I THINK THIS DISCUSSION SHOULD HAPPEN IN GAMES AND SORTING IT OUT HERE SO WE HAVE SOMETHING TO CITE WHEN IT HAPPENS IN GAMES AS PEOPLE ARE GOING TO DO IT ANYWAY IS KIND OF POINTLESS SO I'M JUST GOING TO REFRAIN FROM GIVING AN OPINION HERE.
Um...well, I've never checked intentionally I don't think, but I have sometimes quoted posts like that (either to respond to them, or to remind myself how to do the "dice" code). Even without people intentionally checking, if you do something like that, you're caught as soon as someone quotes your post. And as the gain is so incredibly small...
I want us to win just for Yos' inevitable rant alone. -CrashTextDummie
Simenon wrote:Random Voting with dice takes away most of the relevant discussion arising from random voting.
Random votes should never be truly random.
But people are ALWAYS going to be able to get away with truly random votes: what are you going to do, institute a meta of lynching anyone who doesn't come up with a convincing joke reason for their random vote? Even if people don't use the die in thread, doesn't mean they won't outside it.
Which means remotely competent scum can always get around any possible tell in daystart games by
actually
random voting, and thus, the RVS is merely a mildly tedious convention to be finished as soon as humanly possible.
Townies should avoid using something entirely dependant on random factors for random votes. Obviously I can't do anything to stop it, but I can hope this feeling becomes the norm.
Townies should avoid using something entirely dependant on random factors for random votes. Obviously I can't do anything to stop it, but I can hope this feeling becomes the norm.
I agree.
Or, even if you are going to use random.org or whatever to vote, it's better if you leave unclear if your vote was random or not, so you have at least a chance of getting a reaction. Using dice to prove your vote was random dosn't seem really useful to me.
I want us to win just for Yos' inevitable rant alone. -CrashTextDummie
I think voting for someone based on who they choose to randomly vote because it *might* not actually be random is retarded. Therefore, until someone comes up with a reasonable replacement for the random voting stage to start off a game, I'm going to keep using dice to start off the game.
In my next game I'm going to roll the dice and then give that person immunity from my vote for the first day.
"Faust complained about having two souls in his breast, but I harbor a whole crowd of them and they quarrel. It is like being in a republic." ~Otto von Bismarck
Mastermind of Sin wrote:I think voting for someone based on who they choose to randomly vote because it *might* not actually be random is retarded. Therefore, until someone comes up with a reasonable replacement for the random voting stage to start off a game, I'm going to keep using dice to start off the game.
It is mildly scummy to vote with dice because the "Don't vote with dice" meta helps the town.