the fact that he said it isn't indicative of his alignment. I don't think Austin's statement is scummy at all.

But, it is definitely a statement that a mafia could attack, because it seems illogical. It's easy to criticize. And that's what crossfire did.

This is the kind of thing mafia do D1: attack people for seemingly illogical statements even though it isn't a scumtell. Like the mafia's attacks on Vivax from last game.

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On June 14 2012 03:38 Crossfire99 wrote:
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On June 14 2012 02:45 s0Lstice wrote:
Crossfire99, what do you think of what I said about Mouldy Jeb?

Roflwaffles55, same question.


Yeah Mouldy is acting really weird. He needs to get active to explain himself. Everything he has said so far lacks good reasoning.



s0Lstice, an influential player and good townie, calls Mouldy Jeb his #1 suspicion. s0Lstice then explicitly asks crossfire for an opinion on Mouldy.

Crossfire does exactly what I would expect a mafia to do. Agrees with the influential player on his #1 scumread, reiterating what s0Lstice said. Mouldy Jeb would undoubtedly be an easy lynch today, and assuming that he is town, would take the pressure off mafia.

And if crossfire is so suspicious of MJ, why didn't he say anything until s0Lstice prompted him?

I grant that none of this is solid evidence and that a townie could plausibly act the same way, but crossfire's response is definitely consistent with mafia behavior.

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Looking through the rest of his filter, he doesn't say much meaty stuff. In his first post, he rehashes a lot of what previous people had said. And after that, he talks a lot about policy issues such as when to vote and how to pressure people. Nothing too controversial in his entire filter.


Overall, I'd say crossfire looks a bit scummy.

HeavOnEarth
I don't have all that much too analyze with HeavOn Earth, but a couple things look scummy

throws suspicion on several easy targets+ Show Spoiler +

My main problem with him is that he has halfheartedly thrown suspicion onto golden, MJ, and crossfire. All three of these players were rather quiet (at least initially) and relatively easy targets. As s0sltice said, heavOnEarth's actual cases were unimpressive. Here are heavOnEarth's scumhunting posts:

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On June 13 2012 23:52 HeavOnEarth wrote:
...That said O.Golden_ne looks the most suspicious to me-

*quotes Golden*

Is there anything even remotely helpful in this post? Everyone knows NL is bad. he seems to be posting for the sake of it
also, i checked his last game, (he was townie)
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=337671&user=92568
u can tell his tone is completely different, and he is generally more helpful.

also id like to point out crossfire is completely inactive, whereas in past games he was a pretty talkative little townie.
thoughts?


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On June 14 2012 02:39 HeavOnEarth wrote:
As for my suspicions, golden still hasn't replied, and there seems to be a lot of random fluff RIGHT AFTER my accusation, by both Mouldy Jeb AND crossfire( oh hey there nice of u to suddenly wake up )
this is a common mafia tactic, to throw the spotlight off someone being accused.

check out Mouldy Jeb's posts, and accusations
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On June 14 2012 00:20 Mouldy Jeb wrote:
nope roffle that was a gut feeling about you that why I stated I have no evidence


Why would someone try to direct suspicions with NO reasoning?




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On June 14 2012 09:32 HeavOnEarth wrote:
was sort of waiting for MJ to post something after he was like hurr durr ima post soon. i took a look at his previous game though and his posts seem consistent from when he was townie. hes really not helping at all, and definitely still looks scum, but it feels like poor town play rather than mafia.

as for golden im still undecided since he hasnt posted anything what the fuck -_-. why sign up if ur not gonna fucking play
but i guess i doubt hes mafia, i would've expected at least a simple reply to my accusations if he was mafia by now. but it seems he just doesnt give a fuck

@_@ idk. kinda confused at this point


In this post he becomes wishy/washy about his suspicions on MJ and golden. In particular he says "as far as golden im still undecided". What? Before, golden seemed most suspicious to heavOnEarth. Only recently has he become undecided. This is pretty wishy/washy. The only reason I don't see this as super scummy is that he voluntarily adjusted his reads; nobody asked him to clarify them.


My suspicions on HeavOnEarth are tempered by some of the boldness in his filter, such as
-- saying "it doesn't matter if your suggestions are completely bad"
-- his questioning s0Lstice about the lynch not being for 24 hours
-- his abrasive summary of how MJ and golden have been playing

Overall, I'd say HeavOnEarth is somewhat suspicious

suki
I see that suki has recently doubled or tripled the size of her filter in just two posts. I'm going to read through these and figure out how they affect my read on her.
. Notice how he lists what is scummy in my and Heavon's play, but then he soft defends Heavon with these two statements
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-- his questioning s0Lstice about the lynch not being for 24 hours
-- his abrasive summary of how MJ and golden have been playing
. These are statements that were used to show how scummy Heavon was. How can you view this as townie? His next posts just respond to some stuff in the thread and it looks like he is trying to be helpful. Eventually you get to this post + Show Spoiler +
On June 15 2012 07:04 sciberbia wrote:
Lynch Candidates based on everyone's stated convictions

HeavOnEarth
interested in lynching(8): suki, me, s0lstice, roflwaffle, milton, alan, austin, golden
no comment(3): trackd00r, crossfire, MJ

Many people want to lynch him and nobody is actually defending him at the moment. There is much less consensus on the other candidates (see below).

Crossfire
interested in lynching(5): me, austin, trackd00r, milton, heavOnEarth
not convinced(4): s0lstice, golden, alan, suki
no comment(2): MJ, roflwaffles

Some people find him suspicious. Others remain unconvinced. I don't think it makes sense to lynch him over HeavOnEarth because some people actually don't find him suspicious.

Mouldy Jeb
The argument for lynching him is extreme lurking and unhelpfulness. I'm not against lynching lurkers if we don't have any good lynch candidates. But in this case we do: most people find HeavOnEarth scummy. In addition, we get little information from MJ's flip, whereas we get quite a bit from heavOnEarth.

golden
I haven't gone through the filter, but I just don't get the feeling that there is enough suspicion on him to warrant a lynch over HeavOnEarth.

IN SUMMARY
HeavOnEarth seems like the consensus lynch target. Personally, I think he has a good chance of flipping red. I'll detail my thoughts on him in a subsequent post. Overall, seems like the sensible player to lynch.

@heavOnEarth
It looks likely that you will be lynched today. Please post a defense and more importantly give as many reads as you can.

@trackd00r, crossfire, MJ
Please post your opinion on HeavOnEarth as soon as possible. It's important that everyone weighs in on the lynch candidates, especially the one that looks most likely to be lynched.
. It is kind of obvious that most people think Heavon is the most suspcious considering there are already 6 votes on him at the time, including even rofl's bus attempt, so mafia can already see the writing on the wall. There is really no reason to post this summary post at all. Just post whether you agree with the Heavon lynch or post your own better read and vote. It is a post that makes him look like he is contributing but in reality he isn't. He then votes for Heavon as the 2nd to last person on him to cover his butt.

