Sorry for the inactivity, had to handle irl things yesterday and could only pay attention here on occasion
Comments on specific people since last time...
Leprechan
And first thing I see is leprechan is banned from the site. Lovely.
Unvote. So much for my reaction test.
Asek you'll need a sub
I
had been spending most of the day trying to figure out their motivation for their post, specifically the following:
Leprechan said:
The main thing I want everyone to take away from this (even maf) is that I think Whydon and Haruno are Not threats. Regardless of alignment and I think wasting time focusing on what they have said on day 1 is pointless.
I was wracking my brain and couldn't figure it out and so tried to garner a reaction from them with my vote. Here's my thoughts on this so far.
If Leprechan is mafia he's posting this because he doesn't want town listening to Haruno. He sees the suspicion on Whydon and thinks that's good but is concerned about Haruno's posting and uses Whydon as a shield while casting doubt on Harunos alignment - something we can see has happened with Former's recent posts. Alternatively, If Haruno and Leprechan are a scum team, this distances the pairing without requiring too strong an attack on the other.
If Leprechan is town...this was the part I was having trouble thinking about. The best I can imagine is that Leprechan thinks he has some reads on who the mafia are, doesn't think haruno or Whydon are scum, and doesn't want them to be targeted for fear of distracting the town (he implies as much in his post). Assuming prior knowledge of playerbase perhaps he also tries to deter mafia from targeting haruno who can potentially game solve in the end game.
I have significant uncertainty about this post and given that, plus the fact that we'll now be going on our third player, I have a Hand of Suspicion on this slot.
Former Hope
I like his 146 and 161, particularly his bringing up Blank Slate who had slipped under my radar as a possible target but I'm not so fond of his semi-tunnel on King. Targeting "anti-town" users is a pretty easy way to induce a mislynch if he's scum, 154 in particular reads like an appeal to emotion to get people to jump on the wagon. My gut says he's saying this from a town perspective so I town read for the moment, but final judgement is reserved.
Martin is a null-read atm, he's posting things I agree with and seemingly with a town-orientation but nothing that specifically sticks out to me as definitively town or scum. Thought I saw a scum slip in 158 but re-reading I don't see it anymore.
I can see scum teams of Whydon+Martin and Haruno+TraceOfLife/Leprechan/empty slot but otherwise I don't see the
Whydon scum tells. He's been pretty useless as far as scum hunting goes but nothing is inherently scummy. That does raise the question of whether he's trying to slide under the radar and if he'd be receiving any pressure if haruno weren't tunneling him.
Hitmonleet is back in my FoS scum pile. He looked better at the end of the day yesterday but the flip made him look more suspicious and 157 in particular smells very fishy. Asking questions that don't serve any purpose in regards to scum hunting or pressuring, regurgitating the crowd opinion on King, pushing suspicion onto a Whydon/Haruno dichotomy, that screams scum trying to look active while not adding anything beneficial.
King is totally null. I agree with arguments on both sides regarding policy lynching the anti-town player. I wouldn't be opposed to placing a vote here but I'd prefer finding a better option.
Vote Hitmonleet
