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On September 26 2013 23:00 heavenz wrote:Show nested quote +On September 26 2013 21:34 BajaBlood wrote: Both Jayte and xIvanJ are lurking, but there's two reasons for my apparent favoritism:
(1) When I wrote to defend Jayte, it was well under 24 hours since the game started. Since at that point I didn't know people's typical active times, I figured there was a chance he would become active in the next short period. It'd been a full 24 hours since the game opened when I brought up xIvanJ's inactivity - whatever his schedule is he should have had a chance to contribute by then. (2) Not only has xIvanJ only written one post, I don't like it's content either. Whether or not we actually execute a policy lynch, I dislike stating that we should tolerate lurking; there has to be pressure on lurkers.
This isn't set in stone, but for now I'm gonna ##Vote: xIvanJ.
Jayte didn't really take advantage of the window of time I offered him in (1), and the second post he made wasn't particularly helpful. As it stands, I don't really care for Jayte either, but I'm not going to go back on my gut just because I've been accused of unreasonably defending him.
For now, I will sincerely hope for some good analysis from xIvanJ so that I can remove this vote. I would advice to vote for Jayte assuming that xIvanJ get's modkilled or replaced.
Good point. If as we get closer to the deadline it seems like xIvanJ isn't going to vote, I'd probably change my vote. At this point, that would mean a vote for Jayte.
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On September 26 2013 22:29 onlywonderboy wrote: I think I got scared into writing one liners due to people claiming we were going to lynch non-active people. But, tis true, I should have transitioned into writing more useful posts. This is still my first game so I'm trying to take a lot of it in. I have pretty much zero knowledge of everyone in this game so getting a read off of people on a relatively few number of pages is proving more difficult than I had hoped. That said, stand outs right now:
Jayte: Joke post to start off the game, hasn't contributed anything of value. Isn't trying to cause chaos in the town, but his absence is questionable. Mentions being busy with work, could just be throwing that out so we don't seem suspicious
MLuneth: Had that odd question to start, could have easily asked a coach instead of putting it in the thread.
playerboy: Great analysis of all the players. But, imo, it seemed like a post that was trying too hard to put the spotlight on "Hey, look, I'm helping the town!" I'm definitely not saying he should be a candidate for the first lynch, but just something to keep in mind in the future.
Mate, all you've done here is repeat some one liners and suck up to playerboy, now I've read some of your LoL articles and they're pretty good, so I believe that you can do significantly better than that.
Super Scummy post as it ads nothing at all to any discussion
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On September 26 2013 23:41 MLuneth wrote:Show nested quote +On September 26 2013 22:29 onlywonderboy wrote: I think I got scared into writing one liners due to people claiming we were going to lynch non-active people. But, tis true, I should have transitioned into writing more useful posts. This is still my first game so I'm trying to take a lot of it in. I have pretty much zero knowledge of everyone in this game so getting a read off of people on a relatively few number of pages is proving more difficult than I had hoped. That said, stand outs right now:
Jayte: Joke post to start off the game, hasn't contributed anything of value. Isn't trying to cause chaos in the town, but his absence is questionable. Mentions being busy with work, could just be throwing that out so we don't seem suspicious
MLuneth: Had that odd question to start, could have easily asked a coach instead of putting it in the thread.
playerboy: Great analysis of all the players. But, imo, it seemed like a post that was trying too hard to put the spotlight on "Hey, look, I'm helping the town!" I'm definitely not saying he should be a candidate for the first lynch, but just something to keep in mind in the future.
Mate, all you've done here is repeat some one liners and suck up to playerboy, now I've read some of your LoL articles and they're pretty good, so I believe that you can do significantly better than that. Super Scummy post as it ads nothing at all to any discussion I said the analysis was pretty good, but I said to be wary of playerboy. I would hardly consider that sucking up. Some of this is my fault for not jumping into the discussion earlier, but there haven't been that many posts to analysis, so of course I'm going to retread some territory. People were calling me out so I tried to be upfront with my opinions. Not scummy, just responding to the people asking to know where I stand.
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On September 26 2013 22:29 onlywonderboy wrote:
playerboy: Great analysis of all the players. But, imo, it seemed like a post that was trying too hard to put the spotlight on "Hey, look, I'm helping the town!" I'm definitely not saying he should be a candidate for the first lynch, but just something to keep in mind in the future.
