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DarthPunk
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Australia10857 Posts
July 20 2012 08:23 GMT
#52
/in If there are any spots left i would love to try this. i have been lurking the I Can't Believe it's not Themed MiniMafia thread. it seems pretty fun.
"If I wanted your opinion, I'd have told you what it was."
DarthPunk
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Australia10857 Posts
July 21 2012 03:13 GMT
#64
I am so excited for this. I have been reading all the threads linked in the OP and the mafiascum wiki in the hopes of becoming at least adequately knowledgeable before the game starts. I'd just like to note though that my time-zone is +14 hours from EDT. I hope that doesn't cause any difficulties. <3
"If I wanted your opinion, I'd have told you what it was."
DarthPunk
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Australia10857 Posts
July 21 2012 06:12 GMT
#67
Yeah I guess I would either have to stay up late before deadline. Or get up early and try to catch myself up on the goings on in the thread. I'm sure I'll figure something out. thanks for the advice though.
"If I wanted your opinion, I'd have told you what it was."
DarthPunk
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Australia10857 Posts
July 21 2012 06:37 GMT
#69
Nah, do it like me. Sleep through deadlines. Stay up for 30-36 hours and sleep for 12. Bawss status.


I totally would but I have to juggle university at the same time hehe.
"If I wanted your opinion, I'd have told you what it was."
DarthPunk
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Australia10857 Posts
July 21 2012 13:26 GMT
#76
Would 06:00 AEST (+10:00) work better for everyone?


That is 6am my time. But if that is good for everyone else I can work around it.
"If I wanted your opinion, I'd have told you what it was."
DarthPunk
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Australia10857 Posts
July 26 2012 04:11 GMT
#132
On July 26 2012 13:01 Shady Sands wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 26 2012 11:57 Golbat wrote:
if i'm not too late to sign up,

/in

This will be my first game =D


Does this complete the circle?


I think it does, I hope I don't suck at this as badly as I suck at SC2 lol. GLHF everybody!!

<3 <3 <3
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DarthPunk
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Australia10857 Posts
July 27 2012 00:25 GMT
#195
Hi Guys! Very excited to finally be playing. I slept in, so at the moment it is ~10:20 my time which is AEST if you ever want to check.
The deadlines are at 6am my time so I will probably be inactive for a few hours after each and before because I will be asleep.
Depending on the situation beforehand I can/will stay up for them but I really don't want that to be a regular thing.
OK now that is out of the way I am going to go back and actually read what has happened in the thread since I went to sleep LOL.

GLHF

<3<3<3.
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DarthPunk
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Australia10857 Posts
July 27 2012 01:17 GMT
#197
So I just read through the thread and the first post that really sprang out at me was this.


+ Show Spoiler +

On July 27 2012 07:43 Mordanis wrote:
Rather than sitting in a circle and deciding whom to lynch based on who sing "Kum ba yah, My Lord" the most off key (what kind of villainous scum would do such a thing?), I think its time to begin the scumhunt. Anyways, I apologize in advance if this seems somewhat rushed. I want to get the hunt going as early as possible, and I feel we've wasted the first hour and a half. So without further ado, here comes (hopefully) the first case of the game:

      Mordanis's's case on Keirathi
K (for some reason your name is really hard for me to type) began this game by virtually claiming Town RB. + Show Spoiler +
On July 27 2012 05:41 Keirathi wrote:
First things first:

If we have a town roleblocker, I think its best not to use your role early. You generally have as much chance of hurting a teamate as you do a scum. I'm not saying to NEVER use it, but think carefully and only use it if you are reasonably sure that you are blocking a scum.

Some policy discussion:

Lynch All Liars - I'm of the opinion that there are very, very few cases where lying as a townie is beneficial to town. With that said, there ARE cases where it is a realistic option, so I think blanket policy lynching is a fairly bad thing. Case-by-case basis.

Lynch All Lurkers - As much as lurking hurts town, I feel like at least in newbie games, lurking is almost guaranteed. I encourage everyone to try as hard as they can to avoid lurking sot hat we won't have to discuss this later. Lurking as a townie hurts town. Please don't do it. Again, case-by-case basis.

Are all roleblocks notified, or only people with power roles?
I've seen games where it works both ways, so best to clarify early.

