killerjester wrote:
1. & 4. A "PL" is a Policy Lynch, where you propose to lynch someone regardless of alignment because their actions will only hurt the town later on.
God, people seem to be totally misunderstanding the whole concept of policy lynching. Policy lynching, for years, has meant the following:
There are certain actions which make absolutely no sense for town (that is, they either inevitably hurt the town, risk catastrophic harm to town, or at the very least don't have any benefit) or are so valuable to scum if they can get away with it, that people will lynch on sight anyone who does them. Examples include the most well-known, lynch all liars (the majority of people caught out lying about their roles are scum) lynch all claimed millers (if you don't lynch for it, it's an excellent move for scum because they've neutered the threat of cop investigation) and lynch anyone who claims Vanilla Townie when not facing impending lynch (because that really helps the scum narrow down who the ). Other examples include lynch all claimed third parties, lynch all lurkers, lynch all selfvoters... one player in the past had a lynch all claimed doctors policy, because he believed that scum were claiming doc so often, and actual town docs were killed pretty much immediately most of the time, that it made more sense just to lynch anyone who claimed doctor.
Policy lynching ABSOLUTELY DOES NOT mean you don't think the player is scum. You think he is. You think that one action he has taken is SO scummy that he's very likely to be scum just based on that. Policy lynching has the additional effects of removing derps from the game (because people who do massively antitown stuff as town are pretty much inevitably either derps or trying some weird gambit, or both) and deterring that behaviour in other players, which are positive developments, but they're not the reason you do it.
To quote JEEP, the father of lynch all liars 'Dumb or scum used to be a commonly-used phrase on site. I decided that I didn't want to assume the people I was playing with were idiots. If they did something that couldn't be rationally justified from a town perspective, I wouldn't think 'moron' I'd think 'scum.''
Lynching someone
because they're an horrifically bad player
before they've even done anything scummy is an entirely new development, has only happened once to my knowledge (to Vezok) and probably needs a new name. A blacklist lynch or something. I support policy lynching, but I've never done that, though ABR sorely tempted me back in the day.