I appreciate it, and I really like that you don't trust me right of the bat just because I wrote a massive wall of text, I would have questioned you if you weren't being cautious.
On September 26 2013 22:25 BajaBlood wrote: That aside, I think your analysis is good, playerboy. I appreciate the effort you're putting into the thread. Definitely getting a good vibe. I can understand where you are coming from with your perspective on me - you're welcome to continue to see if I' appear to be acting irrationally regarding Jayte as the game goes on.
The only other thing I disagree with is on the heavenz part - you yourself (and I did this too) said you had a greenish read to Zaragon but didn't have much to support it, why is it odd that heavenz does too?
Like I said, those are only my "feels" for now, nothing is set in stone and there is still a decent amount of time left untill the nightphase, we should use this time to keep people talking, the more people talk, the more likely it is that they'll say something they weren't supposed to say.
It wasn't really odd, but I would really like to know why he thinks that Zaragon is towny, writing that someone is town is easy, backing it up with arguments is a bit harder, but it can convince people that your opinion is the right one.
On September 26 2013 23:00 heavenz wrote:Show nested quote +On September 26 2013 21:34 BajaBlood wrote: Both Jayte and xIvanJ are lurking, but there's two reasons for my apparent favoritism:
(1) When I wrote to defend Jayte, it was well under 24 hours since the game started. Since at that point I didn't know people's typical active times, I figured there was a chance he would become active in the next short period. It'd been a full 24 hours since the game opened when I brought up xIvanJ's inactivity - whatever his schedule is he should have had a chance to contribute by then. (2) Not only has xIvanJ only written one post, I don't like it's content either. Whether or not we actually execute a policy lynch, I dislike stating that we should tolerate lurking; there has to be pressure on lurkers.
This isn't set in stone, but for now I'm gonna ##Vote: xIvanJ.
Jayte didn't really take advantage of the window of time I offered him in (1), and the second post he made wasn't particularly helpful. As it stands, I don't really care for Jayte either, but I'm not going to go back on my gut just because I've been accused of unreasonably defending him.
For now, I will sincerely hope for some good analysis from xIvanJ so that I can remove this vote. I would advice to vote for Jayte assuming that xIvanJ get's modkilled or replaced.
I think xIvanJ will be modkilled, he has only posted once so far and it wasn't an impressive one at that (just agreeing with things that have already been said). Jayte hasn't really been all that productive, and his low post count isn't really helping either so that means I will put my vote on Jayte for now, would really like it if he could defend himself as I really don't want to mislynch :/. That doesn't mean I'm not suspicious of BajaBlood anymore though <3 (I appreciate you taking the time to defend yourself though, definitely a plus in my book).
##Vote: Jayte
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Morning all, just woke up and want to provide my opinions on everything that happened while I slept. I will vote in a future post, as I still want to hear from the inactives and I will be around till day end.
First off: MLuneth's re-entry into the thread is just as confusing as his entry. He opens again with an odd post in
On September 26 2013 16:26 MLuneth wrote:Time for my first scum read: heavenz I think he is scum because: - Willingness to bring up useless information/ ask for pointless information that is irrelevant to the scumhunt
+ Show Spoiler +On September 26 2013 00:25 heavenz wrote:here's our last newby game: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=426146Bereft and Blurry were town and I was mafia. So regarding Blurry, he's very reasonable, gives good imput, but keeps a rather conservative position. He was killed night1 so, I only know his day1 play. The spectators agreed that he was the "obvious" lynch choice, because he played good town (which wasn't that obvious to the players). I would expect of him to play a good townman here as well. Bereft has the right intention, but he was quite busy, so some decision came hasty. I would expect him to play active, calling players out who are not activly participating and pursuing town goals. So, assuming that both are town, I'ld say we have good chances. Even if they aren't town, and they are participating well it's an advantage.
+ Show Spoiler +On September 26 2013 00:49 heavenz wrote:gogogo, everybody post something have you participated in games before this? What are your experiences with tl mafia games?