. Now this may have been a case of extreme newbiness, which would be understandable, but Mr. K has played in at least 2 other games, so I believe he knew how this post would be interpreted. This brings up 3 possibilities:

1: Mr. K is VT, and he is trying to "take one for the team". He knows that the scum will see this post and read him blue, and he'll die tonight instead of a real blue. If this were to happen, he'd have helped town. If he gets lynched today, it'll be bad for town, but it will be deal-with-able.

2: Mr. K is actually townie RB. Perhaps he is trying to make his "claim" so obvious the scum will think option 1 is happening. Trying to hide out in the open. If he is killed during the night, we're in pretty bad shape. But if this option is the case and he's lynched today, we're in even worse shape, because he won't have used his power even once. That said, he implied that he wouldn't want to use it N1 anyway, so the options are virtually the same.

3: Mr. K is scum, and is trying to use this as means to get himself out of trouble. If he ever gets some heat brought to him, he just says "Dude, I basically claimed town RB, I don't think its a good idea to lynch me" The claim also puts pressure on any real blues to claim, and when everyone claims, a claim isn't worth anything. Basically, this post seems mildly non-protown, and it gives him a way to defend himself. Destabilizing town and giving yourself an extra cycle seems very scummy to me. If we lynch him today, we're off to a great start. And if this option is the case, scum aren't killing him tonight.

Of these three, option 2 seems by far the least probable. So that being said, I think that right now Keirathi is the best candidate for lynching. Still, its pretty early so I don't think it would be wise in any way to commit right now. Last thing: I have to go to work now, and I'll be back in probably 5 hours (rakin in the cash makin pizza), just FYI.



So after some policy discussion Mordanis makes his case against Keirathi. After some WIFOM we get to this -

If he is killed during the night, we're in pretty bad shape. But if this option is the case and he's lynched today, we're in even worse shape, because he won't have used his power even once.


So Keirathi is blue and we are in bad shape if he is NK/Lynched.
but then we get to this:

If we lynch him today, we're off to a great start.


And this:

So that being said, I think that right now Keirathi is the best candidate for lynching.


Twice stating that Keirath is is our best lynch at the moment which is a direct contradiction to his other premise.

he ends with this:
I don't think it would be wise in any way to commit right now


So after backflipping from his first premise (that it would be terribad for Keirathi to be NK and an even worse for us to mislynch him), and TWICE stating that Keirathi is our best Lynch. Mordanis decides that it isn't wise to commit right now after all.

This post was WIFOM, contradiction and confusion. At best it is saying something while saying nothing. At worst it is a deliberate attempt of scum to mislynch their blue read day 1.

Destabilizing town and giving yourself an extra cycle seems very scummy to me.


Yeah it does doesn't it.

FoS Mordanis
"If I wanted your opinion, I'd have told you what it was."
DarthPunk
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Australia10857 Posts
July 27 2012 01:42 GMT
#200
On July 27 2012 10:19 MrMedic wrote:
I agree with DarthPunk


Ok. Why do you agree?
From what I have seen and read through the recommended links and lurking the I can't believe it's not themed Mini Mafia thread and Newbie Mini Mafia XXI, Discussion is very important. It allows us to make reads and is always beneficial for town.

"If I wanted your opinion, I'd have told you what it was."
DarthPunk
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Australia10857 Posts
July 27 2012 01:47 GMT
#201
On July 27 2012 10:35 goodkarma wrote:
Hi all This is my first game so be nice to me lol.

I'm sorry I wasn't on earlier I had no idea this had actually started. I agree that lurking is bad, and to that end if there's a no-poster by the deadline that's where my first vote goes. I think it's been mentioned here before, but I would like to reaffirm the idea that no-lynch day one is not the best policy. Imho, doing such will just put us in a day one situation come day two. We really need to pressure those who aren't participating to post their thoughts, or face the consequences.

I plan to follow up this post with my thoughts on who feels scummy, just as Shady Sands is, once the last "lurker" that wasn't me on this list posts, Ange777. One thing that I would like to mention tho is that while inactivity can't be tolerated having a high post count shouldn't necessarily be encouraged. It's the quality of the posts that matters, and that fresh content is brought to the table. +1 posts are absolutely useless and do the town no good, so please don't post them (MrMedic.... cough cough).


Hi Goodkarma! <3<3<3

I think it's been mentioned here before, but I would like to reaffirm the idea that no-lynch day one is not the best policy.


