You've been asking a lot of questions lately, but I can't find many(any?) of your reads, would you mind sharing your stronger ones?
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Alsn
Sweden995 Posts
You've been asking a lot of questions lately, but I can't find many(any?) of your reads, would you mind sharing your stronger ones? | ||
sylverfyre
United States8298 Posts
On November 05 2012 04:50 Mr. Cheesecake wrote: @Clarity I agree with the fluff point on your case of Debears - fluff creating more fluff because fluff is fluffy fluff. (Fluff = confidence from last game). The first point, however, you say that he was trying to halt discussion. I'd disagree, Debears and I both wanted Djo to stop because the argument was, well, ridiculous in nature. It was pretty much going in circles and if we hadn't stopped it, we'd still be drowned in it. There have been multiple ridiculous arguments like that this game. Off the top of my head, I'd consider Djo's nitpicking about my word choice, Debears and Rad going at it over "fluff percentage" equally useless arguments. | ||
Rad
United States935 Posts
Alright, I've looked back into the debears fluff concerns. I started with sylver's first post calling debears out on fluff and looked at debears' posts before that. I'm not concerned with anything after that, at this point, because his posts before then is what triggered the fluff talking point. I feel pretty good with his content up to that point (~66 posts I think, I may have miss counted). I don't feel like it was a ton of fluff (using clarity's definition). debears tends to respond quickly to people addressing a point or two at a time, so he simply ends up with a big filter comprised mostly of smaller posts. I glanced through his XVIII game (was town) and even there, most of his posts are shorter and addressing a specific point. He seems pretty consistent in that throughout the 3 games. His posts almost always spawn additional discussion and that's good for town. He had a few joke posts in there that were clearly useless, but those aren't difficult to ignore and don't really affect the readability of his filter. Also, the theme of this game was bound to produce some of the joke posts by debears and cheese, so that's forgivable. In the end, I don't think this is a great point on the case vs debears. It seems like an incredibly easy "scum tell" sort of thing to just throw out there that instantly becomes a talking point and may never end. It's not attacking a particular statement or logical thought process, it's just saying "you write shitty content that clutters up the thread and that's scummy." That's fine if he's actually doing that, but after looking through his posts, I don't feel he was. | ||
Alsn
Sweden995 Posts
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debears
United States2516 Posts
On November 05 2012 04:06 sylverfyre wrote: I dunno. I really can't say Djo Debears scumteam. But every time djo tunnels someone, debears is right behind - scum teaming up onto a townie to look more genuine himself? Also, he's wasted peoples time a lot. With fluffy posts and oneliners, then with the entire "percentage fluff" argument with Rad - which he wasn't even willing to drop after Clarity gave him a percentage. Also there's the large amounts of OMGUS coming from debears. Like, everyone who has ever accused him, I think? You mean Clarity, right? I'm definitely agreeing with clarity being fishy. Definitely some suspicious... mediocre content that he's bringing forward. But he is consistently bringing content up, he has a 4 page filter (with low fluff, but also not with huge, attention grabbing accusations) I'm not willing to evaluate timing for scumminess/innocence - there's too many factors going into timing. Ultimately, though, I don't want to vote for him because there's just not enough material to read into motivations yet. Shit, his recent case about debears is responding pretty convincingly to being called out for low content. Meanwhile debears quadruple posts. I understand that one was a mispost, but you don't need to dedicate another post to "ugh mispost" then make two more oneliner posts following that. That's exactly what I was complaining about earlier. As we get closer to lynchtime it's that much more unproductive, and also demoralizing to people who come back from any flavor of AFK and realize there's that many more posts to crawl through. And exactly why Djo's thing says "France" is irrelevant. He's made it clear where he is, that's the only useful piece of information there. Djo's response to it, regardless of what exactly it is, will have nothing to do with scumhunting. ##Unvote ##Vote Debears 1) Order of suspicion does not usually matter, especially with only 2 scum. Reasoning is the main issue. I've had unique/original reasoning to go with each of my cases. 2) OMGUS is fine when it's warranted. I OMGUS'd you because I felt you were scummy, and your recent actions haven't made you look town at all. 3) You're calling me out for quadruple posting when I'm responding to relevant stuff in the thread. The mispost post is to tell people there's nothing to read there since there's a large amount of text in the spoiler 4) You're trying to make it sound as though every post I make is worthless, where I have good cases/good points about cases with specific questions in my filter Yet again, you seem to think that activity = scumminess since you seem to be blatantly ignoring the content posts that I have | ||