In regards to your first post I feel that the last game is pretty irrelevant as hopefully they learned something in between game. Furthermore, this information is even more useless if they are scum, in which case it can put us off them completely. On your second point we really don't want everyone posting their previous experiences of mafia as it just clogs up the thread. He wants to clog up the thread, a scum tell
- A willingness to lynch lurkers
+ Show Spoiler +On September 25 2013 23:14 heavenz wrote: the reason why it's a good strat to threaten to lynch all lurkers is to not have any lurkers in the first place. Nothing is easier for scum then just to drop a few summaries and make a post about who they suspect and then stay out of everything for the most part. What he leaves out in this good plan of his is that lynching lurkers gives us no information and therefore completely wastes the lynch, meaning that mafia gets to kill someone effectively for free He wants us to waste our lynch, a scum tell
The two points he makes I just flat out disagree with. I think heavenz was making pro-town moves at a point in time that there wasn't really much else going on so it WAS very useful. Past game information is always useful albeit unreliable, and trying to start conversations by asking questions (however relevant or irrelevant they are) is good. We needed discussion at that point in time and he started some. Secondly, many of us discussed the lurker lynching pretty in depth and i thought it was decided that we need to pressure them by threatening the lynch (Zaragon, Me, Heavenz). You even bringing that back up is kind of anti-town. Not only that, but Heavenz wasn't the only one pro-lurker-lynch and I think it's odd that you single him out like this.
Suspicious, IMO, but i'd rather spend this day working on getting us into a productive active mode and going after quiet people.
Especially now that we are close, we have 3 people who are insanely quiet out of 13, that's NO GOOD. Out of a possible 4 scum that means there's a 30% chance that any one person is scum, I'm willing to take that risk on a quiet person if they don't speak up and offer some good information and become interested. Really unnaceptable, so I'm agreeing with BajaBlood, playerboy and stormtemplar on this one.
and final note on the BajaBlood suspiciousness... I don't really agree with that. He's targetting 2 quiet people, and I don't honestly think it matters which one we go after. They need to step up. That's all i have to say about that.
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EBWOP: The 3 people who im saying are quiet is Blurry, xIvan and Jayte.... why is everyone letting Blurry off the hook just because he had a nice opening post?
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On September 26 2013 16:26 MLuneth wrote:Time for my first scum read: heavenz I think he is scum because: - Willingness to bring up useless information/ ask for pointless information that is irrelevant to the scumhunt
+ Show Spoiler +On September 26 2013 00:25 heavenz wrote:here's our last newby game: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=426146Bereft and Blurry were town and I was mafia. So regarding Blurry, he's very reasonable, gives good imput, but keeps a rather conservative position. He was killed night1 so, I only know his day1 play. The spectators agreed that he was the "obvious" lynch choice, because he played good town (which wasn't that obvious to the players). I would expect of him to play a good townman here as well. Bereft has the right intention, but he was quite busy, so some decision came hasty. I would expect him to play active, calling players out who are not activly participating and pursuing town goals. So, assuming that both are town, I'ld say we have good chances. Even if they aren't town, and they are participating well it's an advantage.
+ Show Spoiler +On September 26 2013 00:49 heavenz wrote:gogogo, everybody post something have you participated in games before this? What are your experiences with tl mafia games?
In regards to your first post I feel that the last game is pretty irrelevant as hopefully they learned something in between game. Furthermore, this information is even more useless if they are scum, in which case it can put us off them completely. On your second point we really don't want everyone posting their previous experiences of mafia as it just clogs up the thread. He wants to clog up the thread, a scum tell
- A willingness to lynch lurkers
+ Show Spoiler +On September 25 2013 23:14 heavenz wrote: the reason why it's a good strat to threaten to lynch all lurkers is to not have any lurkers in the first place. Nothing is easier for scum then just to drop a few summaries and make a post about who they suspect and then stay out of everything for the most part. What he leaves out in this good plan of his is that lynching lurkers gives us no information and therefore completely wastes the lynch, meaning that mafia gets to kill someone effectively for free He wants us to waste our lynch, a scum tell
MLuneth, I don't agree with anything at all in that post. Feels like you're constructing a case; heavenz has been posting pro-town things. I suppose you could be town with a very early tunnel thought, but you feel scummy now.
If you think you really have a case and you are town, go look at the previous newbie game linked and see if you notice something scummy heavenz was doing that he's replicating now. Barring that, I'm putting you in my top four scum.
Blurry... still nothing. Could have real life explanations, but I have a bad feeling he rolled scum, started working on his first post being as pro town as possible, then realized he didn't know how to follow up as scum. I want to vote for him the most out of the lurkers, to be honest.
Still nothing on the other two lurkers obviously.
