Alright Vi I'll demonstrate the purpose of the questions and then we're DONE with this, k?
1) Has lots of interesting uses. It can catch scum. In Comedy of Whims (a UPick), a player said he received his first choice. His wiki page then revealed that he really wanted to be SK really bad because he had some new hawt SK strategy he wanted to try. He flipped SK. Granted, it's less relevant here because that game was a TRUE UPick, but it's still valuable. It can also provide "interesting information," as you called it, such as the fact that more people wanted to be scum than town (a la SensFan's comment).
2) If a player picks a target and say he's a "VI" or something, it's useful to know he had a pre-existing vendetta against that player should a wagon form down the roead. If a player chooses a target but gives little/no justification, then it shows they are willing to take risks by shooting into the dark. If they choose no target, it shows they are not a risk-taker. Knowing whether a player is a gambler is relevant in lots of ways, the most obvious being when looking at whether they are prone to bussing or not. (note, question 4/5 augments the results from this question).
3) This question analyes how far a player is willing to go to win and how used to lying they are. Generally, people with stronger conciousnesses are worse liars.
4/5) This question analyzes two things. First, once again, it analyzes risk-taking. But why ask a question with the same motivation twice? ...to determine whether a player conciouslly checks to see whether they are contradicting themselves. If someone will fire blindly into the dark on question two but will only split the money 50/50 here, it demonstrates they make decisions on an ad-hoc basis and don't have a consistent decision-making calculus. Given how frequently "contradicting" is used as a scumhunting tool, this is very useful information to have.
Obviously, none of these questions is going to produce a slam-dunk psychological profile. However, no "read" in mafia ever is. Every little bit of information pieces together to provide a larger, more useful picture. The questions could end up being useful. Worst case scenario, they aren't, and no tears were shed because they were only 5 of them and they didn't take that long to answer anyway.
Soo that's that.
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The Stove wrote:The only relevant question is the first one, and I get why AGar would want to check in first about whether or not we should answer it. I personally don't care.
I'm done reading, got a headache. I'll let AGar throw the vote down but I let him know my preferences lie in: Tanstalas / Starbuck / Katsuki / KDub / xRx / Sen
Pre-empt off the bat - If you use eachother as an excuse to lurk I will choke a bitch. Also, why are Starbuck and xReck scum? Rest of list is decent (ESP SENSFAN).
Jack wrote:That doesn't make any sense. Picking orange 2nd is obviously just a throwaway choice. So did you lie about the color choice?
I agree with this, SpyreX should be on perma-radar. However, Vi also makes a good point later about scumteams being super strong, so I think SK-lynchage should be on the backburner.
dramonic wrote:@Sens vs MoI: Scummalicious =D
now which is scummier, the guy who goes ''woe is me, the mod hates me and is out to smite me because he's nothing better to do'', or the one going ''Since the person you are replacing is likely to be town, and you say he chose scum and say you are town, you must be scum!''...
Which is scummier, person one + no other content or person two + content?
tans wrote:
If there is say a scum team of red and another of yellow with say 2 and 3 or 3 and 3 on each team then I see no reason why they wouldn't know of each other. They are the same mafia group, just split up because there are two 'scum' colors.
Guderian wrote:Do you honestly believe this, or are you just saying this? I think the mods have confirmed themselves that each color is 4 people. Does this make any sense at all when you think about it? For one, why would the mods unbalance the two scum teams and then let them know eachother, but then split them up... its just making my head hurt. Circular logic.
Would you mind giving me three bullet points (can be only a sentence) about why Kdub has done actions leading you to believe he is anti-town.
Kdub, the same. Or just links to posts that you consider influential for people to read regarding him.
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Vote: tans
This explanation is bad and looks like a cover to wagon hop. Please try again, preferrably using your own suggested "three bullet" method.
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xReck wrote:unvote vote nopointinactingup
This vote and the preceding case are excellent, I approve.