Totally agree. If we no lynch we gain very little information and are in almost the same boat the next day minus 1 town.

I agree that lurking is bad, and to that end if there's a no-poster by the deadline that's where my first vote goes.


Yes lurking hurts town. That being said I will not get behind a vote on a lurker just because. Always lynch scum.
"If I wanted your opinion, I'd have told you what it was."
DarthPunk
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Australia10857 Posts
July 27 2012 03:23 GMT
#209
On July 27 2012 11:54 Shady Sands wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 27 2012 10:17 DarthPunk wrote:
So I just read through the thread and the first post that really sprang out at me was this.


+ Show Spoiler +

On July 27 2012 07:43 Mordanis wrote:
Rather than sitting in a circle and deciding whom to lynch based on who sing "Kum ba yah, My Lord" the most off key (what kind of villainous scum would do such a thing?), I think its time to begin the scumhunt. Anyways, I apologize in advance if this seems somewhat rushed. I want to get the hunt going as early as possible, and I feel we've wasted the first hour and a half. So without further ado, here comes (hopefully) the first case of the game:

      Mordanis's's case on Keirathi
K (for some reason your name is really hard for me to type) began this game by virtually claiming Town RB. + Show Spoiler +
On July 27 2012 05:41 Keirathi wrote:
First things first:

If we have a town roleblocker, I think its best not to use your role early. You generally have as much chance of hurting a teamate as you do a scum. I'm not saying to NEVER use it, but think carefully and only use it if you are reasonably sure that you are blocking a scum.

Some policy discussion:

Lynch All Liars - I'm of the opinion that there are very, very few cases where lying as a townie is beneficial to town. With that said, there ARE cases where it is a realistic option, so I think blanket policy lynching is a fairly bad thing. Case-by-case basis.

Lynch All Lurkers - As much as lurking hurts town, I feel like at least in newbie games, lurking is almost guaranteed. I encourage everyone to try as hard as they can to avoid lurking sot hat we won't have to discuss this later. Lurking as a townie hurts town. Please don't do it. Again, case-by-case basis.

Are all roleblocks notified, or only people with power roles?
I've seen games where it works both ways, so best to clarify early.

. Now this may have been a case of extreme newbiness, which would be understandable, but Mr. K has played in at least 2 other games, so I believe he knew how this post would be interpreted. This brings up 3 possibilities:

1: Mr. K is VT, and he is trying to "take one for the team". He knows that the scum will see this post and read him blue, and he'll die tonight instead of a real blue. If this were to happen, he'd have helped town. If he gets lynched today, it'll be bad for town, but it will be deal-with-able.

2: Mr. K is actually townie RB. Perhaps he is trying to make his "claim" so obvious the scum will think option 1 is happening. Trying to hide out in the open. If he is killed during the night, we're in pretty bad shape. But if this option is the case and he's lynched today, we're in even worse shape, because he won't have used his power even once. That said, he implied that he wouldn't want to use it N1 anyway, so the options are virtually the same.

3: Mr. K is scum, and is trying to use this as means to get himself out of trouble. If he ever gets some heat brought to him, he just says "Dude, I basically claimed town RB, I don't think its a good idea to lynch me" The claim also puts pressure on any real blues to claim, and when everyone claims, a claim isn't worth anything. Basically, this post seems mildly non-protown, and it gives him a way to defend himself. Destabilizing town and giving yourself an extra cycle seems very scummy to me. If we lynch him today, we're off to a great start. And if this option is the case, scum aren't killing him tonight.

Of these three, option 2 seems by far the least probable. So that being said, I think that right now Keirathi is the best candidate for lynching. Still, its pretty early so I don't think it would be wise in any way to commit right now. Last thing: I have to go to work now, and I'll be back in probably 5 hours (rakin in the cash makin pizza), just FYI.



So after some policy discussion Mordanis makes his case against Keirathi. After some WIFOM we get to this -

If he is killed during the night, we're in pretty bad shape. But if this option is the case and he's lynched today, we're in even worse shape, because he won't have used his power even once.


So Keirathi is blue and we are in bad shape if he is NK/Lynched.
but then we get to this:

If we lynch him today, we're off to a great start.


And this:

So that being said, I think that right now Keirathi is the best candidate for lynching.