Better not overdevelop towny reads at the moment, need to reread thread and see if it'd be good or bad for town to try
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On September 27 2013 01:01 Balla24 wrote: and final note on the BajaBlood suspiciousness... I don't really agree with that. He's targetting 2 quiet people, and I don't honestly think it matters which one we go after. They need to step up. That's all i have to say about that.
I agree with you here, both xIvanJ and Jayte need to defend themselves, we know that Jayte is around so I really want to know what he has to say for himself.
xIvanJ however has only made a single post so far and it doesn't seem like he is going to post any more, probably will get replaced/modkilled.
About the BajaBlood suspicion, I didn't say it was a 100% scumtell, it's just something that seemed off to me, however after reading his defense it made a decent amount of sense. I'm still keeping my eye on him though.
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@onlywounderboy, I was happy you explained yourself. Mluneth idea on what is scummy is a bit strange. In all honesty I am waiting for posts from Bereft and Blurry.
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Just posting to say don't vote xIvanJ. He'll be mod killed or replaced as others have said. Waste of our lynch with zero information on him. As for the other two lurkers, I don't know yet but I'm going through the filters again and will have a detailed post shortly.
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I like the emotion in Bereft's posts, even if I can see them translate to a scum mindset. But I like Bereft as a busy townie so far.
MLuneth or Blurry IMO. Xlvanj is just a policy lynch, Jayte said something half-way decent that is non-indicative to me.
MLuneth is trying to make cases that simply contradict pro town play, as if he's against contribution or meta information and talking about "clogging up" a thread that is only 9 pages as I'm writing this. It needs more contribution, not less.
Blurry I want to see write, and give a thought process behind his first post. And input on MLuneth.
Currently,
##Vote Blurry
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If anyone isn't going to be around for the voting deadline, please vote MLuneth if you like the case on him.
If Blurry shows up or there is any good town case on MLuneth, I would like to switch to a lurker at the end. But MLuneth's play is scummiest so far, Blurry's only very meta-scummy.
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EBWOP: For clarity, I would like to push for Blurry right now since MLuneth is still participating, but I don't want us to set our votes on Blurry and not be able to change them if he comes in with good points.
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Still doing a larger write up, about half way through the filters but I agree with Zaragon here. You'll be able to read why shortly.
I want to see Blurry participating more but until he does I'm assuming he's trying to fly under the radar as scum. He has 3.5 hours to redeem himself.
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+ Show Spoiler [Blurry] +His first post was good but not enough to give any read. I really hope he contributes something soon because his lack of participation is hurting the game and his chances of surviving the lynch.
+ Show Spoiler [playerboy345] + He's been active in trying to move discussion forward throughout the game. Feels okay to me for now.
+ Show Spoiler [heavenz] + heavenz willingness to question people's reads puts him out there more than he may want at this point if he was scum. Again, seems all right to keep around for now. He's contributing and trying to force slips out of people.
+ Show Spoiler [onlywonderboy] + owb I've read most of your LOL material. You can write and critically think. WHAT did you like about playerboy's analysis in particular? What are your opinions on the other twelve players in this game? I'm not liking the read I'm getting here.
+ Show Spoiler [stormtemplar] + stormtemplar is looking scummy to me. He writes a lot and yet says nothing. He's basically said he agrees zaragon might be town, he doesn't know about playerboy and death to all lurkers while telling others to contribute more to the thread. He's trying to misdirect and confuse discussion rather than forwarding it which I do not care for.
+ Show Spoiler [Zaragon] + Zaragon has been making similar reads to my own throughout the game and pushing for strong participation. He definitely feels more town than many others in the game. His willingness to focus on particular people could mean he's trying to get attention away from himself and the rest of the mafia but for now it's too early to say. I give him the benefit of the doubt.
+ Show Spoiler [Balla24] + Balla24 reads fairly town. He's been agreeing with heavenz and Zaragon whom I also like for the town. I could be getting fooled here and there are two mafia in their threesome. For now, there's better options to lynch though.
+ Show Spoiler [xIvanJ is useless] + One outta 13 aint too bad boys. Hopefully our replacement can play.
+ Show Spoiler [Jayte] + Could be lurking as a mafia. I just can't read him from the level of content he's put out.
+ Show Spoiler [MLuneth] + I want to call this guy scum from my gut. I really, really want to do it. But re-reading his posts just make me think he's a bit hasty and not scum at all. There are grammatical errors, shortened words and that half written post he managed to post. I dunno, he doesn't feel like mafia at this point in the game.