This is then where sciberbia becomes smart and starts stepping up his game, but there are some clues. First I will start with this fact sciberbia was active during all of night 1, from the beginning to the end. Here are his post times in order + Show Spoiler +
On June 15 2012 09:12 sciberbia wrote:
On June 15 2012 13:46 sciberbia wrote:
On June 15 2012 16:54 sciberbia wrote:
On June 16 2012 01:48 sciberbia wrote:
On June 16 2012 03:14 sciberbia wrote:
On June 16 2012 09:00 sciberbia wrote:
. Interesting, but now this is the part where sciberbia jumps on a golden opportunity to show how townie he is. The first post bringing suspicion to rofl was my post here + Show Spoiler +
On June 15 2012 14:24 Crossfire99 wrote:
Ok now let's analyze this lynch.

Solstice drew the first blood with these + Show Spoiler +
On June 14 2012 10:07 s0Lstice wrote:
Alright, so I went filter spelunking and explored every nook and cranny. My general impression at this moment is one of disappointment. I know it's rare to get good reads on day 1, but some people's filters are incredibly barren. If I had to lynch right now, here would be my suspects.

HeavOnEarth
He's pretty lurky. His hard stance is on Golden, where he builds a case on the poor guy's intro post. Look at the case:

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On June 13 2012 23:52 HeavOnEarth wrote:
morning everyone
First off, id like to say im suspicious of everyone who tries to stay under the radar. I feel newer mafia players have a tendency to try and stay quiet.
That said O.Golden_ne looks the most suspicious to me-

On June 13 2012 09:43 O.Golden_ne wrote:
On June 13 2012 09:25 austinmcc wrote:
-snip
I'm not looking to push lurkers early and stay on them for an entire day cycle, killing discussion, but they need to be considered and I'd rather be looking at them on earlier days than when we're close to/at LYLO/MYLO.


agreed.

NL is bad. Killing lurking is necessary. Lynching scum is great.

Lets get the ball rolling and squeeze out the lurkers early so we can narrow things down later on. Looking forward to scumhunting, i'm happy with the deadline on this as its 10am for me in Aust, which means i'll be able to meet the deadlines for lynching in the mornings a little easier.

I'll try my hardest this game to meet these deadlines and to contribute useful information rather than filler.

Essentially i'm all for an agressive early game. I want to be able to establish some basic reads by the end of Day one, and if theres no-one who's appropriately scummy then we lynch a lurker.

Golden


Is there anything even remotely helpful in this post? Everyone knows NL is bad. he seems to be posting for the sake of it
also, i checked his last game, (he was townie)
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=337671&user=92568
u can tell his tone is completely different, and he is generally more helpful.


Think of it like this. Scum will be making cases against people on day 1...they have to. I looked at all the cases people have made, and this one stank especially bad. It's built entirely around a hello post. It has a very artificial feel to it.

Also, he just posted this:

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On June 14 2012 08:47 HeavOnEarth wrote:
On June 14 2012 08:38 s0Lstice wrote:
Just checking in guys. I'm going to make a post on my top scumreads in a few hours, as well as some errata. Lynch time is fast approaching and we really need to buckle down.

? lynch isn't for another 24 hours?


Townies always feel the pressure of the ticking clock. Half of our time being gone doesn't seem to trouble him. He hasn't really bothered to comment on what's been going on in the thread outside of his own reads.

He's been on Mouldy Jeb's case as well. Here's some more recent(!) material:

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On June 14 2012 09:32 HeavOnEarth wrote:
was sort of waiting for MJ to post something after he was like hurr durr ima post soon. i took a look at his previous game though and his posts seem consistent from when he was townie. hes really not helping at all, and definitely still looks scum, but it feels like poor town play rather than mafia.


Confused? Me too. I think this dude has a chance at flipping scum.

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On June 15 2012 00:50 s0Lstice wrote:
Some housekeeping stuff first..

I am removing alan133 from my scum list. The main thing that had me suspicious was his strong-arm defense, but everything following that has been fine. I like that he is holding himself accountable for his style, and I want to see what he can do when not under pressure.

austin and suki have commented on crossfire99, and I have to say I agree. I was planning on wrighting a post similar to what suki has done. The cogent point is that he has long bouts of inactivity when he is both scum and town. He should get the same level of suspicion that every lurker gets, but nothing special beyond that I feel. His filter right now is pretty garbagey, and hard to get a read on. I wouldn't be upset if we lynched him, but I think we can do better.

Here is better: HeavOnEarth. Nothing has happened to change my initial opinion on him for the better. In fact, him buddying up to sciberbia in his latest post makes him look worse. Go read my case if you missed it. I'm not the only one to see him as suspicious, so I think there is plenty of traction here.

##vote HeavOnEarth
. His case on Heavon was solid and good. It doesn't seem like a mafia bus attempt to me (it's too well thought out and puts legit pressure on Heavon), so I see him as a townie.

Then alan joins the fun with this + Show Spoiler +
On June 15 2012 04:00 alan133 wrote:
I see the current pressure are easing off from me. I also realize I has pretty much ignored everyone else except for rolf and suki.

@HeavOnEarth
His first few points seem disconnected. None of them relates to each other: From FoSing Golden for his opening post, + Show Spoiler +
And I thought rofl@me and suki@trap was bad
later jumping to accusing Mouldy Jeb (he was an easy target), and then commenting on s0ltice's preception on lynch time + Show Spoiler +
On June 14 2012 08:47 HeavOnEarth wrote:
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On June 14 2012 08:38 s0Lstice wrote:
Just checking in guys. I'm going to make a post on my top scumreads in a few hours, as well as some errata. Lynch time is fast approaching and we really need to buckle down.

? lynch isn't for another 24 hours?

.

He also state that he is waiting for responses. Upon being debunked on Gold's read, he basically dismiss it similar the way suki has dismissed her case on trap, claiming they are trying to start conversation. In suki's case, this is still believable. Before her case there was no controversy, and very little to talk about. However, when Heave posted on Gold, there were already controversies + Show Spoiler +
rolf@me suki@trap
and he ignore them altogether. I interpret his motive is to lynch a lurker over an already presented scummy player, and this can hardly be town.

Very Suspicious

Right now, I find Heav and MJ were the best lynch candidates, and HeavOnEarth appears to be more scummy

##unvote: Suki
##vote: HeavOnEarth

I am off to bed, it is 3 am right here. I will get up in 4 hours so we can get a successful lynch.

Another refresh reveals more post from crossfire. My opinion on him has not swayed.
. He did some good analysis on Heavon and defend himself against suki well, so I feel he is townie right now.

Next suki comes to the party + Show Spoiler +
On June 15 2012 04:58 suki wrote:
HeavOnEarth:


Okay, something really really sticks out to me in Heavon's first post, and it's not about golden.

It's this particular line:

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also id like to point out crossfire is completely inactive, whereas in past games he was a pretty talkative little townie.
thoughts?