Twice stating that Keirath is is our best lynch at the moment which is a direct contradiction to his other premise.

he ends with this:
I don't think it would be wise in any way to commit right now


So after backflipping from his first premise (that it would be terribad for Keirathi to be NK and an even worse for us to mislynch him), and TWICE stating that Keirathi is our best Lynch. Mordanis decides that it isn't wise to commit right now after all.

This post was WIFOM, contradiction and confusion. At best it is saying something while saying nothing. At worst it is a deliberate attempt of scum to mislynch their blue read day 1.

Destabilizing town and giving yourself an extra cycle seems very scummy to me.


Yeah it does doesn't it.

FoS Mordanis


I'm not sure we can use internal contradictions between Mordanis' three different points as evidence, given that they are illustrating three different "what-ifs". That being said, though, his logic as to why point #2 is the least likely and point #3 is the most likely doesn't hold water (or rather, doesn't exist), and each of his points are pretty farfetched.

I'd say he's our best option for a day 1 lynch at this point, but to be extra sure, we should wait until Ange777 has had a chance to post as well, and Mordanis gets back from making pizzas and has had a chance to defend himself.

Even if he flips green (which is likely, let's not get our hopes up here), his lynch will tell us a lot about who we should go after next, since people seem to have had strong reactions to both his proposal to go after Keir, his own lynching, and his arguments against policy lynching.


-He posts 3 different scenario's on Keir which contradicted one another (he states these as a 'case', whatever). 2 of the 3 have Keir as a blue and the third as scum. Yet he still sees Keir as the best lynch. The case is completely confused and without a logical narrative, based on a 'virtual claim' by Keirathi that I honestly don't think is there. There is no reason whatsoever that I can think of to make a case with internal contradictions. Am I missing something here?

-It is statistically likely that he will flip green. but you can say that about anyone. If you think he is town or not suspicious don't vote for him. Read filters, make a case etc.
"If I wanted your opinion, I'd have told you what it was."
DarthPunk
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Australia10857 Posts
July 27 2012 04:02 GMT
#217
@Mordanis. Thanks for your rebuttal I will try and read through it carefully. One thing though.

On July 27 2012 12:44 Mordanis wrote:
Keir is almost certainly green or red.


Seriously?
"If I wanted your opinion, I'd have told you what it was."
DarthPunk
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Australia10857 Posts
July 27 2012 04:34 GMT
#221
@Mordanis. Ugh. I just read through your latest posts a couple of times. Your whole argument is somewhat confusing and largely based on a premise that isn't really there. Lots of WIFOM, inconsistency, not saying anything etc. To be honest I had trouble following it at all. From what I can tell you are claiming that Keir is trying to mislead us into believing he is a Roleblocker, and that this somehow makes him either green or red. 0_o
Well he just Flatout denied it. So he isn't doing a very good job is he?

I have to leave this short as I have class in half an hour.

I should be back later. I look forward to reading through some more posts.

<3
"If I wanted your opinion, I'd have told you what it was."
DarthPunk
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Australia10857 Posts
July 27 2012 09:18 GMT
#247
OK I just got back from Uni+Dinner. Time for some reading.
I'll update with thoughts once I get through the thread and some filters.
"If I wanted your opinion, I'd have told you what it was."
DarthPunk
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Australia10857 Posts
July 27 2012 10:49 GMT
#262
On July 27 2012 19:07 Mordanis wrote:
I just want to point out that if internal contradiction is grounds for lynching, I think pretty much everyone's dead D1. And I really do want to know why Alan is suspicious of me, because I see one mistake (over-pursuing my case on Keir), and I'd argue that this post is equally a mistake. So I wait patiently.


Really? You have no idea why someone may be suspicious of you?

The entire Keirathi case was terrible. It remains terrible. I reread mordanis' filter and looking back I don't even think he thought his case had any substance.

Right from the get go you doubt yourself and the claim against Keirathi.
I think that right now Keirathi is the best candidate for lynching. Still, its pretty early so I don't think it would be wise in any way to commit right now..


Keir is almost certainly green or red.


I have no idea which is more likely, but I think he is more likely scum than anyone else at this moment.


Read my second post about his "claim" + Show Spoiler [spoilered for you convenience] +, and find for me one place where I explicitly say that we should lynch Keir.


So for right now at least: ##Vote: Golbat


Although you push your read you never commit yourself to it. As soon as you start taking heat from people you switch on to one of your accusers with no resolution to your kerathi case. You just walk away from it altogether and start throwing accusations at someone else.

