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Stutters695
Profile Joined July 2012
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August 13 2012 04:52 GMT
#49
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Stutters695
Profile Joined July 2012
2610 Posts
August 15 2012 00:13 GMT
#92
I'm not going to quote the entire post, but I'd strongly recommend the town to read Hapahauli's post following XXIII(http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=355874&currentpage=58#1160). Was watching that game while I was waiting for this to start and based off of his scumhunting track record it contains some good advice. Since it's probable we will mislynch we need to get as much out of Day 1 as possible.
Stutters695
Profile Joined July 2012
2610 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-15 01:27:25
August 15 2012 01:26 GMT
#112
EBWOP: I didn't see this in the OP. Is this plurality or majority voting?
Stutters695
Profile Joined July 2012
2610 Posts
August 15 2012 01:29 GMT
#115
EBWOP2: Sorry I don't know how I got to the edit page in the first place. Here is a repost of what I said before it got edited:




[color=green]I didn't see this in the OP. Is this plurality or majority voting?[/color]

My first forum game so no previous threads to link, sorry.

In regards to an SK:
I agree with discussing the SK being a waste of time. It will become obvious very quickly if there is an SK when multiple people are dying nightly.



On August 15 2012 09:53 Shady Sands wrote:
I don't like that post by Solarsail, it smells funny.


Everyone please try to avoid posting like this. If you don't explain why it's "funny" there can't be discussion and it clutters up the thread.
Stutters695
Profile Joined July 2012
2610 Posts
August 15 2012 07:03 GMT
#200
Good work guys. I go to play league for a couple hours and come back to this.

Regarding Solarsail:
I didn't see that post as a soft accusation of me. My reasoning for thinking this is that it was the second post of the game. Likewise to a few other people, the thought hadn't occurred to me until Shady brought it up. From a scum perspective he has absolutely nothing to gain by accusing me of being scum that early. Taking this as anything more than a null read currently is a mistake IMO.

What's more telling currently is his responses to what should have been a joke of pressure that early in Day 1. His sarcastic arguing and OMGUS vote leave me a lot more suspicious.

@Solarsail You need to stop trolling and try and get some info or you're just asking to be lynched, regardless of wether or not you're town.

@Shady Sands In your first post you say that of policy that we should "stop OGMUS wars" (emphasis mine, kept the whole quote for context). Yet other than pre-game banter your only posts until halfway through the 2nd page of your filter are all about confrontations to Solarsail/defending your accusation of a very, very weak case.


On August 15 2012 09:42 Shady Sands wrote:
+ Show Spoiler [Thoughts on XXIII] +
I'm still really mad at Hapa for essentially winning on luck in XXIII. Had GK actually spoken up in the game, Hapa wouldn't have had the GK lynch to work off of and we scum could have safely NK'd him without worrying about a medic save.


Howdy town. Let's kick some scum ass. A few policy notes:

  • Lynch all lurkers. That's how town caught scum in XXIII. But don't overly rely on this, scum can fake D1 activity pretty well.
  • Observe, observe, and observe. If someone acts strangely, lynch them. This includes checking everyone's metas from previous games.
    • All players here--please list all the games you have played previously, as well as which roles you played, along with filters for your posts. Here are my links:
      My XXIII Filter, where I was scum
      My XXII Filter, where I was Mason with Keirathi

  • If someone isn't forthcoming with information ("I have a read but I'm not going to share it because of blah") lynch them.
  • If someone isn't actively pushing new cases with their posts, press them on it.
  • Stop OMGUS wars. They're not productive. If two people are OMGUSing each other, tell them to stop, don't just sit there and let them keep yelling at each other. The only ones who win off mass OMGUSing are scum.

That's all for now, good luck everyone.


So far you've accused Solarsail for soft-accusing me and focused on administrative stuff (getting filters, posting who hasn't posted yet) for a combined 14 posts. I understand that you're trying to get conversation started which is great, but I noticed you missed or ignored Z-BosoN's post directed towards you about Meta-Analysis. He's asked this twice and you've ignored him both times.

@Shady Sands

Show nested quote +
Lynch all lurkers. That's how town caught scum in XXIII. But don't overly rely on this, scum can fake D1 activity pretty well.
Observe, observe, and observe. If someone acts strangely, lynch them. This includes checking everyone's metas from previous games.
All players here--please list all the games you have played previously, as well as which roles you played, along with filters for your posts. Here are my links:
My XXIII Filter, where I was scum
My XXII Filter, where I was Mason with Keirathi


Regarding meta. As mentioned in earlier mafias, metas are good to keep in mind, but they are weak to base your arguments on. What we want to look at people's earlier games are their reasoning, their ferocity in detecting and attacking suspicious behavior, and their general ability to detect flaws in arguments. Even with equal roles, one player will most likely not post in the same manner or the same tone as in past games.