Above, I posted my opinions on Crossfire, where I had gone through pretty much his entire filter in his two previous games, and the big thing I noted was that Crossfire LURKED very hard in his first game as blue, and somewhat lurked in the second game as red.

HeavOn clearly is talking about Crossfire's game as blue, 'He was a pretty talkative little townie'. This is clearly wrong.

He continues his case against Crossfire later after sciberbia brings it up. This has already been labelled as suspicious. It's a big point against him that he waited until someone else pointed fingers at Crossfire, when he had so early established a read on Crossfire - a fairly in depth read as he had even looked at Crossfire's filters from previous games.

The thing is, the case HeavOn makes against crossfire disregards the previous game filters. Crossfire, as mafia, was assertive actively pushed cases against other players. He also lurked quite a bit.


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As for golden i admit my analysis was pretty damn bad LOL , but he didn't really have any other posts for me to provoke him with, and i still feel its a strong play to accuse lurkers of being scummy, just to get them to talk. The way he went about replying though felt really odd to me. For example, i don't really care if you're taking a few mins to write up a post. Why tell me about it(unless you're about to be majority lynched or something). Just feels off.


HeavOn votes for Golden despite saying that his case against Golden is weak. He doesn't back off however, stating that the response was scummy and that the scummy thing about it was how golden was commenting on the time it would take to make his posts? Seems like a very strained argument to make.

I see clear scum motivation in voting for golden. In my previous game as mafia, I harped on Miltonkram for his early vote against sciberbia. Even when my argument was convincingly rebutted, I continued to press my case against him finding any sort of scummy intent I could make up. Why? Because I didn't want to be wishy-washy.

HeavOn's case against golden is that golden 'just feels off'. This makes Golden a 'solid lynch' to him.


I'm out of time, but that's my insight into HeavOn. I feel that there can definitely be scum motivation behind his posts. I haven't had time to closely look at other people but for now HeavOn is clearly a scummier target than alan.

##unvote alan113
##vote HeavOnEarth
. Suki follows up with some more good analysis on Heavon and I see her also as town.

Those three I mentioned above all brought solid analysis and new thoughts on Heavon, so I feel confident in seeing them as town for right now.

Then Milton (+ Show Spoiler +
On June 15 2012 04:59 Miltonkram wrote:
Oops, slept in a bit later than I'd planned. s0Lstice, I'm inclined to agree with you. HeavOnEarth looks like the best lynch candidate.

Everybody, I'd suggest you take a look at him. His filter is not particularly long, but I think there is enough scummy behavior there to warrant a vote.

##Vote: HeavOnEarth
), roflwaffle (+ Show Spoiler +
On June 15 2012 05:09 roflwaffles55 wrote:
I noticed already that his play was scummy, however I felt like it was the easy way out, I was hoping to nail a more influential scum D1, but I guess that's just new player optimism... If he flips scum, I'm not sure what kind of information we're going to gain from it as his posts don't seem to link him to anyone.. and if he flips town then all we really know is that he was a poor townie.

I'll go with the flow because he's fairly blatant with his scumminess (real word?) but I'd like to keep an eye on Crossfire, as well as keeping Mouldy Jeb in mind for a D2 lynch.

##unvote Crossfire99
##vote HeavOnEarth

I'm not sure if I'll be on tonight, I'll do my absolute best to be on in case there's a swing of opinion.
), and Golden (+ Show Spoiler +
On June 15 2012 06:27 O.Golden_ne wrote:

in regards to HeavonEarth.
In relation to my:
a) knowing i'm town.
b) Him trying to bus me one the grounds of "seems like a solid case".
c) lacklustre contribution and no rebuttle to any arguments.
i feel like he see's a bandwagon forming and jumps on straight away.


#VOTE: HeavonEarth

i still maintain a #FOS on MouldyJeb
i still owe the group a comment on Crossfire99 but i honestly dont have time for it before work.
) all jump on the bandwagon without much new to add (not necessarily scummy in and of itself, there is only so much one can add based on one day's filter). I did notice a really weird thing about roflwaffle's post, though. He's upset that we are going to get too easy of a lynch and said that he knows Heavon is suspicious but thinks it's more worthwhile to attack someone with more influence like me (huh?, I've been under suspicion all day, if anything that makes people look at me more closely, there's no way I'm going to be influential). Also, his suspicion of Heavon up to that point consists of this + Show Spoiler +
On June 15 2012 02:44 roflwaffles55 wrote:
I'm going to post as though all of these people are scum, and the impact they have a chance to make if they are left alive. I think it will give a different way of thinking about it.

HeavOnEarth

His play is quite suspicious and his accusations and suspicions lackluster at best. He could just as easily be an awful townie as scum.

Overall he's been fairly ineffectual, but if he's hiding behind a mask of confusion and bad reads, he could be an annoyance as scum later on.

I believe that the most lynchable potential scum right now would be Crossfire99. I understand that there are already votes on HeavOnEarth, but if he really is that incompetent at bringing cases to the table, as a scum, why would he try to post them? He is suspicious to me, but not as suspicious as Crossfire. Unless he responds to the accusations in a convincing and collected manner soon, I strongly believe that he should be lynched.

##vote Crossfire99
. All of this suspicion came after solstice's case against Heavon and he adds nothing new to it except postulating that he could be an awful townie (we now know that's not true). This makes me suspicious of roflwaffle.

This is followed by sciberbia's vote + Show Spoiler +
On June 15 2012 07:56 sciberbia wrote:
My thoughts on HeavOnEarth:

I was originally somewhat suspicious of him for throwing suspicion onto a handful of easy targets, and then becoming wishy/washy about it. He has since made me more suspicious with his response and attitude towards golden.

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On June 14 2012 20:15 HeavOnEarth wrote:
As for golden i admit my analysis was pretty damn bad LOL , but he didn't really have any other posts for me to provoke him with, and i still feel its a strong play to accuse lurkers of being scummy, just to get them to talk. The way he went about replying though felt really odd to me. For example, i don't really care if you're taking a few mins to write up a post. Why tell me about it(unless you're about to be majority lynched or something). Just feels off.


First of all, he admits that his case was "pretty damn bad" and LOL's about it. I see this as slightly scummy. He is being ingratiating and agreeable, rather than firm, objective, and analytic. This is more typical of mafia than of townies.

Next HeavOnEarth says that there were no other posts to provoke Golden with. The question I'm left asking myself is: why did HeavOnEarth feel that he had to attack Golden at all? He says it was strong play of him to "accuse lurkers of being scummy", but at the time of HeavOnEarth's accusation, golden didn't look lurky. Golden made 1 post in the first 4 hours of the game, and then HeavOnEarth accused him. 1 decent-sized post in the first 4 hours isn't lurky. Why was HeavOnEarth looking for a reason to "provoke him"?