"If I wanted your opinion, I'd have told you what it was."
DarthPunk
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Australia10857 Posts
July 27 2012 11:03 GMT
#263
Both Zorkmid's and aRyuujin's filters are pretty sparse. Hopefully they pick up their posting soon. Ange777 had a similar looking filter until a couple of hours ago.
"If I wanted your opinion, I'd have told you what it was."
DarthPunk
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Australia10857 Posts
July 28 2012 01:46 GMT
#308
Good morning Everyone.

First up some thoughts.

Golbat

I spent the majority of last night reading their filters trying to make sense of it. And it was seriously a mess. From the OMGUS accusations onward. Golbat flip-flops like it is going out of style. And Mordanis still uses a large amount of WIFOM to justify his arguments which just make it more difficult to understand what he is actually saying.
One of mordanis' key arguments (claimed scumslip) against golbat was this
On July 27 2012 11:31 Golbat wrote:I think that lynching a lurker day one is only a good idea if we have no reads on people who might be scum. As far as that goes for me, I already have an idea of who might be scum, so I won't get behind lynching a lurker today.
While it is true that this may be used to hop on whatever bandwagon he wants without fear of reprisal. in the context of the conversation and a simple search through his filter says otherwise.
On July 27 2012 09:15 Golbat wrote:
As far as the game goes, Mordanis' post about Keir's post where he was "virtually claiming town RB" seems to be a pretty scummy thing to do. It didn't seem to me to be a secret claim of any sort, just a rules clarification. Even if it was a super-secret claim that he could use later, I wouldn't believe him if that was the only evidence he had.

From what I've read elsewhere, that type of posting is classic scum behavior. Look like you're helping the town and trying to hunt scum, when in reality you're just blowing a townie's mistakes clear out of proportion to sow confusion and doubt.

Not everyone has posted, so I don't yet want to commit to a vote, but I've got my eye on you Mordanis.


Go read the thread. He was THE FIRST to cast suspicion onto Mord. Mordanis case is built upon the fact that he had insurance to jump on any bandwagon he wanted without fear of reprisal and then jumps on a bandwagon on him. Golbat almost immediately casts suspicion onto Mordanis, then states he may already have an idea of who may be scum. Yep, it seems like he was just backing up his previous claim of mordanis' scumminess.

Mordanis

On July 28 2012 02:40 Mordanis wrote:
+ Show Spoiler [Joking at Hosts] +
On July 27 2012 22:23 marvellosity wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 27 2012 22:11 Zorkmid wrote:

Is the deadline today at 17:00 EDT?



No, 1 day 7.5 hours roughly

Edited to use ALL THE BLUE


On July 27 2012 22:24 ghost_403 wrote:
There's still over 24 hours until the voting deadline.

OP says the deadline is at 22:00 GMT (+00:00) but I've used 21:00 GMT (+00:00) a few times, and I think that would work better for me. I'm going to change the deadline to 21:00 GMT (+00:00), unless you guys have any objections (if you do, PM them to me).

I can see the next History Channel TV hit: Host Wars! Or maybe Semi-Truck-Driving-Host Wars! just to give it some originality :D


Show nested quote +
On July 27 2012 18:44 Golbat wrote:
I can understand why you would read my actions so far in the game as scum, but they're honestly just the actions of a bad player who thought he had a dead on scum read and was most likely very, very wrong. From now on i'll be more careful with who I vote for, because while I DID indeed redact my vote, I really really dislike when that happens on the whole. I got a little carried away and luckily it happened this early on and not in a situation where I might have cause a loss for town.

Basically, I'm NOT scum, and anything scummy I have said or done so far can be explained by my inexperience.

After reading Prom's post (especially the bit regarding self-imposed posting limits), I feel like it's time for me to take a break, especially after spewing so much bullshit and bad play all over the thread. See you in about 6-12 hours.

Show nested quote +
On July 27 2012 18:51 Golbat wrote:
On July 27 2012 18:42 alan133 wrote:
I have read and re-read the filters but couldn't find anything other than Mordanis' "meh" case on Kei and subsequent cases against Mordanis for that.

I was kinda thrown off when Golbat decides to unvote Mordanis because he started off having high confidence that he is scum. His "I am a newbie post" also contributes to my suspicions on him. I quickly dismissed them because I still have my FOS on Mordanis and he did a case on Golbat too.