My question to you is:
Why do you feel that getting filters is so necssary?

The best way to catch scum is still to hunt in tthe thread with meta-analysis only serving as the final nail in the coffin. The repeated posts on this makes me feel like there is the possibility that you're using this to be active without really hunting (1 weak accusation and 1 glaringly obvious accusation so far). Your overall level of activity makes me believe this isn't the case but I want to hear your explination.
Stutters695
Profile Joined July 2012
2610 Posts
August 16 2012 19:52 GMT
#360
My current vote is going to Archrun. I am suspicious of Thrawn but reading Mkfuba and GK's posts about him I'd like to see a little more out of him before coming to a conclusion on him.

##Vote Archrun

Here's why I think Archrun is our best lynch (http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=359489&user=155910 - Full Filter for easy reference):

On August 15 2012 10:10 Archrun wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 15 2012 09:42 Shady Sands wrote:
+ Show Spoiler [Thoughts on XXIII] +
I'm still really mad at Hapa for essentially winning on luck in XXIII. Had GK actually spoken up in the game, Hapa wouldn't have had the GK lynch to work off of and we scum could have safely NK'd him without worrying about a medic save.


Howdy town. Let's kick some scum ass. A few policy notes:

  • Lynch all lurkers. That's how town caught scum in XXIII. But don't overly rely on this, scum can fake D1 activity pretty well.
  • Observe, observe, and observe. If someone acts strangely, lynch them. This includes checking everyone's metas from previous games.
    • All players here--please list all the games you have played previously, as well as which roles you played, along with filters for your posts. Here are my links:
      My XXIII Filter, where I was scum
      My XXII Filter, where I was Mason with Keirathi

  • If someone isn't forthcoming with information ("I have a read but I'm not going to share it because of blah") lynch them.
  • If someone isn't actively pushing new cases with their posts, press them on it.
  • Stop OMGUS wars. They're not productive. If two people are OMGUSing each other, tell them to stop, don't just sit there and let them keep yelling at each other. The only ones who win off mass OMGUSing are scum.

That's all for now, good luck everyone.


This is my first time playing, but I did read XXIII in preparation for this game and the policy seemed effective, because even if the scum is being active everyone has a a good sample of posts to analyze and hopefully make more accurate reads. As a Townee, I promote any policy that helps us catch scum, but we must back accusation up with evidence(which this policy should provided) and reason.


So far he has a total of six posts in this game. I don't find that particularly suspicious but what I do find suspicious is that he looks active throughout without actually looking for scum.

In his first post he says the policy from XXIII and that as a VT he promotes "any policy that helps us catch scum." Although you can't expect scumhunting this early, I wanted to point out his noncommittal attitude.

On August 15 2012 10:20 Archrun wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 15 2012 10:11 thrawn2112 wrote:
On August 15 2012 09:59 Shady Sands wrote:
On August 15 2012 09:55 thrawn2112 wrote:
Does anyone have experience playing in a game where a serial killer was a possible role? If there did end up being a serial killer, how big a role did they play and how high would you rate the importance and achieveability of sniffing them out early? In other words, would it be a worthwhile use of the town's time and investigation to try to figure out who, if anyone, is the serial killer? I can see how it would be very important to find out who is SK early on, but I also can see how it might be way more difficult than figuring out who is mafia, and thus not a good use of time. One distinction between the serial killer and the mafia is that the mafia are in communication and will be working together while the serial killer is separated from both town and mafia. Any player who is suspected to be not of town affiliation could either be mafia or SK, so while in either case they are a good target for lynching, having knowledge of their actual role would be way more valuable than just an uninformed hit on a supposed non-town player.

If there isn't an SK, then this line of discussion is a complete waste of time and we would be doing the mafia's job for them, which is why I asked if anyone has experience in games with an SK so that we all can get a better idea of what the risk/reward anaylsis should be on determining whether or not and when to focus on a potential SK.

Concerning shady sand's post, this is my first game so I have no previous history to reference.


Why are you so worried about the SK? SK is a bigger threat to scum than to town.


I am not really worried, but am trying to learn from other people's experiences if there is any reason to worry. I thought I was pretty clear that I was undecided on the importance of SK, and that if SK is unimportant in D1 it's a complete waste of time to worry about it. My current opinion is that it is something to worry about, but not on D1. Therefore I'm not going to continue posting about it until something happens along the lines of way too many unexplained town deaths.


To follow that point up, I feel like the scum threat is a lot stronger than SK because they are organized and know who to attack. A SK in my eyes is like a scum with only one person in it that can attack other scums independently. So if any exist in this game they shouldn't become an issue until later in the game.

Now he has two more posts for that day. The first one is agreeing with both Shady and thrawn's statements that a SK is a non-issue at this point for the town. This has already been agreed upon and he didn't contribute anything new with his post except that a team of 3 is more dangerous than a 1 man team. His only other post before disappearing for 24 hours is soft defending Thrawn from Shady.