Finally, heavOnEarth refuses to back down from his suspicions of golden, and even ends up voting golden, but doesn't give any good reasons. He just says that golden's posting seems odd. Odd =/= scummy. It looks like he just arbitrarily picked a target to attack at the beginning and now won't back down.

Overall, I think he has a good chance of being mafia and I'm happy with lynching him.

##Vote HeavOnEarth
. He gives some good reasoning for his vote, but I feel it is too late in the bandwagon to say this makes him townie. It could be a mafia finally realizing that his partner is done for and needs to jump on to be less suspicious. I'll leave this as a null read for now.

Then austin comes in and votes for me with this + Show Spoiler +
On June 15 2012 08:28 austinmcc wrote:
I think Heavon looks scummy. But his voting took off after he posted that he was going to be gone for auto repairs. And there's been very little pushback. I'm particularly worried by: (1) us going for the guy who basically said "Won't be around to defend myself," and (2) the lack of any pushback against him, when we had multiple targets recently. There could be some bussing going on, but we had a couple other juicy targets, and I wouldn't expect a bus in that situation. At the very least, my stance right now is that he doesn't look good, but the vast majority of the votes and comments on him seem to have occurred after he said he was leaving. I don't want to lynch him today based on that alone.

See your comment towards him. Yes, his reads would help town. Yes, he ought to defend himself. But he may actually have been gone these last few hours, and I want to see his response before I lynch him. If it looks bad, there's D2. I think I'm saying the same thing over and over, so I'll knock it off.

Apart from those basic statements, I'll note this. He DOES fit into a category of people trying to look like they're scumhunting but not. The 1 post suspicion of Golden, his comment on MJ -
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On June 14 2012 02:39 HeavOnEarth wrote:
check out Mouldy Jeb's posts, and accusations
On June 14 2012 00:20 Mouldy Jeb wrote:
nope roffle that was a gut feeling about you that why I stated I have no evidence


Why would someone try to direct suspicions with NO reasoning?
his chiming in on crossfire - + Show Spoiler +
On June 14 2012 20:15 HeavOnEarth wrote:
@Sciberbia
in addition to what u said on crossfire, notice that he
1) only replies when called out. Every message he is replying to someone, not making his own points aside from his opening.
2) Every one of his posts feels like complete filler to me. he is trying to LOOK helpful, without actively contributing anything
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On June 14 2012 02:06 Crossfire99 wrote:
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On June 14 2012 02:00 roflwaffles55 wrote:
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On June 14 2012 01:56 Crossfire99 wrote:
Just woke up. I'll start with that only as a last resort will I be for lynching a lurker Day 1. If we can get some good scum hunting done Day 1 we will have a more productive lynch than just a random lurker. Now onto what has been happening.

On the whole suki and trapdoor issue:
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On June 13 2012 12:44 suki wrote:
Is it just me or is trackd00r coming off as scummy already?

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If I understood correctly, it doesn't mean that I would stop any lynch that I didn't mention on my analysis. Just because I have a candidate for lynch, it doesn't imply that I discard any other possibility.

It's something related to common sense. If any other cases are convincing enough, I'll throw my vote there in the case I can't get a majority. In the other hand, if we end up like RNG lynching (which is a bad idea), any other poster that could be doing silly mistakes, or even a player practically saying ''hey guys, I'm mafia, lynch me'' that's when it goes against my mindset. Any possibility is valuable, but if there is something absurdly wrong, I'll call it, even if that means a no lynch.


This post screams to me that he's trying to be super cautious with his words, so that he'll have a safety net if/when he ever changes a vote or bandwagons on someone else. He throws out some 'obvious' examples of reasons of what wouldn't agree with him, and even mentions that he would follow through on a read, even if it that means a no lynch.

BUT WAIT! Just ONE post previous to that he says this:

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I won't accept a NO LYNCH unless I believe we may have a serious mislynch coming.


...

Dude. You try to take a firm stance against something, and then you do the most scummy wishy-washy-ness thing ever the very next post. You're clearly informed about mafia as you brought up the idea of a day 1 RNG lynch, and being against a no lynch is not a difficult or complicated policy to hold. I feel that such a simple logical slip only happens if you're trying to play it safe and keep your options open.

##vote trackd00r


I think suki was just being aggressive. I admit that I found trapdoor's response post to be weird, but then I realized that English is probably not his native language, so I reread it a few times. I don't see a contradiction in there, he is just explaining that he would try to stop a lynch that he really believed was on a townie. I'll give suki the benefit of the doubt on this case and say she is an over eager townie for now.

On roflwaffle and alan:
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On June 13 2012 22:28 roflwaffles55 wrote:
I woke up this morning to the arguments made towards trackd00r, and while the arguments made against him weren't particularly convincing, his defense was a little bit lackluster as well.

However, I would like to bring your attention to someone else that is acting quite scummy as it stands.


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On June 13 2012 13:05 alan133 wrote:
On June 13 2012 11:12 roflwaffles55 wrote:
On June 13 2012 11:03 alan133 wrote:
Good morning everyone. Looks like the first thing I am going to do in the office is to play mafia on TL. I don't recognize anyone here since this is my first game, well except for s0Lsitce since he is in the game I read. That's my brief introduction, and habitually in the beginning of any game, GLHF.

I am new and am unsure how to proceed with the game, but my current strategy is to wait for more post to come. Currently I have no FoS. That also mean I do not trust anyone yet.


What are your thoughts on what's been posted as of yet?


On the inactive/lurkers lynch
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I believe inactive players/lurkers are generally anti-town/bad town play in any mafia game, so lynching them isn't a bad idea (Since I believe d1 lynch is good, refer below), if there aren't better candidates of course.


On the day 1 lynch/no lynch
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I agree on lynching day 1 based on my experience with other mafia games (outside TL) with similar setup. By reading other games on TL I also notice the current meta game is to lynch when there are more players, as it gives townies clues.


I am off to lunch, will be commenting on my thoughts later as I see some interesting posts/votes already.


His first post puts him on the bandwagon with his opinion on the inactives and lurkers, and is generally a contentless post with little to no controversy. Otherwise, nothing to bring the spotlight to him at all.

While this is not by any means evidence of scummy play, there comes to attention the next post he makes.

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On June 13 2012 15:40 alan133 wrote:
My thoughts on suki's case:
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Any possibility is valuable, but if there is something absurdly wrong, I'll call it, even if that means a no lynch.

I won't accept a NO LYNCH unless I believe we may have a serious mislynch coming.

I started writing before I refresh and saw s0lstice's post. As he already pointed it out, there are no contradictions between the two statements. trackd00r merely states that NL is bad unless it is a "serious" mislynch in both highlighted sentence. If I am missing something, please correct me.

Also, Miltonkram:
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On June 13 2012 10:35 Miltonkram wrote:
Hey all, glad to see we've got a bit of activity already.

In NMM XV we actually had a decent discussion about no-lynches (involving me making a fool of myself) and how they can actually be beneficial in certain setups. That being said, we don't know for certain if we'll have any modkills so we should leave no-lynches off the table until we hit the unlikely scenario that a no-lynch is beneficial for the town.