Now that Ange777 has mentioned it, I would like to ask Golbat, what makes you think that Mordanis is not scum anymore? To me, his only "townie points" is that he is the first player who built a case, but that's about it. Is there some "obvious" reason that I missed? Every time I re-read Mordanis's posts I am more convinced that he is scum.


The reason I backed off of Mord is because I felt like I may have been pushing too strongly against him based on his first bad read. I didn't want to appear to be scum myself, so I backed off for the moment. I still have a sneaking suspicion about him that he may be mafia, but I didn't want to lynch myself by pushing too hard on a bad read.

I feel like i've been talking in circles around mord, "He's scum, no he's town, no he might be scum, no he's probably town", so I feel like I need to take a definite stance on the matter, and that is

##FoS Mordanis

It's not the flat-out vote that it was before, but I still don't trust you. I've heard several times to trust my reads, and so this is my position. We'll see what happens between now and lynch time.

+ Show Spoiler +
but for real now, I need to step away from the thread for a few hours

Basically, in the space of 7 minutes, Golbat made excuses for his play, gives himself an excuse to lurk for over a quarter of the day cycle, flip-flops completely from thinking he was "very very wrong" about me to ostensibly implying that I'm the best target for a lynch. But if you add these posts to what he posted earlier, you see that Golbat hasn't really contributed anything. He talked policy, and then prepared to jump on a bandwagon. On seeing that it was incredibly early to jump on the bandwagon, he then jumps to save his townie cred. This is classic scum-play, posting a decent amount of stuff that people agree with, without contributing and having excuses to stall discussion about him. On the other hand, the whole thing where he flips about me about 29.4 times could be construed as indicative of terrified newbie play. I don't really buy this because there is really no contribution from him. All he's done is voiced opinions that others have already mentioned. There is no analysis, save one post where he points out that I over committed to talking about Keir. He even says that he's not the first to come to this conclusion. + Show Spoiler +
On July 27 2012 13:06 Golbat wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 27 2012 12:53 Mordanis wrote:
The reason I am talking about blues is because Keir seems to be trying to make people who are looking for blues beeline to him, but his play doesn't resonate with that of a true blue. If he's green, then he's trying to secretly manipulate the scum (trying to secretly "dig a yard under to make your enemy hoist to his own petard" is very dangerous), potentially harming town as a whole. The alternative is that he's red and trying to force the real blues to claim, and possibly being able to get out of a lynch by claiming Town RB. I have no idea which is more likely, but I think he is more likely scum than anyone else at this moment. That said, I need to eat and then read through more carefully before I can go any further.


You are REALLY fixated on asserting that Keir is trying to make others think he is. It seems to be that a lot of us disagree with you. For the life of me I can't understand why you're trying to get him lynched for attempting to teach whoever the Town RB is (if there even is one) how to play the role. It's an important thing to know, and might have prevented the Town RB from accidentally blocking the cop from using his power on one of the most important night phases of the game.

This IS a newbie mafia after all, would you be doing the same thing if he told the vigilante not to shoot someone on night one?

No contribution to scumhunting is probably the best indicator of scumminess, and combined with what I believe are some "slips" (see my earlier case), I think he is probably the best scum-read.


Mordanis goes from pushing golbats case and 'scumslip' heavily, to voting shady in the space of a post. We would assume that this sudden change of heart would come with some clear and strong arguements right?

Wrong

On July 28 2012 06:36 Mordanis wrote:
I'm starting to get a really bad feeling about Shady. Remember his post that said that no game in 20 lynched scum D1? + Show Spoiler +
On July 27 2012 09:02 Shady Sands wrote:
So pretty much, I looked through about 20 mafia games and found not a single night one lynch resulting in a red kill. This suggests one thing:

Day 1 scumhunting actually has a lower success rate than a random day 1 lynch. If the lynches had been truly random, then maybe 20-30% of the games should have had day 1 lynches turn up red, but none of them did.



