Ojanen wrote:@Wall-E
Your vote on Idiotking page 8, unvote page 9. Please explain thought process. What made you say "Hm. Interesting" in your unvote post?
Kreriov wrote:Yeah Noob, that is the biggest problem with day 1, everything is supposition and accusation with little or no backing. If I say I hate it for that reason will that be ok?
A quick, unnecessary claim is not supposition. It is concrete evidence. True or not, its also a bad move to claim with no real reason. Actually, I also do not like some of the following
Wall-E wrote:@yellowbunny and anyone thinking I'm good at this game: omg fffff ahahahahaha No I suck. One thing I have going for me is bull-headed stubbornness, which is often a trait of experts, but rest assured it's a by-product of my single-mindedness and not skill.
That's not to say I haven't caught my fair-share of scum in my day, though I'd attribute that more to my understanding of logic.
Anyway, this is going to take some undoing, but I'm down.
As I've tried to explain, it's a common error for me, since I'm typically in five or six games at a time, once in a while one slips through the cracks
Ok, so you are not an expert at this game and yet you are in 5 or 6 games at once. Even if you are not an expert, you should know better than to claim to quickly.
Having said all this, I am still going to do this
unvote
I already have limited time and access on the weekends, this Sunday is Palm Sunday, and I do like Wall-Es willingess to admit 'this is going to take some undoing'. I look forward to reading the resulting discussion on Wall-E and Cubarey in particular on Monday! Enjoy the weekend all.
I don't like this post. Nothing has changed (I'm still scum) but an unvote regardless.
The World No.1 Noob wrote:
You think that the case agains Wall-E has the most merit...? I disagree wholeheartedly. In my opinion the only substantial thing we've seen has been from cubarey.
Well, lets exchange our opinions:
I think
the cubarey case isn't too strong
simply because his joining date says the 22nd of March 2009...that's certainly not enough time to even have finished one game.
I think he's trying a bit too hard to fit in.
I've quite a few other small suspicions which again I've eliminated until further evidence comes up:
I find it odd how X and Idiotking seems to come to a mutual understanding, of how the other person was just trying to generate discussion, so fast
I also find Leu and you a bit odd in certain places of that debate but I'll save why for now so not all my methods of observation will be known this early in the game.
Wall-E's case is much more interesting, its little pick ups like this that in my opinion are much more important.
Another one. Is Cubary scum or not, W1N?
I don't like how in 129 Ojanen gives X a pass to attack without justifications and use rhetoric at-will. Ojanen has posted very little useful scumhunting and he's buddying to X who appears to be obvtown in this game so-far (except that he's backed off IK which I dislike).
Ojanen in 129 wrote:X's questions to Idiotking before the NATURAL IMPULSE post:
X wrote:Simply trying to please? Trying to blend in? I'll bite. Unvote: Wall-E. Vote: Idiotking.
X wrote:Guilty conscience, maybe?
X wrote:How did I miss this? Going along with the flow because you don't want people to look at you is the worst reason to go along with the flow. That is actually the scummiest thing I've seen so far. Quite honestly, it's not anything significant, but my best lead right now.
None of these are questions that have meaningful answers, this is rhetorical provocation to get some reactions going. (Not saying anything against that, I like X so far, at least he's been tickling people to get something going)
From post 90
CUBAREY wrote:
Why would the Natural impulse be to call him scum? He was not accusing you he was asking for you to explain your vote. Moreover, such a question is not a witchhunt its a request for information. Any innocent player would have viewed it as such. A guilty player however would have the "Natural impulse" to cover his own guiltiness by calling the request for information an attempt " to get me in trouble on baseless evidence
So this is a misrepresentation of the interaction and the nature of the questions. They were not "requests for information".
From his last post
CUBAREY wrote:
First day lynches are almost always semi-random by definition. Someone says something that seems suspicous, someone else calls him on it and if he/she does not respond with an appropriate answer the original poster finds himself with a couple of votes, if there are no other likely targets people start to join the wagon (either becuase they have no firm suspicions themselves or they are scum and want townies to die). I thought your reaction was over the top and you stating that it would be a "natural response" to call someone scum for asking you for an explaination a possible tell. At this point I stick by my initial read of you.
This is more of the same, and stating previous experience but at the same time ignoring that OMGUS is a really common gut reaction to provocation. Also shows that despite everyone who commented on disagreeing CUBAREY didn't seem to go and check again what actually happened, or else he's misrepresenting on purpose.
Otoh, it's interesting to see how Idiotking's way of responding to this last Cubarey post is now quite different from what he was like before. He's merely defending himself, not questioning Cubarey anymore.
X's reaction was interesting. He's been tunneling on me the whole game, and here I noted a connection between him and IK.
Unvote: Vote: X
ISO 1: He random-votes me. I'm always suspicious when someone random-votes a player and then conveniently that person becomes their #1 scum suspect. It's a big coincidence pill to swallow. (smallville rocks)
ISO 9: Mentions me again, now taking a fence-sitty position on me.
ISO 12: Claims I'm adding no content despite the fact that I am.
ISO 13:
X wrote:Wall-E is scummy for twice “forgetting” about the thread even while posting about not hitting the Watched Topics button. Plus, he hasn’t lifted a finger to find scum.
I dislike 13 because of the word, "Plus." A psychologist once told me that if I wanted to lie effectively I should give only one excuse when making an excuse for something, because the tendancy is for people to give two or more reasons, stringing them together with 'alsos' and 'besides.' X here looks like he's excusing himself from future attacks, and he gives two reasons. Minorest of minor points here, since I try to steer away from trying to find scum by reactions. This one popped out at me though.
ISO 15: He quotes someone else's defense of him in response to my "baiting" post and then goes on to vaguely respond to it. He follows that up with an appeal to emotion: "Wall-E, if you had done any of those attacks in 761 you would have been modkilled."
X in ISO 16 wrote: I am a logic-gamer who judges reactions. So basically, I look at a cause-reaction pair. If there's a reason that scum would have that reaction more than town, I note it (and usually announce it). Sometimes I'll probe further because of such a reason. But I have specific things to point to when I suspect/accuse someone. I never base my opinions on "vibes" - I just don't get them.
X in ISO 15 wrote:Hi! And as for attacking indiscriminately, that's how I try to get reactions from everyone. Judging reactions is how you can really find scum. Scum attack discriminately.
The contradiction here is telling, imo. Do you look for reactions (or "vibes" as some call them) or do you analyze plays?
ISO 20 and 21: He revisits IK and seems overly interested in IK's status. I think X is IK's partner, but I'm only about 20% sure.
Unvote: Vote: IdiotKing
and
FoS: X