Town, the best way to contribute is just to get posting. Let everyone know what your thoughts are. Did someone post something suspicious? Let us know about it. Do you think the town is making a bad move? Let us know about it. If a townie lurks he/she is letting down his/her entire team. So don't do it, K? I'm sooooooooper serious. Like sooooper, soooooooooooper serious.

Hey sciberbia, remember this
##Vote: sciberbia
...heh heh heh


Is it me or you are not actually + Show Spoiler +
soooooooooooooooooper serious
? I personally think (well played) townies are not the ones that bluffs around, let alone voting someone without any reason at all? Generally, fooling around, to me, is anti-town/ bad town play.


My current opinion
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FMPOV, suki's case was most probably based on a misunderstanding, but (s)he could very well did it intentionally hoping for a bandwagon leading to a mislynch. Note that I am merely listing the possibilities, I do not FoS anyone yet, which can also mean that I do not trust anyone yet.


This is the post that really got me wondering. How by now can you have no suspicions? There has been quite a few suspicious decisions by several people, giving you more then enough time to form a case against someone, or at least apply some pressure.

His statement about trackd00r comes after s0lstice, leaving his opinion tied to a fairly influential player and just reiterating what s0lstice said with no additional evidence or opinionated comments. Again, seeming like he's contributing without actually bringing anything to the table.

He throws around some suspicion towards Miltonkram, however not enough to constitute a case or apply any pressure, just enough to make people go filter milton and consider what he might have done, which yet again, leaves him out of the spotlight.

The last statement he makes in this post is the most suspicious and the largest tell of his indecision and lack of real input. He restates his opinion that suki's case is a misunderstanding, again, nothing of value. He then continues to explain that he has no FoS and that he doesn't trust anyone, leaving his options open, and having no real contrary opinions.

His current play is anti-town at best, as he hasn't brought any of his thoughts to the table, and has only left ambiguous and bandwagoning answers to keep attention on those with controversial opinions.


I think roflwaffle is jumping a little too hard on alan here. It is like 1/3 of the way through Day 1. We are not going to have a lot to work with and consequently we aren't going to really know what to think of people until we get more information. Therefore, I feel alan is playing smartly by not rushing to find every little thing that might possibly be suspicious and throw a vote on someone because of it.

On Milton: He was just joking around. If he doesn't stop then I'll start getting suspicious of him.

As for my current thoughts:

The bolded part of this post by austin makes me suspicious of him.
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On June 13 2012 22:23 austinmcc wrote:
I don't read those posts as contradictory, believe the second one clarifies the first and explains that, while he'd consider a NL, the standard is higher than "Town is lynching someone that isn't one of my top couple reads."

That said, even if the two statements are entirely contradictory, I don't really see anything scummy in that. More inclined to see contradictions concerning votes and reads as scummy, where someone has stated one thing but then has to take a party line, rather than super early statements concerning a no lynch. There's no agenda to push on that issue.


Two completely contradictory statements without reasoning for the change is very suspicious. This is a good way to catch scum. They know the alignment of every person, so they have to make cases that they know are wrong (excluding bussing). This can lead to contradictory posts to make them better fit in with the current town mindset.

Austin, why don't you think that contradictory statements are suspicious?


We need more information, and the only way to get that information is by pressuring people, scum starts with an information advantage and the faster we work to even that out, the better position we'll be in.


I agree that we need more information and we get that from pressuring people, but we need to do that smartly. If too many people are throwing around minor accusations all the time, it just confuses the town and allows mafia to sit back and laugh. That is what happened in NMM XIII when I was mafia. Ask austin, he was in it too.

On June 14 2012 03:38 Crossfire99 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 14 2012 02:45 s0Lstice wrote:
Crossfire99, what do you think of what I said about Mouldy Jeb?

Roflwaffles55, same question.


Yeah Mouldy is acting really weird. He needs to get active to explain himself. Everything he has said so far lacks good reasoning.

On June 14 2012 03:50 Crossfire99 wrote:
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On June 14 2012 03:24 s0Lstice wrote:
On June 14 2012 02:02 Crossfire99 wrote:
--snipped

Be careful roflwaffle, votes are only easily removable if you are around to remove them. You never know what might happen. Also, votes early on in the day cycle that don't really mean much followed by complete disappearance during a controversial lynch can be scum tactic to avoid making mistakes in a heated debate that occurs last minute.


What an odd thing to say. Your message boils down to: don't vote because you might not be around later, and when that happens you are going to look scummy. Discouraging voting for such an arbitrary reason looks kind of scummy. Also, this hall-monitor stuff is a comfortable way for scum to post and have it look like they are pro-town.


I never said don't vote. I just said be careful about throwing your votes around willy-nilly under the premise that you are going to remove them later. I never even said don't do that. I just don't want someone sticking someone else with a vote for flimsy reasons that ends up sealing a lynch because they couldn't get back in time to change it. That was the entire point of those two sentences.

As for the mention of the scum tactic, I'm just saying that sometimes scum can not take part in big discussions later in the day by voting early and then disappearing. I'm just trying to help roflwaffle, by trying to get him to think about taking his vote seriously and having good reasons for whatever he does. If no one holds anyone accountable mafia can just breeze on by.



3) notice his defensive, and meek tone; in addition to his low post count. he's obviously afraid to attract attention to himself
4) he was lurking for a LONGGG time before he finally decided to post . What u thought we all forgot about that?
Not much there. His bit on crossfire is way more robust than his bit on golden or MJ, but still doesn't feel like a whole lot of scumhunting for a day. Again though, I want to wait on him.




That leaves me with cross.
##Vote: Crossfire99

What I'd ask of everyone is to show me where Crossfire has done any scumhunting. He posted a little, dropped off the face of the earth, came back, responded to everyone's comments towards him, but never even gave us a single read throughout the day. Nobody looked scummy, because he really just didn't comment on ANYONE. I'm confused as to how that can be towny behavior, and he dropped in, spent time responding to all these people, but spent 0 characters doing any kind of hunting himself.

Lurking is bad, but you can lurk and contribute when you pop up. HeavOnEarth didn't contribute when he came back. Crossfire didn't contribute when he came back, except addressing our concerns about him. Between the timing of the votes on HeavOn and the lack of any push on him, I'd rather go with Crossfire today.
. Like I mentioned earlier, I think austin's reasoning when related to me gets clouded a little by our last game. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt for now and hopefully he'll come around, but if he continues this tunneling unnecessarily then I'll have to reconsider.

Trackdoor then comes in and votes last with this + Show Spoiler +
On June 15 2012 08:52 trackd00r wrote:
I was checking Heaven's filter.

I must admint that he looks suspicious at this stage of the game. I was expecting from him a more detailed analysis of his play, since he stated that he has more experience in playing mafia.