Here are the D1 lynches from several games:
NMM XXI: blue
NMM XX: red
NMM XIX: blue
NMM XVIII: green
NMM XVII: red
NMM XVI: blue
(I couldn't find XV or XIV, so I chose to go to the SNMMs)
SNMM XI: red
SNMM X: green
SNMM IX: green
So we have 3 blues lynched, 3 VT lynched, and 3 scum lynched. So it would appear that in Newbie mini mafia games, there is about a 1/3 chance of lynching scum D1. With 3/13 chance a random lynch would hit scum (~24%), and historically a 1/3 chance of hitting scum through hunting, the choice is clear. This is for future reference really, as we're already hunting. But this brings up the fact that Shady almost certainly lied. Now there is sometimes a reason for a townie to lie. If it opens up an avenue for them to discover scum, or take one for the team, or accomplishes another goal it can be a boon to lie to the town. On the other hand, by suggesting that scum hunting D1 is useless, Shady is 1) discouraging discussion (why discuss when it only lowers the probability of hitting scum?), 2) stalling the game (mafia wants to stall as long as possible. they use their kp regardless of where our lynch ends up), and 3) trying to influence newbies' thinking (if analysis/scum hunt isn't the main priority, then mafia get off free for mistakes while being able to penalize some other player. This goes with stalling). In short, Shady lied in a pretty baldfaced manner, and the lie only serves the interest of mafia. Also, after reading through Obvious's filter last game, I saw that his behavior was almost identical to Golbat's. Golbat, you need to contribute, because if you don't, you're going to be looking even scummier. But I have seen almost identical play from a townie (Obvious was lynched D1 though), so for now I am going to switch my vote.
##Unvote
##Vote: Shady_Sands

Now this is the post where he flips from golbat onto shady. The first half of his post is meaningless and doesn't actually provide any information or a good reason to flip from someone he had been pursuing whom he believed had scumslipped. Shady could have read Mafia games elsewhere, not just TL. So the whole lie scenario is a stretch and to me doesn't mean anything. He then goes on to speculate on a reason town would lie. This is also meaningless and fails to add anything to the Shady case. the only part of Mordanis' post which gives any clue whatsoever as to why he flipped from his scum read to shady.
On July 28 2012 06:36 Mordanis wrote:
Also, after reading through Obvious's filter last game, I saw that his behavior was almost identical to Golbat's. Golbat, you need to contribute, because if you don't, you're going to be looking even scummier. But I have seen almost identical play from a townie (Obvious was lynched D1 though), so for now I am going to switch my vote.

He meta reads. But not golbats previous game. Obvious.660's.
No mention of the strong arguments brought forward about shady by prom and subsequently ange777, no analysis of shady that actually adds anything.

Next post after voting shady. what does he decide to do he makes another list in a similar vein as above
On July 28 2012 07:26 Mordanis wrote:
OK, if you want to look at other games too,

Bureaucracy: blue
DBZ: red
I can't believe its...: green
TLM LVI: green
SSB 64: ???
Movie star: green
Bastard: No clue
Igrok's: green
TLM LV: green
MTG 1: green
Wheel of fortune: None
TLM LIII: VE blue
C9++: red

So if you look at full games (30ish players), the rate of hitting scum is really bad. As it should be, since 6 people working together are pretty strong when no one knows anything else. In the more exposed mini set ups though, there seems to be much more incidence of hitting red D1. So I have to retract my statement about the bald-faced lie, it is possible to have looked up several large games and seen no scum hit with D1 lynch. I still do stand by my statement that the post I quoted earlier is misleading at best (for mini games) and works against town. My apologies everyone for not researching fully prior to this. So allow me to reread through to see things with fresh eyes.


He talks a big game. Lied and drew heat on himself so we could start scumhunting. I don't buy it. He is not following through. He is not contributing anything of substance. He is flipflopping whilst accusing others of the same. He is not doing the scumhunting he so desperately wanted to start.
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DarthPunk
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Australia10857 Posts
July 28 2012 02:01 GMT
#309
@goodkarma

I can somewhat understand what you are saying in regards to lurkers, the premise being that they don;t contribute anything to the discussion etc. That being said i read through your filter last night and this morning and every single post since the game started has been talking about lynching lurkers. In fact the only contribution you have made to an ongoing discussion is this.

On July 27 2012 15:12 goodkarma wrote:
I'm hesitant to join the Mordanis lynch bandwagon.