Fast forward 26 hours and we get to the point that really stood out to me and caused me to look into him more closely. First his case on Solar and Jhuyt:
On August 16 2012 13:58 Archrun wrote:
Sorry for being lurky, not intend just became last minute busy. As far as reads go I am going through the thread at will give my thoughts on the case against YH, thrawn, and GK as soon as I can, but right now I want to make a ##FoS: Jhuyt and Solar

Case:
Jhuyt puts:
Show nested quote +
On Solar: This is just how he is in general from what I've seen on TL, so I don't have anything there.

then Solar puts:
Show nested quote +
Secondly, the continued defence of me by Thrawn has no basis. I was clearly being anti-town. Some evidence:

"I am still of the opinion that solar's posts are somewhat likely to be emotional overreactions rather than scummy."

"Shady, can you explain your reasoning for initially jumping all over solar?"

"Most of the discussion right now is about solarsail. I don't think there's anything wrong with this because so far his posts haven't seemed very useful but we have still yet to hear from several players. He could easily be town and just reacting to everyone immediately jumping on his case as soon as the game starts."

"Suspicion of a soft accusation is hardly good evidence that he should be lynched especially when there has been so little discussion so far so I am not sold on your case against him."

There is little reason to defend me so much unless your motivation is to defend someone he knows to be town player for deflection reasons.


May main concern is two-fold:
1) Jhuyt claims Solar is just an emotional by his previous TL post history, which later Solar claims to be a deliberate act. Futhermore, skimming through Solar TL post history it doesn't seem that emotionally based. In fact, it is closer to his current professionalism. I believe Jhuyt defense of him is a blatant lie.
2) Solar questions why Thrawn is defending him, but not Jhuyt. Other people defend Solar has a bad townies, and to shape up his posting, while Jhuyt explained Solar behavior (falsely) as that is the type of person solar is.

This leads me wonder why would Solar question Thrawn's motives and not Jhuyt?

This plays out four ways:

If Jhuyt is townie and Solar is townie then Solar should of suspected his motives like he did with thrawn or both of them are mason and there is no need to question each others motives. I believe them being Masons is possible.

If Jhuyt is townie and Solar is scum then why would jhuyt lie about Solar's posting? Futhermore, why wouldn't Solar call Jhuyt out like he did with Thrawn? The only why I can see is to put focus on one person. This seems dishonest. nor does it allievate Jhuyt roll. under those ground I reject this possibility.

If Jhuyt is scum and Solar is scum then either a bus play could happen(which didn't) or they could protect each other. They could directly protect each other by offering counter arguments against both of them, (which only Jhuyt did in that one line lie) or indirectly by not bringing attention to each other(which would be a play that Solar made. I believe them both being scum is possible.

Finally, if Jhuyt is scum and Solar is townie then by lying Jhuyt post (which occured before Solar) puts focus on Shady and potentially has some a townie on his side. Solar likewise either became a townie by his side(doubtful, because he didn't defend him against Shady's accusation) or Solar would of question his motive like he did with thrawn. I reject this possibility as stated above.

This leads me to believe Jhuyt and Solar are Scum or Masons.

Thoughts? Concerns? Did I miss something? I don't think Solar missed Jhuyt post because he was corresponding with Shady the entire page and part way through there correspondences Shady replied to Jhuyt. I want to emphasis I haven't look at the evidence agaisnt Thrawn thoroughly so I have no argument on him as scum or town at the moment.


This appears to be his largest contribution to the thread. He has a premise and uses some facts to back it up. Most of the post is WIFOM and doesn't really contribute anything. The part I want to emphasize is the first part of his two-fold concern.

"May main concern is two-fold:
1) Jhuyt claims Solar is just an emotional by his previous TL post history, which later Solar claims to be a deliberate act. Futhermore, skimming through Solar TL post history it doesn't seem that emotionally based. In fact, it is closer to his current professionalism. I believe Jhuyt defense of him is a blatant lie.
2) Solar questions why Thrawn is defending him, but not Jhuyt. Other people defend Solar has a bad townies, and to shape up his posting, while Jhuyt explained Solar behavior (falsely) as that is the type of person solar is."

Now fast forward six hours to his next post:
On August 16 2012 19:32 Archrun wrote:
Alright after looking into Solar claim about a history with him and Jhuyt I can believe that Jhuyt was under the impression Solar could be emotionally. Therefore, one of my premise is incorrect and I must remove my claim towards them.
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I look into evidence about Thrawn and there was 3 main points against him: He was fluff, motive concerns by Solar and Z-Boson questioning of him. I came to the conclusion that he has shown some dodgy behavior.

