Okay, I want to finish up on my exchanges with novice, Commodore, and Gaspar for now and move on.
I asked novice about his vote tally post and his non-mention of his vote for Gaspar making a small wagon, and he's responded to my questions and explained his Gaspar vote as bandwagoning for the sake of bandwagoning. I feel this exchange is resolved. Some people think novice's original tally post was scummy but I don't feel anything in my exchange with novice makes him more scummy than he already was given that post.
I asked Commodore to give more justification for voting for Meiz for low-content despite others also having low content. Here's the original Commodore vote post and his response to me. Forgive me for multiple quotes, they're all short
There's some differences between these explanations but given they're one-line posts it's not realistic for Commodore to provide every possible explanation or qualification. I still think that the justification for the original vote itself (versus why he picked Meiz versus other low-contenters) is a stretch, but I generally feel this exchange is resolved and again Commodore isn't more scummy than he was after his vote, even if he's more scummy to me than baseline.
Finally I asked Gaspar basically the same question. Unlike Commodore (Meiz vote) and novice (Gaspar vote) he did not point to a desire to consciously bandwagon to drive discussion but rather doubled down on the vote being justified in and of itself:
Based entirely on the uninquisitiveness Day 1. So here's my response to Gaspar and where things currently sit:
I'm not trying to tunnel here. I'd sincerely like an answer to this. If Gaspar can look at where the state of the game was when Meiz made his four posts and point out a specific opportunity "awesome villager" Meiz passed up then I'll consider this settled. But what it looks like to me is a wolf-Gaspar picked someone with lots of posts and who was getting a little heat and piled on without taking the time to read closely enough to know whether there was any actual substance for Meiz or anyone else to scum-hunt on when the vote was put out there. Because why does Gaspar need to read those posts closely...he already knows who the wolves are
I asked novice about his vote tally post and his non-mention of his vote for Gaspar making a small wagon, and he's responded to my questions and explained his Gaspar vote as bandwagoning for the sake of bandwagoning. I feel this exchange is resolved. Some people think novice's original tally post was scummy but I don't feel anything in my exchange with novice makes him more scummy than he already was given that post.
I asked Commodore to give more justification for voting for Meiz for low-content despite others also having low content. Here's the original Commodore vote post and his response to me. Forgive me for multiple quotes, they're all short
(September 30th, 2020, 15:46)Commodore Wrote: <I'm happy to already see pods forming! All about flavor posts so far but Meiz has been posting enough that I'd like to see some mild looking at least. Still would like more lurkers to talk though!>
(October 1st, 2020, 07:19)Commodore Wrote: <It's wise to form pods! Meiz was the contentless one with a train already forming, gives us something to talk about.>
There's some differences between these explanations but given they're one-line posts it's not realistic for Commodore to provide every possible explanation or qualification. I still think that the justification for the original vote itself (versus why he picked Meiz versus other low-contenters) is a stretch, but I generally feel this exchange is resolved and again Commodore isn't more scummy than he was after his vote, even if he's more scummy to me than baseline.
Finally I asked Gaspar basically the same question. Unlike Commodore (Meiz vote) and novice (Gaspar vote) he did not point to a desire to consciously bandwagon to drive discussion but rather doubled down on the vote being justified in and of itself:
(October 1st, 2020, 00:58)Gaspar Wrote: Vote Meiz - Based entirely on how uninquisitive he was on day 1. Meiz is an awesome villager, when he's not being an awesome villager, I'm suspicious.
Based entirely on the uninquisitiveness Day 1. So here's my response to Gaspar and where things currently sit:
(October 1st, 2020, 01:41)sunrise089 Wrote: *You don't like vote analysis and want to focus on tone. Fine. But somehow the game has to generate enough substance Day 1 to have tone to talk about. For you that's Meiz's contributions relative to baseline - him "not being an awesome villager." So when specifically was he supposed to start taking the game seriously? What damning post was his scum-dar ignoring? Because it sure didn't seem like your scumdar was doing much of anything until you voted Meiz. Was he supposed to vote for himself?
I'm not trying to tunnel here. I'd sincerely like an answer to this. If Gaspar can look at where the state of the game was when Meiz made his four posts and point out a specific opportunity "awesome villager" Meiz passed up then I'll consider this settled. But what it looks like to me is a wolf-Gaspar picked someone with lots of posts and who was getting a little heat and piled on without taking the time to read closely enough to know whether there was any actual substance for Meiz or anyone else to scum-hunt on when the vote was put out there. Because why does Gaspar need to read those posts closely...he already knows who the wolves are