Mordanis's arguements were definitely incredibly flimsy, but I find it hard to believe that a mafia would stick his neck out that far when it seems many successful mafia are content to stick their heads in the sand. His opening statement indicates he desires to start a hunt for who's mafia:

Show nested quote +
On July 27 2012 07:43 Mordanis wrote:
Rather than sitting in a circle and deciding whom to lynch based on who sing "Kum ba yah, My Lord" the most off key (what kind of villainous scum would do such a thing?), I think its time to begin the scumhunt. Anyways, I apologize in advance if this seems somewhat rushed. I want to get the hunt going as early as possible, and I feel we've wasted the first hour and a half. So without further ado, here comes (hopefully) the first case of the game:


It's also worth noting he has not yet explicitly voted for who he accused. I don't feel we can find that guy with one flimsy lynch arguement and assume he's guilty, especially when it's the first arguement of the game. I don't see him having any investment in who's accused if he's really mafia, especially when most day one lynchings tend to hit town.

Yes lurking hurts town, as does only posting about lurkers and not discussing anything else.
"If I wanted your opinion, I'd have told you what it was."
DarthPunk
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Australia10857 Posts
July 28 2012 10:45 GMT
#324
@Mordanis

Shady said that he looked through 20 games without seeing any mafia lynched D1. I referenced 20 games with 5 scum lynched D1.


This is Irrelevant. Claiming it is a lie is a stretch and nothing you stated does anything to further the case against Shady Sands nor do I believe it to be a legitimate reason to flip from golbat (who to you has scumslipped etc. and whom you had been pushing on for the majority of your previous posts) to Shady Sands.

Darth: Where did I lie? I want one expression that is a bald-faced lie.


You have admitted to pursuing a case against keirathi that you didn't believe was true.

You're right, I didn't really believe the case, but there isn't any real pressure generated by "Hey i dont believe wat im sayin, but i think X is scum" The reason I left the case on Keir is because there wasn't really a case.


So you still haven't given a legitimate reason to dropping your case on golbat, had nothing to add to the sandy shades case you jumped onto. and then, when questioned:
To keep myself honest, I'll go ahead and ## unvote.


How many times did you claim Golbat to be flip flopping his vote around?

I want to point out that I think several people are going about scum-hunting the wrong way. Play that hurts town but benefits scum is indicative of scumminess. Illogical posting is not necessarily scummy though.


This is a tautology. Illogical posting does hurt town. It obscures the crux of you arguement and makes it more difficult to read through and analyze your positions.

The point is I don't believe you to be guilty of illogical arguments and nothing more. The 1st case you pursued you didn't believe. The second case you pursue, and the only one in which you post anything of substance, is dropped out of nowhere with no real explanation.The third case you move onto because you meta read golbat with obvious' previous play then drop the case against him. You jump on the shady sands case yet you add nothing to the case against that person and when questioned drop that vote immediately. Then move back to Golbat.

You are also guilty of basing entire arguments on WIFOM, wishy-washy-ness, appearing to but not actually contributing to cases, saying things whilst saying nothing etc.

I am going to a party and should be back before Deadline which i may stay up for 7am my time. However in case something goes wrong, i am putting my vote with mordanis.

##Vote: Mordanis
"If I wanted your opinion, I'd have told you what it was."
DarthPunk
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Australia10857 Posts
July 28 2012 19:35 GMT
#369
Hi guys I got back from my party at 4am and it is currently 5:30 a.m. my time.I am incredibly tired. I have spent the last hour reading through the thread but progress has been slow.

So I guess I will post my thoughts etc.

on mordanis
I am not satisfied with your responses to my case against you. I dont think you have adequately explained anything and have just repeated all the reasons why you should be considered town rather than the particular issues stated. You are still my strongest scum read, therefore I think you are the best lynch candidate.

@ange777 on Goodkarma.
I mean I posted it before, all Goodkarma's posts are discussions on lurkers and policy lynch's. Seemed to be a bit overly defensive when I pointed this out. The problem with goodkarma is that there is almost nothing to go on with him, as there is no analysis in his posts.

on Shady Sands.

The strongest argument on shady was posted by prom and followed up by ange. It seems like he has been pushing to potentially set up a mis-lynch and use this as reason to lynch another. As I said previously the whole lying/listing previous mafia games/ statistics situation to me didn't seem like a particularly strong argument or evidence and didn't seem to add anything to the case on Shady Sands.

With that being said at the moment we are headed towards a no lynch which I am certainly not in favour of. I am willing to alter my vote to ensure this does not happen. Hopefully this gets resolved shortly as I would love to get some sleep.
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