The beginning of the thread there was a lot of posts claiming Thrawn to being very fluffy, but the beginning was very chaotic and Thrawn was the only one. His posted definitely, picked up later.

When Solar questioned Thrawn motive for defending his anti-town behavior Thrawn claims he changed Thrawn from Scummy to town who doesn't know the tone of the game.
Show nested quote +
Just to confirm what I'm thinking, do we all trust solarsail's account of his first few posts, that he was trolling to get responses? I'm assuming we all do? Myself, I believe him. I don't think a player who posts like he initially posted would be able to post how he is posting now unless they were trolling. Initially he was the most scummy player, but at that point in the game less than half the players had even posted. As time went on I began to think that no he's not scum, but he's a town player who just doesn't understand what the tone of this game is supposed to be. Honestly solar you were posting like you had just come in from a sc2 tournament thread, it was very hard to know what to make of that. IMO you actually caused more harm than if you would have allowed the discussion to remain on policy talk. The first few pages of posting were very chaotic and full of people making baseless accusations set by the tone of how you chose to play the game. Yes, I do think that myself and maybe some other people are able to make reads off the situation you created, but I think that those reads could have come regardless of your trolling.
No where does he explain what prompted him to change his opinion from scummy to bad townie.

Z-Boson questioned Thrawn about why did he choose me and not other lurkers and an accusation that Thrawn dodged Golbat. Thrawn has not explained himself to Golbat's concern yet. Thrawn rebuttal was mine had the most merit. Thrawn proceed to explain why I was a good candidate, but not why the other lurkers where not as good candidates.

For those reason I am currently at ##Vote Thrawn2112
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Ochrow was the first to claim against me and soon afterwards Thrawn join in. Therefore, I believe Z-Boson question on why should I be the focus over other lurkers stand towards him. Also, why focus on lurker lynching instead of scum hunting? did you not have a read on anyone as scum?

Show nested quote +
Now this could just be my earlier suspicions talking as there is no real concrete evidence behind this, but it does seem that this was rather deflective, and if you did have suspicions as scum that those two were masons it would benefit you to try and get them lynched. I do encourage you however to prove me wrong, because as I said before I am not sure about this, its really more a feeling than anything.


Show nested quote +
As it currently stands I am most suspicious of Arch for his lurking earlier, and the fact that as soon as he was called out on it his first reaction was an ooooh look this guy is scum post. And even with that post I felt that he was off the mark so until Arch or somebody else points out some reason or evidence that makes him look like a townie



I don't feel like it was deflective because I brought up something that seemed wrong until solar set it straight(which I checked out). However, most people agreed that scumhunting is more than lynch lurking and there was quite a few people that had YH pegged as scum. If that is the case won't the safer play be to remain silent if I am scum? Also your example of it being beneficial for me to be to discover if they are masons assuming I am scum is unfair, because if I am scum then they would be either my partner which I am busing out of the blue or they are townies. If I am scum then I would want to make them look like scum, but in my argument I did not give a support to them being scum. But if I am a townie they discovering they are scum was be useful cause we would know who to lynch or if I was a townie knowing they are Masons would remove 2 people off a possible list of suspects leaving every townie that is not them 10 people to look at instead of 12.





At the very start of this post he immediately refutes his previous case by saying "Alright after looking into Solar claim about a history with him and Jhuyt I can believe that Jhuyt was under the impression Solar could be emotionally."

At this point from the start of the game until this post he has spent over 30 hours without contributing anything while appearing very active.

Now moving forward to his case on Thrawn, the meat of it is in that Thrawn doesn't "explain what prompted him to change his opinion from scummy to bad townie." However if you read the quote regarding it in Archrun's post it is explaining exactly why.
Just to confirm what I'm thinking, do we all trust solarsail's account of his first few posts, that he was trolling to get responses? I'm assuming we all do? Myself, I believe him.
The rest of his case is just sheeping off of Solar and Z-Boson's claims against Thrawn.

His very last post is a bunch of quotes that I honestly have a hard time following but again he sheeps off of another player's accusations.

Tl;dr - Read the post and see why Archrun has been hiding his lack of contribution while appearing active.
Stutters695
Profile Joined July 2012
2610 Posts
August 16 2012 19:57 GMT
#363
EBWOP: ##Vote: Archrun

Forgot the :
Stutters695
Profile Joined July 2012
2610 Posts
August 16 2012 20:55 GMT
#381
On August 17 2012 05:20 YourHarry wrote:
I have to leave. I am already late, but at this point, I don't see any clear scum. I would much rather lynch a lurker. I think the best lurker lynch candidate is Golbat. Stutters and Jyhut don't have many posts, but at least they are here sometimes.

On August 17 2012 05:21 YourHarry wrote:
Having a lurker around that always has a potential to be mod-killed is dangerous. If golbat does not show up before deadline, I move to switch our votes to him.