I dislike the fact that he took the most easy target to pressure (golden), instead of trying to outline the other players, He also adds some points against CF, but isn't really big of a deal.

Although I share some suspicions with him, I see that he is not contributing at the same level as the rest of us are. I don't really think that it will be that much of a loss if he flips town. If that is the case, he have a whole post history behind us too see who bandwagoned and who tried to hunt down mafia

As I don't want a NL, I'll change my vote to heaven.

##Unvote: O.Golden_ne
##Vote: HeavOnEarth
. He is now just jumping on the obvious bandwagon. I'll give a null read on this until I can go through his filter.

I think that leaves everyone except for me and Heavon. I won't even bother quoting Heavon. He just went with a weak vote on Golden and then got lynched. And I missed the lynch for the reasons stated above.

Ok. That's all the time I have for now (I should have gone to bed an hour and a half ago, but whatever). I don't know if I'll be back in time before the night ends to post some more thoughts, so consider this my contribution for now. If I survive the lynch, I'll look into roflwaffle's filter and get a better read on him. I encourage you all to do the same and let me know what you think whether you agree or disagree.
. I didn't have time to go in depth with it at the time but I found some scummy behavior in rofl's play. My post was then followed by alan's post + Show Spoiler +
On June 15 2012 14:49 alan133 wrote:
I am going to write a post. I am aware that my writing speed is some what slow, so I am going to post a short summary of what is about to come.

@mouldy/unforgiven_ve swap - my thoughts
@sciberbia - my slight suspicion due to his discussion about night actions.
@suki and rolf "conspiracy theory"- dismissing it
@my thought on O.Golden_ne vs austinmcc. My suspicion on Golden has grown while austinmcc's filters strikes me as being town.
@my prime suspect - roflwaffle55, please look at my reasoning before judging if I have a bias. I am aware I focused on him and suki a lot and seems to be counter attacking hard. I don't see why I should hide my suspicion just because I fear people will take it wrongly. Judge my reasoning!!

I have not focused on other players yet, I will post my content soon.
. Since english isn't his native language he decided to post his summary before he elaborated so people could see his view on everything. These two posts provided the perfect opportunity for him. He could clearly see that rofl looked scummy and two people already called him out on it during the night, but no one had the time to post the case on him, so he learned from his mistake on day 1 of jumping on the bandwagon too late and decided to contribute to this new bandwagon on his scum buddy rofl.

Unfortunately for him, though, his day 2 play starts showing some more obvious signs of scumminess. he goes from against the vigi claiming but still kinda wishy-washy and ultimately not caring in these posts + Show Spoiler +
On June 16 2012 09:16 sciberbia wrote:
@s0lstice
I don't think it makes too much a difference whether vigi claims or not. Vigi will obviously claim if in danger of being lynched, and we will obviously believe them unless there is a cc (in which case it's gg). So the only way vigi can ever get lynched is if it comes down to 3/4 players left and the scum fakeclaims vigi. So I don't think it can possibly hurt for vigi to wait until 5/6 players left before claiming.

I think there is a very slight benefit to vigi not claiming today. The benefit is that scum has fewer good NK options.

Overall, I think it'd be very slightly beneficial for vigi to wait till 5/6 players left before claiming. But it's not at all a big deal, and if vigi judges that the knowledge that they (the vigi) is confirmed is helpful to town, I have no problem with that.
+ Show Spoiler +
On June 16 2012 09:57 sciberbia wrote:
crap just realized there could potentially be two vigis. So my previous thoughts about cc'ing vigi and scum fakeclaiming vigi don't fully apply. Still, I think it is most likely that there is only 1 vigi, and I don't think it really matters whether or not he claims today.
+ Show Spoiler +
On June 16 2012 14:44 sciberbia wrote:
Just a couple of small things before I sleep.

@alan
I really wouldn't be suspicious of s0Lstice just for suggesting that the vigi claim. As he explained, it really isn't that big of a deal.

thoughts on NK (or lack thereof)
+ Show Spoiler +

I've been trying, but I can't think of any likely explanation for the mafia's choice to NK austinmcc. So I'm pretty much just going to disregard the NK.

@s0Lstice
as a point of fact, austinmcc did voice some suspicions against suki yesterday. But I don't think that is really indicative of anything anyway.


check your PM's to see if you were RB'd
+ Show Spoiler +

If you were RB'd and you don't think you were a target of the jailkeeper (not a top 2 or 3 NK candidate) you should claim it now. No reason to wait in claiming this. And it tells us that the last mafia is a roleblocker (assuming you're telling the truth)


I'm going to sleep now. I'll be going over filters and doing analysis during the day tomorrow. You can expect some posts from me on lynch candidates within 18 to 24 hours.
to YOU BETTER CLAIM NOW IF YOU ARE THE SECOND VIG in these posts + Show Spoiler +
On June 17 2012 05:31 sciberbia wrote:
Just got up.

First of all, alan has claimed vigilante. if anybody else is vigilante, you should claim NOW.

@s0Lstice
I do not like your plan. It completely disregards night actions and also prevents us from making better reads based on what people post. There's a pretty decent chance we have a cop, and we surely have at least 1 power role. I think we'd have a good chance to win with your plan, but it's not guaranteed. It's the lazy way to go, and we have an even better chance to win by continuing discussion, making reads, and getting information from night actions. Also, why are you so suspicious of unforgiven/MJ?

I'm going to start looking at the cases on trackd00r, golden, and suki.
+ Show Spoiler +
On June 17 2012 06:30 sciberbia wrote:
@s0Lstice, alan
It is unlikely, but there could potentially be two real vigilantes. I only realized this last night. So if anybody else wants to claim vigi, they should do so right now.

about the plan
I think we are all making a big deal out of nothing here. Any reasonable actions from this point lead us to 90+% town win. s0Lstice made a list of the 4 people most likely to be mafia (in his opinion), and proposed that we lynch all of them. That's pretty reasonable. But it kind of goes without saying that we will lynch the most scummy people. So the "plan" isn't really deviation from what we would do anyway. So I don't think it matters much whether we "agree" on the plan or not.

I don't think all this talk about the plan is very productive. Practically, I think it's hard enough to agree on one person to lynch, let alone four. And it's all subject to change anyway with information from night actions. So I suggest we just stop talking about the plan. Anyway, I'm just going through filters and making reads.

@alan
I highly doubt s0Lstice is mafia..
. Why the sudden change? It is an automatic loss for scum to fake claim vigilante, so they aren't going to do it. He went from not caring if the vigilante claimed, but then once alan claims he desperately wants to know if there is a second vigilante!? There isn't a townie reason for wanting to know if there is a second vigilante DURING THE DAY WHEN THERE WASN'T ANOTHER VIGILANTE SHOT THE PREVIOUS NIGHT. HUH!? It doesn't matter to a townie if there is a second vigilante until an extra person dies on a later night. It matters not one single bit during the day because a vig who hasn't shot can't prove himself by breadcrumbing his shot. Trying to get a second vigilante to claim during the day when he hadn't even shot yet is scummy. This is him trying to find a good night kill and eliminate a potential danger. He can manipulate a vote because he just needs a few people on his side to protect him, but if there is another vigilante out there, he needs to ingratiate himself to everyone and try his darndest to appear townie to everyone (which is very difficult) out of fear of the vigilante being one of the who find him suspicious.