+ Show Spoiler [BajaBlood] + Hasn't said a lot. Could be leaning mafia, but he's okay for now.
+ Show Spoiler [bereft] + I know he said he'd be busy but why is no one mentioning his inactivity? Still, not the best candidate for a lynch.
Okay here's my summation. Blurry, bereft (who did say he would be busy), Jayte and xIvanJ are inactive. I still think we should look for a better lynch candidate for today.
I like zaragon, balla24 and heavenz contribution but I might be getting fooled because they seem to agree quite often. But hell, they're reasonable opinions. Time to see where people cast their votes.
I've read through stormtemplar's posts multiple times now. He literally says nothing in them.
Firstly, I hardly think the "Lurker topic" was irrelevant. It was the discussion starter and what was going on in the thread at the time. I hardly think you can throw that away as, rather undercutting your point about my lack of contribution.
Clogging conversation after being accused of being scum.
However, as to your point about me just joining Zaragon on playerboy, no, not at all. As a matter of fact, I'm not really feeling zaragon's read on him. I'm not getting solid town vibes out of him at all. He's contributed rather minimally. (7 of his posts are 1-2 lines with maybe a quote.)
I disagree and he's just trying to change the focus away from himself.
Until he puts up a better defense of himself #vote stormtemplar
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EBWOP: should be ##vote stormtemplar I guess. Sorry about that one. fk i hate not editing.
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One last post, sorry for clogging this up but vote dead line is in 2 hrs 45 mins.
Currently xIvanJ, Blurry and Jayte all have one vote. I stand by the fact that voting them off TODAY is the correct decision.
stormtemplar has shown scummy behavior and those three could still be town and contribute to the game. In three days I'm cool with voting them off if they're not active or they look like scum. But unless stormtemplar successfully defends himself in the next two hours I'm advocating that we lynch him.
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Unfortunately I have to be getting to work, so I'll miss any last minute deliberations. I'm going to have to ##Vote: Blurry. He's had plenty of time to defend himself so I'm not sure a least minute appeal would change my mind. He sorta flew under the radar for me, but people have pointed out his lack of contribution I agree it seems problematic.
@JonnyLaw I'll respond to your inquiry when I have more time. Short version is I liked that he was putting the time into profile everyone, not that I really agreed with all the analysis. "Great" might have been too strong of a word I suppose.
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Hmm, this voting deadline is going to be awfully inconvenient, it's 5PM CT (a.k.a. right around when I get home from work). At this point I'm pretty much giving up hope that we're going to have enough time to read posts from some of these lurkers and be able to analyze them.
At this point, I think it's best to go for the scummiest player. In case this sounds contradictory to my pushing on lurkers both in the policy discussion and my vote, my goal throughout early-mid Day 1 was to make sure there was not a consensus that lurkers would avoid getting lynched - I was hoping that fear of a policy lynch would drive a few more people back into the thread. Looks like it wasn't entirely successful..
I honestly don't have time until I get off work to go through the case on stormtemplar or look through filters myself. I will try to do this as far in advance of the time deadline as possible.
In the meantime, it's been rightfully pointed out that lynching xIvanJ is not a good move for us. In case I'm unable to get back to this thread in time, here is my next vote. ##Unvote ##Vote: Jayte
Ok I need to stop slacking... This game is going to get me in trouble, lol
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Alright, it's been almost 3 1/2 hours since my post. Still no sign of the lurkers.
@JonnyLaw I'm not sold on stormtemplar's behavior being scummy. I would like to both hear more from you about it on why you think his posts have been scummy and also stormtemplar's defense. But at this point I'm not really reading scum from his posts besides the fact that he hasn't really shared tooo much about his reads and has just been going off of others. At least he is disagreeing with people which I like.
With that said. We are almost 2 hours from voting and none of the inactive people have shown their faces. We have been asking for them to talk for 2 days now and nothing. Now which one should we lynch? Here i'm going to have to go with ##Vote: Blurry. He started off with a good 1st day post (very early in the game mind you), and then nothing for 2 days straight. Not only is this completely different from his previous game (which I don't think carries too much weight) but he just doesn't seem interested.
One last thing though. Both him and xIvan have only posted once and people are saying xIvan is probably going to get modkilled...would Blurry then also get modkilled?
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