I disagree. You're right, having a lurker who is a potential mod-kill is dangerous, but not to the town. We have 0 control on if he is here or not. So if he does not show up and ends up getting mod-killed he's gone and we just lose one extra mislynch. If we lynch him, we're essentially trading a possible scumhit for a guaranteed mislynch and next to 0 information that the flip gives heading into d2. This feels more like you're trying to deny information than set up a good policy.

If you really wanted to do a policy lynch you should have suggested it on Jhuyt or myself (obviously I would disagree with this, but from a YourHarry town standpoint it makes significantly more sense). We still get info due to actual interactions and accusations between the lurkers and other players while still enforcing the "post or you're dead" policy.
Stutters695
Profile Joined July 2012
2610 Posts
August 18 2012 05:13 GMT
#502
On August 18 2012 12:55 goodkarma wrote:
@YourHarry:

Any suggestions as to who this someone else is that we should lynch?


My first thoughts are either Orchrow or you.


You seem to be very interested in keeping thrawn alive as long as possible... I suggest you start making some meaningful suggestions as to who you feel looks scummier. And it would also be helpful if you commented on people's most recent cases against thrawn, Orchrow, and yourself instead of continuing to strive to keep Thrawn alive.


There are situations here where the vigi still shouldn't claim. Like what if there is an sk, but the vigi hasn't used his shot yet? A vigi counter claim here would be terrible, as he could wind up rb'ed by scum and NK'ed before he can do anything.

And if we wait, who's to say town doesn't get a successful medic save or rb? Or that scum or the sk (if he exists) doesn't just sit back and do nothing for one night? There's a few different ways that there could be an sk but fewer than two night kills.

Waiting achieves nothing. My read, and the read of several of us here, is that thrawn is scum. It's time for him to go. Read through the case points against him, and show us why you feel he might be town. It's more productive than your WIFOM defense of thrawn you're presenting now.


I agree 100% that if a Vig exists but didn't shoot Arch, they should NOT counter-claim.

I disagree that waiting is fruitless and lynching thrawn is a good play currently.

No matter how we spin it, Thrawn is now tied to Archrun's death.

If Thrawn is town, he has no incentive to lie and claim a kill he didn't commit (likewise about being a 1shot vig [which really isn't that uncommon for balance purposes in minis, from what I've read >1shot Vigs are a rarity]).

Now if we don't lynch Thrawn today his fate is directly tied to future NKs.
If he's scum and another Vig took a shot last night it would be absolutely terrible play for him to claim the kill he had no knowledge of. A counter-claim if we have a vig essentially kills him for no value at all to the scum team.
If 2 people die Night2 a Thrawn lynch is essentially a given Day 3 and we'll see then.
If only one person dies it either means he's telling the truth or either the scumteam or SK decided to hold their shot to throw us off (good for us in that we save a night kill).

Essentially it comes down to how certain we are that Thrawn is scum. If he flips red we're in a great position and have a lot of info to go off of. If he flips blue we've wasted Day 2 on a lynch that we could have gathered info by letting him live while trying to catch other scum.

Currently I'd rather focus on other targets and see what we can do as opposed to gambling on this.

I'm about to reread the thread and get some thoughts up on my reads, I just wanted to weigh in on this.
Stutters695
Profile Joined July 2012
2610 Posts
August 18 2012 05:54 GMT
#507
On August 18 2012 14:29 goodkarma wrote:
@Stutters:

I highly encourage you to read my case, which was posted just before the official day 2 post. There is strong reason to suspect that Thrawn is scum. I'll tell you what I told YourHarry:

There is really no reason to wait.

If after looking at my case you still feel that Thrawn isn't scum, I encourage you to share your defense of him with us. The biggest problem I see with your post is that I've already highlighted who all of the scum are.


A cornered scum would have no problem lying about his role to get out of a lynch, and that's what I see is the case with Thrawn.


That is a good case. However it backs up my point of not lynching Thrawn. If we pressure everyone for more content and inevitably fall back on that case (a very real possibility) then lynching Ochrow makes significantly more sense. Thrawn has 0 town cred and is not a threat at all to the town's direction today. If we lynch Ochrow instead and he flips red it all but confirms Thrawn as scum and puts YouHarry under great suspicion. I have no qualms if it is determined later on today that Thrawn is clearly the best lynch but deciding on it this early into the day is going to stifle discussion and give us less content heading into Day 3.
Stutters695
Profile Joined July 2012
2610 Posts
August 18 2012 07:00 GMT
#525
On August 18 2012 15:52 DarthPunk wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 18 2012 15:40 thrawn2112 wrote:
You are right that there is no evidence in either direction to prove or disprove my vig claim. I only vig claimed to give an explanation as to how things could have worked out the way they did if I am town.


How about you claimed Vig because you are the Vig? Huge Slip.