Note: I had to break this post up into 2 parts because it was too long. Lol.
Crossfire99
Profile Joined March 2011
United States1529 Posts
June 18 2012 06:21 GMT
#438
Part 2

During day 2 he focuses like most people on suki and trackdoor. We know trackdoor is town and suki is more up in the air, but I feel less confident in her case then this one on sciberbia. The important thing to note about his play is how he begins night 2 + Show Spoiler +
On June 18 2012 11:59 sciberbia wrote:
@s0Lstice
I'll post more later. For now, what are your opinions on miltonkram?
. This is scummy. A more experienced mafia player mentioned in his thoughts on my last game when I played as mafia that a post like that where you just ask someone their thoughts on a person without providing any of your own thoughts is extremely scummy (especially when it happens at night). Solstice responds by saying that he might want to lynch milton + Show Spoiler +
On June 18 2012 12:36 s0Lstice wrote:
The thought ran through my head that if suki actually flipped town, I might want to lynch milton next. That was just a passing thought though. I'm on my phone right now, so I'll just post stuff that I got in short term memory.

His joke vote on you would be a weird thing for scum to do. A needless risk for early game. I don't remember the exact chronology but I think he was pretty early to push heavonearth. I'll look through his filter in depth tomorrow, but I've been getting a pretty good town vibe from him.
. This is what sciberbia is looking for because he can now post his list of reads + Show Spoiler +
On June 18 2012 12:44 sciberbia wrote:
@alan
I don't think mass roleclaim is a good idea. If we have a cop, we probably don't have a medic/jailkeepr, so I don't want to make cop come out before he judges it's the right time. Also, it's a semi-open setup, so it's pretty damn hard to figure out if anyone is lying.

Anyway, I've been kidna panicking a bit after seeing the trackd00r flip. I was looking foward to enjoying some post game talk, but now I'll just be happy if I don't feel like an idiot after this game.

Anyway, here are some reads on the 7 players left not named sciberbia:

short version:+ Show Spoiler +

alan - confirmed vigi
MJ/unforgiven - probably town
golden - probably town
s0Lstice - probably town
crossfire - probably town
miltonkram - idk
suki - kinda scummy


long version:

alan+ Show Spoiler +

confirmed vigi. Nobody else claimed the shot, and somebody obviously did it, so alan is for sure vigi.

golden+ Show Spoiler +

I'd be pretty shocked if golden were mafia. I honestly haven't even looked at his filter that much, but just from looking at roflwaffles's filter, I don't think golden can be mafia.

crossfire+ Show Spoiler +

Both confirmed scum attacked him, and tried to get him lynched. Also, the two confirmed scum are failry newbie (no offense) so I just don't see this as being a bus. Pretty definite he is town.

MJ/unforgiven+ Show Spoiler +

Nothing in these 2 filters is of much value, but as s0Lstice pointed out, both confirmed scum had no problem dumping suspicion on MJ. So I think it's pretty unlikely that he is scum.

s0Lstice+ Show Spoiler +

Hmm I guess it's possbile that s0Lstice just bussed the crap out of the other scum, and in hindsight it probably would have been a smart strategy for him to pull as mafia. And s0Lstice is a pretty smart player.

But he has played about as pro-town as you can get and his whole filter gives me a townie feel. I'm slightly paranoid that he could be mafia, but I really just don't see it.

miltonkram+ Show Spoiler +

I'm not saying that he looks really scummy, but I don't see why he can't be scum. The only major thing in his favor is his pretty good accusations of HeavOnEarth during D1. But I could maybe see him making that bus. I'll write more about him in another post.

suki+ Show Spoiler +

I feel it's pretty likely that suki is the last mafia. I've already written a lot on her case.

The only things really holding me back are the NK of austinmcc and her high activity D2. But I don't see how we can not lynch her just based on that. Maybe she just wanted to see if she could avoid one more lynch for the lulz? Idk..

So in response to s0Lstice's query, I'm totally down with lynching suki D3 (sorry suki).
everyone is town except for milton who is a question mark and suki is still the most suspicious but questionably so. He then follows this up with what can only be described as the softest possible attack against someone that ends still ends with we should lynch you even though you aren't scummy. (See spoiler + Show Spoiler +
On June 18 2012 13:51 sciberbia wrote:
The case against miltonkram
I think that suki is most likely to be the last scum. But if she flips town, the next person I'd want to lynch would be miltonkram. I don't think he's especially scummy, but he is not at the almost-definite-town status at which I place every player besides him and suki. I'm writing this case against him because nobody else seems to want to lynch him, and I'm worried he could survive to the end of the game as mafia.

First of all, I grant that his playstyle seems similar to his town from NMM XV, and that his filter gives off a townie vibe. But that's not conclusive evidence. Not the same level townie-evidence as for people like crossfire, golden, or MJ, who were mercilessly attacked by 2 confirmed scum on D1.

miltonkram's stances during D1+ Show Spoiler +

ordering is roughly chronological

trackdoor - neutral
suki - suspicious
crossfire - suspicious
alan - "fairly decent" case against him
roflwaffles - suspicious, but then backs off
MJ - #1 on scumdar
alan - very suspicious, but then backs off
HeavOnEarth - would vote, then votes

His suspicions on roflwaffles don't do anything to clear him in my mind. Nobody was really suspicious of roflwaffles at that point, and miltonkram backed off his suspicions reasonably quickly, so roflwaffles wasn't really in any danger based on miltonkram's actions.

Otherwise, he throws suspicion onto a bunch of people that are town (assuming milton is last mafia): suki, crossfire, alan (kinda), MJ. This isn't damning but isn't exactly comforting either.

Helping to Lynch HeavOnEarth
Miltonkram does contribute to the lynch of HeavOnEarth, by putting HeavOnEarth into his "top 3" after only me and s0Lstice have accused him, and then applying the third vote to HeavOnEarth.

This is certainly evidence in favor of miltonkram being town, but I could maybe see him pulling the bus as mafia. It would honestly be the smart move. And it wouldn't be the riskiest bus ever or anything. He originally listed HeavOnEarth as 1 of a list of 3, and it was after s0Lstice and I accused him already -- pretty safe townies to side with, but a bandwaggon of 3 doesn't assure a lynch. To me, a miltonkram bus of HeavOnEarth seems by far the most likely out of all possible busses.

Putting the third vote on HeavOnEarth would definitely be a ballsy move, but maybe he judged it was the best choice. And if he is mafia, it probably was.