Alsn
Sweden995 Posts
On November 05 2012 05:09 debears wrote: I have to admit that you're right about that one, you haven't, and I like his posting since then too.I still don't get why you guys are thinking it was a personal attack on Obsy. I'll call people out when I think they aren't contributing. Being on the aggressive side usually makes them more alert and responsive. I think the key here is that I haven't kept bashing him. I like his posting since. | ||
Mr. Cheesecake
United States3756 Posts
Well, to no surprise, Djo is on the list. For reasons I'm sure everyone is aware of -- so I will not repeat them. I'm actually surprised Debears hasn't given a case on Djo yet, since he asked me for a plethora of quotes earlier -- but I guess the state of affairs has changed seeing as now he is under the microscope. Wait, Debears gives a post on Sylver instead? Why does this feel like last game where he was posting all these different cases on anyone but the other two scums to spread suspicion / avoid it? Clarity... his case against Debears is totally based on fluff content and a few other small topics. I find it really tough to get on that sort of bandwagon with such little reason. His case feels kind of OMGUS too. Lynching Debears right now would be good obviously if he flips red, but if he flips green then at least we know he is speaking truthfully about everything. Right now, I find it difficult to take anything he says seriously because I know his scum meta. He has given cases / thoughts on a bunch of people right now, and if he flips town we would know his words were 100% truth. Lynching for information, I know not the best tactic in the world, but it's something to think about when I'm considering his vote. I still don't think Sylver is scummy. Djo / Debears kind of jumped all over him. | ||
Alsn
Sweden995 Posts
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Rad
United States935 Posts
On November 05 2012 05:23 Alsn wrote: @Rad You've been asking a lot of questions lately, but I can't find many(any?) of your reads, would you mind sharing your stronger ones? @Alsn I'll just share them all. I had been planning on doing it soon anyway since lynch time is approaching. Clarity - leaning town. I don't know what it is but I get townie vibes from him. I'd also note here that I got townie vibes from cheese all last game, and we see that was a garbage read. With so many people focusing on a clarity bandwagon atm, maybe I'm wrong. Obzy - my biggest town read. Smart posts, smart reads, very useful so far. I want to get some more from him on sylver since I don't agree with his vote on clarity atm. Alsn - leaning town, maybe second biggest town read. He's been very useful and pushing good discussion. Djo - leaning town. He answers my questions without hesitation and is pushing conversation. His "scumslips", well, I have to refer to nack's thoughts last game as he was spot on then and that same reasoning makes sense this game. debears - null. I'd be leaning scum on him if people agreed with my points on him but they've mostly been ignored, so I'll assume people think they're bad. Also, I feel like he's been really useful for town overall, regardless of my concerns with him. Obzy seems pretty sure he's town so as my biggest town read, I feel the urge to take his thoughts as genuine. sylver - leaning scum, but don't feel great about voting him. I think he might be the best vote candidate at this point but I feel terrible about it because I'm not convinced yet. cheese - null. I wish he had more pressure on him but I'm not sure what to push. It seems like no one else has a good idea for that either because he's skating by untouched. da0ud - null. I hope he gets a chance to jump on some before the lynch. If anyone is lurking it's him. I need to read over his content again to see if I feel he's worthy of a policy lynch or not. | ||
Alsn
Sweden995 Posts
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sylverfyre
United States8298 Posts
Da0ud is quiet, but he speaks up and contributes when he's around. I can't really call that scummy. I definitely don't think it's worth lynching him over it. | ||
Mr. Cheesecake
United States3756 Posts
On November 05 2012 05:49 Alsn wrote: Cheese, disregarding what we find out if debears is lynched, what do you actually think of him? You say you have difficulty taking him seriously, but what does that tell you? Is he scum or is he null or is he town because of it? To say the least, I think he's using more logic than some at this stage which is why I don't want to lynch him. We can always find his faulty logic / contradictions later (he'll have to make them at some point if he is scum) I'm going to have to say null. | ||