I take back all my points about waiting. I tried to give him the benefit of the doubt, but this is too much. I'm going to start looking more closely into filters to try and figure out a good target for after him
Stutters695
Profile Joined July 2012
2610 Posts
August 18 2012 07:01 GMT
#527
EBWOP: Ochrow when he comes back is a good start, he better have some good reasoning for GK's case.
Stutters695
Profile Joined July 2012
2610 Posts
August 19 2012 01:39 GMT
#571
On August 18 2012 17:10 YourHarry wrote:
Remaining player list, excluding myself:

DarthPunk
goodkarma
Golbat
thrawn2112
Jhuyt
SolarSail
Z-BosoN
Stutters695
Ochrow

Darth is almost for sure not the SK, especially because he was roleblocked and there was a second night kill.

SK should also be very quick to dismiss any vigilante claim, because there were only two night kills. SK, if vig claim is true, should have expected 3 night kills. In this regard, Darth, Golbat, Solar and GK are likely candidates. Darth, for reason mentioned above, is not SK. Golbat I think is scum. Either Solar or GK could be SK.

Also, assuming that SK was aiming for the scum, he must have thought that mkfuba is scum. In this respect, Solar or Ochrow could be the SK because they both believed my mason-read claim and may have thought that mkfuba who was suspicious of me was scum. This is, admittedly, a weak connection but I think this is a possibility. Solar also was one of the players who quickly dismissed Thrawn's vigilante claim.

Z-boson hasn't posted today yet, but he seemed to suspect me on Day 1 so I don't think he would have targeted mkfuba as SK. So, unlikely to be the SK.

Stutters makes this possibly suspicious post regarding SK on Day 1:

Show nested quote +
On August 15 2012 10:29 Stutters695 wrote:

In regards to an SK:
I agree with discussing the SK being a waste of time. It will become obvious very quickly if there is an SK when multiple people are dying nightly.


He also ends up voting for Archrun, and may have thought that I was townie. Thus, Stutter targeting mkfuba, who was suspicious of me, could be consistent with Stutter being the SK.

So, currently I think two likely SK candidates are Solar and Stutter and then maybe GoodKarma.

For now though, we should focus more on lynching the scums than SK, as SK could help us target some of the scums.


Only golbat called you out on this post so I want to second that since he had it in a spoiler and it seems like people missed it.

Are you kidding me? This post isn't WIFOM? Please explain to me why if there is a SK he would denounce the possibility of a vig instead of letting that play out and identifying a scum for himself while knowing the truth? I'm not even going to go into the rest of this post as it's so out there everything will just be me answering your "what if" with another one.

Now what really stands out to me in this post is trying to pin down what does Town Harry get from posting this? A plethora of hypotheticals that show Harry's opinions on possible SK's doesn't save the town tonight with a guaranteed hit on a lynch. The only potential upside to this is that it would sway the discussion away from him possibly getting himself mislynched however that isn't even pro-town as actually making a good case does the same thing without trying to misdirect the town.

Now what would Scum Harry get out of this SK post? Let's assume for a minute that Thrawn is actually telling the truth and he has just been playing a terrible Vig. The scumteam would have killed mkfuba in that case. Mkfuba only focused on YourHarry and SolarSail before dying so I find it strange that Harry is still so focused on him.

I'm going to go through filters and draw up some better cases after I run to the store, but just some food for thought. I'd wager that if Thrawn is actually Vig, YH is scum 100%.
Stutters695
Profile Joined July 2012
2610 Posts
August 19 2012 22:35 GMT
#653
YourHarry is still my best vote. This is going to be a long case but I'm abridging the non major parts due to wanting to give you guys time to read it. Ask and I'll go into even more detail on parts i skimmed.

Looking at his filter again his voting is just ridiculous. He starts in the thread by linking his filters (post 1) and addressing his different playstyles.

To summarize my meta, in the first 2.5 games, I am quick to make accusations and switch my vote players with little explanation. I decided to change my meta in game 3 where I drew vanilla townie. I played more conservative to avoid suspicion.

I am not sure which meta I will choose this game


Although its pretty obvious which meta he "chose" this game it got me thinking about his motives. Town Harry has no reason to hide how he'll be playing while Scum Harry has just left himself an out in case someone like Shady were to bring up discrepencies in his Meta later.

The next thing that stood out to me was his early vote switching. Please note that these posts were sequential in his filter and his 3rd and 4th total since the start of the game.

On August 15 2012 11:59 YourHarry wrote:
@Z-boson, posting filters is pretty easy. Why not.

@Shady Sands. You are accusing Solarsail of being hostile? You think scums are more likely to respond with hostility?

Thrawn on the other hand is busy posting fluffs and WIFOM statement like "It could be that you, as mafia, know he is town and are taking advantage of solar's emotional reactions by drawing them out even further and immediately sidetracking everyone onto solar's case."