Also here's some food for thought:
On June 17 2012 11:17 Miltonkram wrote:
Maybe this is too WIFOMy, but I feel like the safe play for scum would have been to have one player voting HeavOnEarth in order to gain some of the town cred in case he got lynched and one player voting someone else in order to keep a little momentum towards a possible mislynch. This isn't a strong point, so my opinions aren't the only things hinging on this.



about the NK (worth reading I think)+ Show Spoiler +

@s0Lstice
First of all, as a point of fact, austinmcc did voice suspicions of suki during D1, so your logic as to why suki might have killed austinmcc doesn't hold. This is the the second time I've gotten the feeling you don't thoroughly read my posts. Tsk Tsk. Maybe it's a sign I shouldn't write so much :p

Anyway, I've been thinking and thinking and thinking about the NK. It doesn't make a lot of sense no matter who ordered it. + Show Spoiler +
But actually now that I think about it, all of the sensible NK targets voiced suspicions of suki: me, s0Lstice, alan, miltonkram. So maybe suki would have found some reason to kill austinmcc.


Anyway, the best explanation I have come up with for the hit on austinmcc is that the last mafia thought that they could avoid getting lynched as long as there was no cop. And for whatever reason they thought austinmcc might be cop. Miltonkram is someone who can reasonably hope to avoid being lynched without a cop. But he was honestly a pretty good cop check last night. So maybe that's why he picked austinmcc over me/s0Lstice/alan. austinmcc does seem most likely to be cop out of those 4.

Also, miltonkram was gone almost the entire night. Him being scum would totally fit into my theory about scum not submitting their NK until the last minute.

Also look at this post from miltonkram. I found this to be really bad advice the second I read it. The point of a breadcrumb is for people not to notice it. Maybe he was fishing for the cop?

On June 16 2012 07:34 Miltonkram wrote:
EBWOP:Breadcrumb your actions right at the end of the night. That way scum don't have a chance to catch your breadcrumb before they send in their night actions.


Finally, this isn't exactly related to Miltonkram, but I think it's quite possible that the last mafia is roleblocker and RB'd austin last night. This would work out great for mafia if austin was vigi/cop/veteran. And it doesn't let us know the presence of a roleblocker. Maybe the mafia felt austin looked blue, and that's why he died?


IN SUMMARY
-- I am for lynching suki, and then miltonkram if she flips town
-- This isn't so much because miltonkram looks scummy, but that everyone else looks townie
-- I am obsessed with figuring out why austinmcc died, and I have a possible explanation

P.S. Every single time suki posts, I feel worse and worse about lynching her. But I think she is the only sensible choice.

P.P.S. @Miltonkram don't feel obliged to write a defense post to this. There's honestly not much to explain as most of your actions make good sense for a townie. Assuming we don't win D3, you'd have to convince me somebody else is more scummy than you for me not to push you D4. Maybe you could explain the breadcrumbing comment though.
) The most notable thing about this is how much he devotes to WIFOM analysis of the night kill. WE HAVE NO IDEA WHY AUSTIN WAS KILLED! Look at people's posts to determine scumminess. Also, why does he even post this + Show Spoiler +
Finally, this isn't exactly related to Miltonkram, but I think it's quite possible that the last mafia is roleblocker and RB'd austin last night. This would work out great for mafia if austin was vigi/cop/veteran. And it doesn't let us know the presence of a roleblocker. Maybe the mafia felt austin looked blue, and that's why he died?
? There is absolutely no reason to be speculating about this. Why speculate that austin was roleblocked and shot the same night? It doesn't matter if the last scum is a roleblocker or not. It doesn't help one bit. We are still only looking for ONE scum. He could be able to roleblock, track, and watch while still being able to kill and the only thing that matters is that he kills one person a night. The other things don't matter because even if we have a blue role left, it doesn't affect us until he claims, so it is best to just think that we don't have any left until someone claims.

I feel this is enough to show that sciberbia has been acting scummy.
Crossfire99
Profile Joined March 2011
United States1529 Posts
June 18 2012 06:25 GMT
#439
On June 18 2012 14:05 suki wrote:
Yeah. Welcome to bizarro bus world. You're here already you just don't know it yet

Both roflwaffle and heavonearth do not strike me as that sophisticated of players. Thus, I don't think that there was any plan for cooperation from the start between the two dead scum and our last remaining one.

The most likely scenario is that Scum #3 is a strong player, who decided that it would be in his best interest to bus both of his teammates early to gain extreme townie cred. This strategy worked well in XV with Xatalos taking the win, although he did make some slips early on that could have exposed him if people had looked into him more in depth. Of course, an early bus or even double bus is so risky for mafia that it seems really unlikely, but that is the situation we are in now.

It doesn't matter if you believe me now. When I flip, you can come back to these words and think carefully.

---

The most important lesson to be learned in mafia XV was that the pattern of night kills, and townie's impressions of night kills, was very important to discovering that Xatalos was the last mafia.

If player X was heavily tunneling player Y, and player X gets shot, does that mean player Y was scum? or maybe thats just what scum wants you to think. The town attitude in XV was that decyphering the meaning behind night kills was so WIFOMy that it wasn't worth doing. This lead to mafia being able to shoot the strongest player every night without fear of having the night shot analysed. At the very end, Xatalos shot the one person who was against him, thus securing a win because he knew the other two remaining players wouldn't analyse the shot and realize that the shot only made sense if he made it, not the #1 suspect at the time.

We saw austinmcc get shot N1. Someone will get shot N2. These shots have meaning, and just because it's WIFOMy doesn't mean its not worth discussing.

If the last remaining mafia was bold enough to start the game with a double bus, they most likely won't slip, and they might not even have any suspicious behaviour if they are good enough. The last remaining source of information is the pattern of NK's. Don't forget that.



Just letting people know that posts after these weren't here when I posted my case. Hmmm. I hadn't thought of night kills like that before, but I still think that with the possible skill of the last scum, they might be able to WIFOM argue the reasoning they want town to see even if it is harder. I will have to think about this more though.
Crossfire99
Profile Joined March 2011
United States1529 Posts
June 18 2012 20:23 GMT
#460
I'm glad that someone found my case to not be convincing (I was hoping it was someone I had a less solid read on than you solstice ). I only decided to look into sciberbia once i saw in his filter him trying to get a second vigi to claim and his question early this night. As I wrote the whole thing up, I realized that he is playing very townie and there is no way he is scum, but I decided to post my case anyway to get some reactions. Since I'm not not going to be around close to the deadline, I have to post this now which is unfortunate because I was hoping more people would have to respond to it, but oh well.

I also agree with you solstice about unforgiven. I specifically called him out earlier because MJ/he hadn't really contributed and I figured I could get a pretty good read on him, since I was his scum buddy in NMM XIII. So I'm all on board an unforgiven lynch tomorrow unless he pulls some crazy good analysis showing why someone is the last scum (I doubt it though, I'm almost 100% positive everyone else is town lol).

We'll see if I live through the night...
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