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Post Post #10 (isolation #0) » Fri Nov 16, 2007 12:50 pm

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Simenon wrote:
IH wrote:Seems that the act of dice voting itself can spark discussion.
But that discussion is limited to "why are you dice voting", which is a discussion not worth having that often.
Agreed. Dice-roll voting is a post not worth making, and is a waste of space. I often think it's an excuse not to think or to try (or both).
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Post Post #37 (isolation #1) » Mon Nov 19, 2007 12:11 pm

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Seol wrote:Random voting isn't the issue here, sometimes you don't always have a reason and if your vote
is
arbitrary, it's not necessary to make up a "joke reason". Dice tags are different, you're saying in public "here is my vote which I
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has no basis for reasoning behind it and is therefore meaningless". It's distancing yourself from your actions before you've even taken them.
Agreed - sometimes you can get a sense (albeit a slight one) of someone's townness/scumness based on how they random vote at the beginning. (Most frequently, it's a sense of town-likeliness.) Dice voting prevents this potential read, and it is decidedly anti-town to negate a possible (even if slight) town read on yourself.
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Post Post #46 (isolation #2) » Tue Nov 20, 2007 8:07 am

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Oman wrote:Dice voting is good.

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Whats the problem? Random votes don't do shit,
I don't think you've been reading, and/or you have yet to grasp the subtle nuances of mafia tells and townie tells.
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