##Vote Thrawn


On August 15 2012 12:03 YourHarry wrote:
OK.

##Unvote
##Vote Solarsail

"Imagine how scared of posting you would be if you'd signed up for your first game and rolled Mafia. Your posts would be short, infrequent, and not hold any information that disagrees with the general direction so as not to stand out."


The bolded parts of this quote and the next one are my emphasis on what he omitted from the original posts. Note how the entirety of his reason for voting Thrawn is WIFOM but has only quote from Thrawn as evidence. That quote is about Shady challenging Solar so early.
Shady, can you explain your reasoning for initially jumping all over solar? It could be that you, as mafia, know he is town and are taking advantage of solar's emotional reactions by drawing them out even further and immediately sidetracking everyone onto solar's case.
. Note how he leaves the context of the quote out of his "case" because if you consider what Shady was tunneling Solar so hard about originally it was a pretty weak reason (He said Solar soft accused me of playing safe because I was scum during my first post (also the first of the game).)

His next post is just saying "OK" before switching to Solar. Again his quote was taken out of context.
Reading the many guides linked on the library which are incredbly helpful, the most important thing I saw is that the town needs to stay active and stay on point. If we are to lynch anyone it has to be because of real information and evidence, and that has to be readily available from the thread. If we're trying to learn we need a long record to practise analysing.

Imagine how scared of posting you would be if you'd signed up for your first game and rolled Mafia. Your posts would be short, infrequent, and not hold any information that disagrees with the general direction so as not to stand out.


In his first 4 posts he's done nothing at all pro-town. He's tried to mislead us twice with his quotes without ever even pressuring the people he's voted for. This also provides another motive from a scum perspective of devaluing his votes. By switching around all day when it came time to actually vote for the lynch no one even questioned why Harry had placed six votes throughout the day while only building a couple of real cases which were all very weak.


His only other "contributions" for the next two hours are:
spamming the thread with one liners and no real analysis
accusing Mkfuba (confirmed town) of opportunistically jumping onto the Solar badnwagon while twitsting a fairly townie quote into a scum play. Relevant quotes are in spoilers.

+ Show Spoiler +

On August 15 2012 13:28 YourHarry wrote:
Actually I find mkfuba suspicious. Although I think Solar did act somewhat scummy (and I voted him at one point), I think Solar is town. There were four people who thought Solar was scum: Shady, YourHarry, thrawn, and mkfuba. After three people expressed suspicion on Solar, Mkfuba opportunistically but non-committingly fuels Solar bandwagon:


On August 15 2012 12:33 mkfuba07 wrote:
On August 15 2012 11:43 thrawn2112 wrote:
Shady, can you explain your reasoning for initially jumping all over solar? It could be that you, as mafia, know he is town and are taking advantage of solar's emotional reactions by drawing them out even further and immediately sidetracking everyone onto solar's case.

The problem with the second part of this post is that it's not Shady who is sidetracking the conversation. He asked a question and Solarsail is perpetuating the suspicion by not addressing it. Shady started it, Solar is keeping it going. Multiple people have told him to post better and he's ignored us/thrown our advice back in our faces with a snarky comment. No matter what, this isn't pro-town behaviour.

My view on Shady's first accusation (that Solar was obliquely accusing Stutters) is that Shady was overthinking it. I didn't even get a hint of supposition that Solar was accusing Stutters. What makes Solar seem at all suspicious to me has been his reactions the whole time. Nothing scummy yet, but a stubborn refusal to actually participate in pro-town behaviour.




[B]On August 16 2012 01:38 YourHarry wrote:
Shady, regarding your accusation of me, the only thing that makes me scummy is this:

Show nested quote +
On August 15 2012 18:49 Shady Sands wrote:

Mkfuba posted something that was perfectly townish which YH tried to twist into scummy play.


Again, I was indeed guilty of this. But this was a result of my strong suspicion that Solar was town. I did realize I was taking things out of context when Mkfuba pointed this out.

You accuse me of posting one liners. I often post one liners and not much information is available in the beginning of the day, so few sentences would suffice in explaining reads. One liners can have content.

And agreeing with you so readily is not a scummy behavior. Me if anything as scum may even be reluctant to agree with people readily, unless they have a strong case, in fear that people may point things out.

@Goodkarma. You did not find Solar scummy based on previous cases at all? What makes you so confident about town going in the wrong direction in accusing Solar. It is almost as if you know his alignment?



Moving on to the next RL day (Aug 16 1AM TL time) his first post is just defending his ridiculous claim that Solarsail is town amidst his spam by saying that he caught a hint that GK and Solar were masons but decided against it when they accused him. The next 6 or 7 posts are all focused on his "case" on Goodkarma. His case entirely revolves around the fact that the breadcrumb he caught that no one else did confirms that GK must either be scum or him and Solar are masons. Throughout the day he tunnels GK while defending himself and adding no additional analysis or quesitoning.



