Oso, that is the kind of avatar that gives nightmares. Jeez.
I liked Llama's vote a lot. I don't feel like Oso has done anything suspicious or confusing, though I suppose I understand where the confusion came from. Any attempt at bandwagoning at this stage probably means the person wants to generate discussion, but scum goals can very easily be accomplished in this stage of the game, especially under the guise of trying to do the "most town" thing. Don't mistake that with the "too townie" argument, because throwing down votes that don't really make sense (Zinive's didn't really make much sense to me) makes it feel like he just wanted to advance the largest bandwagon.
As I've stated before, simply voting for the sake of voting doesn't actually stimulate discussion, except in the case of making people suspicious of you. If you intentionally did something scummy in order to get us out of the RVS, that is anti-town because it distracts from scum hunting.
Fernando, realize that "at least one post per day" is not often at all in this rule set. It is one thing if you're consistently putting out solid posts with good analysis every day, but otherwise you're not going to contribute enough for people to get a solid read on you.
I definitely feel like this is a little weird:
Fernando wrote:
are we still on RVS? i think so. then i'll VOTE: Netlava, for making 4 posts in a row with that scary avatar.
He asks this question to hedge his move. He does this in order to give himself a back door just in case what he did ended up being scummy. Now people can't come in saying "RVS is over why did you make a dumb vote?", and I don't think hedging your actions is very town.
M=W hasn't done anything to contribute to this game at all save his random vote. Granted his signature states that he isn't going to be posting on Tuesdays, it seems like he should at least post Monday night if that is the case.
PerArdua likewise has only given us a single post to work with. While it contains more than M=W's, there was no actual comments on the game itself; only an avatar related comment and answering my questions.
Shattered wrote:
I'm better than all of you, and the sooner you realize that and treat me as such, the easier this game will be.
So your 6ish posts per game day are really going to be good enough to be better than all of us? So far you're one of our weakest players. You haven't done anything constructive yet except be irritating.
Shattered wrote:
I refuse to participate in Random Voting, so let me know when you're done with that.
I haven't participated in that all game, and instead have jumped straight in to analyzing player moves and motives. If you're so great at this game, you'd be doing that yourself. Instead you take the lazy rout and demand that others do it? Definitely not a good start at all. You'd better impress me extremely quick with some very insightful analysis.
I'm a bit interested by Xine's most recent post. All she did was tell us about several of the things that have happened. Why bother to make a post with a recap? Shouldn't you analyze the events that happen and instead give us some insight as to what you think about it? Perhaps call someone out as suspicious, or ask some questions?
I've seen scum slide through the day relatively unnoticed by virtue of posting and talking about what has happened without giving much in the way of actual opinions.