Mr. Cheesecake
United States3756 Posts
I liked how you had that townie read on me last game . I think you had that read because I was playing very neutral (no strong ultra-mega reads) and using logical points. Is Obzy doing that this game? To you, does he seem like me in the previous game? | ||
sylverfyre
United States8298 Posts
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Mr. Cheesecake
United States3756 Posts
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Alsn
Sweden995 Posts
On November 05 2012 04:50 Mr. Cheesecake wrote: Which one is it? @Clarity I agree with the fluff point on your case of Debears - fluff creating more fluff because fluff is fluffy fluff. (Fluff = confidence from last game). The first point, however, you say that he was trying to halt discussion. I'd disagree, Debears and I both wanted Djo to stop because the argument was, well, ridiculous in nature. It was pretty much going in circles and if we hadn't stopped it, we'd still be drowned in it. | ||
Mr. Cheesecake
United States3756 Posts
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Rad
United States935 Posts
On November 05 2012 06:08 Mr. Cheesecake wrote: @Rad I liked how you had that townie read on me last game . I think you had that read because I was playing very neutral (no strong ultra-mega reads) and using logical points. Is Obzy doing that this game? To you, does he seem like me in the previous game? On November 05 2012 06:08 Mr. Cheesecake wrote: ebwop: Is Clarity doing that this game* No, I feel like Clarity is putting himself out there more than you did last game. You were very safe attacking djo because everyone thought he was scum. Though I don't agree with his fluff argument, it seems sincere, and really the whole fluff argument is entirely subjective (which is why I thought it would get dropped early, but it's stuck around). | ||
debears
United States2516 Posts
On November 05 2012 06:08 sylverfyre wrote: Debears, much of your 'unique reasoning' was full of holes. Anyone can make a case built on scraps, but your cases haven't held together in my eyes. Thus, I think you did it in order to hide the fact that you wanted to point fingers in the same direction as someone else and hide your OMGUSing. So that's all you have to say on my response to your vote post? Very nice. No rebuttal and you still think I'm scum? That's not scummy at all And you think your case is bulletproof? Your main accusation against me, fluff, isn't viewed like that by people who actually want to determine whether I'm town or scum On November 05 2012 05:25 Rad wrote: On debears and fluff Alright, I've looked back into the debears fluff concerns. I started with sylver's first post calling debears out on fluff and looked at debears' posts before that. I'm not concerned with anything after that, at this point, because his posts before then is what triggered the fluff talking point. I feel pretty good with his content up to that point (~66 posts I think, I may have miss counted). I don't feel like it was a ton of fluff (using clarity's definition). debears tends to respond quickly to people addressing a point or two at a time, so he simply ends up with a big filter comprised mostly of smaller posts. I glanced through his XVIII game (was town) and even there, most of his posts are shorter and addressing a specific point. He seems pretty consistent in that throughout the 3 games. His posts almost always spawn additional discussion and that's good for town. He had a few joke posts in there that were clearly useless, but those aren't difficult to ignore and don't really affect the readability of his filter. Also, the theme of this game was bound to produce some of the joke posts by debears and cheese, so that's forgivable. In the end, I don't think this is a great point on the case vs debears. It seems like an incredibly easy "scum tell" sort of thing to just throw out there that instantly becomes a talking point and may never end. It's not attacking a particular statement or logical thought process, it's just saying "you write shitty content that clutters up the thread and that's scummy." That's fine if he's actually doing that, but after looking through his posts, I don't feel he was. | ||
debears
United States2516 Posts
On November 05 2012 06:19 Rad wrote: No, I feel like Clarity is putting himself out there more than you did last game. You were very safe attacking djo because everyone thought he was scum. Though I don't agree with his fluff argument, it seems sincere, and really the whole fluff argument is entirely subjective (which is why I thought it would get dropped early, but it's stuck around). Rad, something I would like to point out. Did clarity start off the game by putting himself out there? Or did it take 2 cases on him to start actually taking stances? | ||
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