I'll have to continue this in about an hour but just a recap of through page 2 of his filter. He's voteswitched without explinations numerous times, misquoted people intentionally while voting against them. I posted earlier about his obsession with the SK I'd encourage everyone to read and I'd ask people to check out his filter yourselves and see the drastic inconsistencies. I realize this is inconvenient but I'll be back in about an hour.

[b]##VOTE: YourHarry
Stutters695
Profile Joined July 2012
2610 Posts
August 19 2012 22:36 GMT
#654
EBWOP:
##VOTE: YourHarry

Additionally due to YH's activeness a flip gives us additional information, especially if he's scum. By the same reasoning an Obvious/Ochrow lynch if no one gets behind YH.
Stutters695
Profile Joined July 2012
2610 Posts
August 19 2012 22:38 GMT
#655
EBWOP2: Shady, can you explain your reasoning for initially jumping all over solar? It could be that you, as mafia, know he is town and are taking advantage of solar's emotional reactions by drawing them out even further and immediately sidetracking everyone onto solar's case.



Reading the many guides linked on the library which are incredbly helpful, the most important thing I saw is that the town needs to stay active and stay on point. If we are to lynch anyone it has to be because of real information and evidence, and that has to be readily available from the thread. If we're trying to learn we need a long record to practise analysing.

Imagine how scared of posting you would be if you'd signed up for your first game and rolled Mafia. Your posts would be short, infrequent, and not hold any information that disagrees with the general direction so as not to stand out.


those parts should be bolded, not entire quotes
Stutters695
Profile Joined July 2012
2610 Posts
August 20 2012 00:13 GMT
#713
On August 20 2012 08:03 goodkarma wrote:
@Stutters:

Thank you for your case!


But a couple things:

First, Shady is dead...

Second, I urge you to look into if his play has a scum agenda than if his play has some inconsistencies. Otherwise, for all we know YourHarry is playing a really, really bad town game. Upon re-reading your post, you actually seem to have done a decent job of this.


My current read on YourHarry: I also believe that YourHarry is scum. Some things that have stuck out specifically to me (outside of "associative reads"):

I do find it a little suspicious he tunneled me so hard with such a weak case early game. Especially considering his early pre-game comments. I could see him, as scum, believing I'd be an easy target based off my admittedly weak performance in NMM XXIII.

However, the biggest move that could be from a scum agenda I've seen from YourHarry so far is his last minute vote switch to Shady day one. Offing the most vocal town presence day one was very beneficial to the scum team.


His views on Thrawn and Ochrow seem very suspect by association, but keep in mind none of these players have flipped yet. I don't think this was really a large motivating factor in your read, but still I felt it was worth mentioning.

With all that being said, I'm going to take a quick reassessment of YourHarry's filter before the voting deadline (in other words, in the upcoming hour).


Just wanted to clarify. The bolded part about Shady wasn't calling him out. It was in my case that I put that I was bolding parts YH had omitted when making his first two "cases" to justify his votes. Unfortunately I fucked up the formatting and bolded the entire quote so that was me showing the parts he left out in EBWOP2.

And my overarching themes for thinking he's scum are his repeated misdirection through quotes which serve no purpose to the town, his 6 page filter with no cases he's stuck behind. Every time he votes off of a "case" he conveniently finds something he's overlooked which makes it so he isn't tied to the vote ("It only showed Y was scum if X is town and I'm not sure about X now" and excuses along those lines). He's "caught" two breadcrumbs that the people in question denied were breadcrumbs at all to base cases off of. This provides scum Harry another way to back out of a read that could show he has knowledge he shouldn't. Obviously everyone isn't perfect but I see no town motive behind the great majority of his posts.
Stutters695
Profile Joined July 2012
2610 Posts
August 20 2012 00:23 GMT
#715
Can we get a vote summary like you did for D1? Thanks.

Wow I had the time wrong. I thought it was a 9EST lynch not 8.

And this is why at the start of D2 I encouraged people to not just lynch the obvious target. Gonna read over the filters and see if we can salvage this. Unless we get a medic save tonight we're down to 5/3 which means we're in MYLO tomorrow.
Stutters695
Profile Joined July 2012
2610 Posts
August 20 2012 01:39 GMT
#719
I'd like everyone who voted for Thrawn to explain why they felt that lynching a claimed Vig who wasn't a threat to the direction of the town was a better idea than lynching one of the other candidates we had (Obvious, YH or anyone else for that matter).
Stutters695
Profile Joined July 2012
2610 Posts
August 20 2012 21:34 GMT
#734
Can we vote no-lynch or does someone have to die each day?

I'm not advocating a no lynch, just want it clarified before crunch time.
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