From what I can tell the attacks on my predecessor are due to his inactivity. Well, lets have no more of that foolishness. I am here, and I am active.
"BUT URZA!" You say, "how can we possibly find someone better to lynch before deadline?"
Never fear. I am here. Up through page 9 I have some pretty good candidates for lynchinz.
First of all, I will say that I think that orto and MM (thats mach-mafia) are most likely town. This is for a couple of reasons. First of all, I really like how Orto responds to arguments against him, he's very good at pointing out logical inconsistancies and attacking where there is merit, but more importantly, I have not seen him attack where there ISN'T merit, yet. And that is a much more important town tell to me. MM I have just generally liked his play.
On my shit list are Uriel, but this is one I'm having a little difficulty with in my mind, because the things I am picking up on are either indicative of scum who knows what they are doing, or town who has no clue. He attacks things that appear out of the ordinary, without giving justification for whether or not they are SCUMMY. Remember, scummy has a very definite meaning. It is an action that a scum player is more likely to do than a town player. Therefore to see uriel jumping on those things, to me, is indicative of one or two things.
In particular the juxtaposition between post 21 and 71 is very telling, where he FOSs the self voter, while slightly condemning the actions, while trying to not actually look like he is that much attacking him. The FOS here makes no sense to me as a townie, seeing as if a player is scummy to you that early in the game, you vote for them, and if you don't, you don't attack them. Especially in the random voting stage, one would expect to see a vote as opposed to a FOS from a town player here. Thats what sets urziel apart from the rest of the people who attacked the self voter. He attacks, but doesn't put any weight behind it. Fence sitting at it's core.
His post 94, and subsequent posts on that issue, however, lend credence to the theory that he is a clueless townie. He makes a retarded (And I use retarded to have a specific meaning in mafia. That is, without motivation for either side) argument which is chock laden with wifom, and continues to talk about it, even though it clearly makes no sense at all.
Either he is attempting to appear like he is scum hunting without actually doing so which is scummy scum scummy, or he just has no clue what he is actually supposed to be doing as town, which is not not not. Either way, its the second best lynch for the day.
On the very top of the shitlist we have Clockwork ruse.
I really really REALLY don't like post 54. This is where clockwork ruse attacks a player for "defending the self voter" hell, if I were in the game then I would have been defending the self voter to. Self voting is stupid as hell, but it provides no insight at all into the alignment of a player. None whatsoever. Zip. Nada. Zilch. There is no real motivation for scum to do it that is separate from town motivation to do it, and therefore it is the definition of a NULL TELL.
Now, you might be saying to yourself "Well, a lot of people attacked the self voter...I was one of them." and this is true, but what sets clockworks actions apart is how he doesn't directly attack either player for any one thing. He attacks Orto for what clockwork did, and by proxy attacks the self voter. He clearly thinks what the self voter has done is "scummy" but doesn't vote him. This is not only dumb because in order for orto to be scum in the way clockwork is presenting the game, the self voter has to be, and since Ortos alignment is then dependant on the self voters, and not the other way around, he should be voting the self voter, but scummy because it allows him to add more pressure to the self voter wagon without actually implicating himself by it, and also allows him to poison ortos well by accusing him of things that aren't really scummy that put him on the defensive and take him off the offensive.
Secondly, a pretty big thing I look for is when players are not honestly interested in determining alignment, but are instead just looking to win the argument. Clockworks post 152 is a perfect example of this. The mischaracterization of Ortos vote "HE ADMITS IT WAS OMGUS" is pretty ridiculous, and is not something a player interested in determining orto's alignment would say. Orto quite clearly said that he was being a tad biased, and then went on to explain the nature of the vote. Clockwork IGNORES the real justification, something that if discussed might lead to information about orto's alignment, and goes straight for the jugular with a can't miss, look what stupid things he's doing he's an idiot argument. This is telling because I think there's a pretty clear divide between what a town player would do in this situation, and what a scum player would do in this situation. Psychologically, this is a pretty damn strong tell in my book.
Unvote, (if my replacee was voting) and VOTE: Clockwork ruse
