My Defense of My RQS Questions
I hope this clears up some of my intentions as to why I asked the things they did for my RQS questions. A few people have called my questions anti-town, which I don't understand. The intention of these questions was solely to get information we can ALL use later in our scumhunting efforts.
1) What are your thoughts on No Lynch as a policy?
I've read several games where toward the end of a day there's no clear lynch candidate in spite of activity and cooperation of everyone in town. There are a few people with maybe a vote or two on them, but no one so blatantly scummy to everyone in town that they can agree to lynch them by majority. My reason for asking this question was to gauge peoples' views on NL Day 1 Policy. I was in no way shape or for suggesting we employ it. I disagree with it as a policy because I agree that if there's a someone scummy enough to lynch on d1, then they shouldn't get a pass because everyone decided not to lynch D1 no matter what. But there are situations where it's called for, and I do NOT agree that just suggesting it in those circumstances should be viewed as scummy. Peoples' views on the policy will hint to their views on the idea in general, which was the information I was really after. At the beginning of the game, when you don't know who you can trust, I find that disguising your questions is the best way to get honest answers.
2) How do you feel about lynching inactives?
This question was designed to get people to give their views on inactivity (how scummy it is, how they feel the mods handle it on this site, etc) before inactivity becomes an issue. That way, later in the game when someone says someone is scummy because of their inactivity, we have a baseline to gauge the honesty of their suspicion.
3) How lurky is lurky to YOU?
This question was selfish in nature, I'll admit. I leave a window with mafiascum open a lot of the time, playing WoW, LoL, SC2, whatever, there's usually a window open with MafiaScum open. I wanted to know who was going to have a problem with this right away because that's something that I'd have to change if too many people find it to be suspicious. I understand that's a suspicious motive, but I'm just trying to be honest. I enjoy Mafia and I'm eager to see what people have to say generally.
In Conclusion
I'd like to apologize to DCJ in particular for slighting his situation in 1110 because I just about fell into the same trap in this game. The crowd is tough here, and I wasn't prepared. I feel like this game in particular is more of a popularity contest than a game of mafia, and I'm one of the goth kids at this party. Clearly I've got a tough road ahead in this game with the suspicion that's on me already, but hopefully I can change some minds. I'm going to unvote Lady because admittedly my suspicions are based on her reactions to my questions, which she clearly misunderstood the intentions of. Her reasons for suspecting what she interpreted the questions to mean was very valid and I disregarded that fact last night in our back and forth. Rather than try and explain myself, I saw it as scummy and voted accordingly. The bickering only fanned the fire.
UNVOTE: Lady Lambdadelta
Thank you.
