[LURKERS] WW42- Townfolk a' Watchin

[Bobchillingworth]

Lynch Qg and Winston for talking too much while contributing little of value. Noise pollution is anti-town.

Modkill Ryan for being proud of changing his avatar while completely neglecting to add his card to his sig.

[Jkaen]

I would lynch Qg for saying dont reveal one of the items then 3 post later doing just that, plus he is chaos personified which only helps the scum faction

[Jkaen]

Do we know if scum can talk during the day? makes a big difference on how you read the players reacting

[Winston Hughes]

Man, this site loves to mislynch me. I can hardly wait for the next one, after I fail to live up to the expectations of massive scumposting raised in this game.

Anyhows, thanks for a fun time, Commodore. It seems like a really cool design and your hosting has been immaculate.

[Molach]

What a great mislynch by scum!

or alternatively...

What an idiot town!

I liked the approach to the game.

Also liked those small points as you read, I've grown to hate those long-ass multi-quote all-businesslike serious posts most guys swear by. Some of them just make my eyes hurt.

[pindicator]

I am too lazy to read through all of day 1.

Seems like town has the same thought process and went with the easy Winston lynch.

[MJW (ya that one)]

Psillycyber for being too nice. (wolfs just don't want to eat the lynch)

[Winston Hughes]

I want to say something about the way I played this and the way I was read by others.

Based on what is admittedly a very small sample, the basic assumption on this site seems to be that long, wordy analysis of the details of a post, often focused on the search for logical inconsistencies, is pretty much the only way to catch scum. But it's not. Indeed, from my perspective, much of it reads like a load of irrelevant waffle, in which it's far too easy for a scum to hide simply by joining in with the wordiness (and by being careful to avoid inconsistency).

However, I recognise that it does work for those who know what they're doing with it. The fact that I can't pull quality reads out from that kind of activity does not mean others are similarly inhibited.

But what I got lynched for in this game was just sticking to the kind of scumhunting that I know I can get results from, rather than attempting to imitate the dominant style here. Indeed, as I tried to get across in the thread, the reason I did the whole scumposting bit was that I knew it would generate clear, concise points of the type that I can work with.

Now, I'm a pretty relaxed townie for the most part, and the pride-related baggage I once carried around is more-or-less gone now. I've learned to just enjoy scumhunting as a heuristic exercise, rather than a chance to prove myself (following virtually every game in all three seasons of the mafia championship is a major cause of this - some of the play I've seen there is way beyond anything I could ever hope to match). And for that reason, I'm only annoyed at being lynched here because it prevents me carrying on in a game I was very much enjoying. I can't complain that I got lynched whilst playing my strongest town game, because the strengths of my game were more-or-less universally read as weaknesses, and in the end it's the read that matters. Here and now, it was my failure to fit in that cost town a mislynch.

But I can't help thinking how obvious it was from pretty early on that the lynch was going to be a straight choice between me and Psilly, and how this reflects a slight weakness in the site meta. At base, towning is a guessing game in which you attempt to reason out the likelihood of other players to be with you or against you. But if you treat divergence from a town archetype as the prime reason for suspicion, you block off other modes of assessing that likelihood, whilst giving the scum a predictable way to minimise their exposure.

[BRickAstley]

I am too lazy to read through all of day 1.

Seems like town has the same thought process and went with the easy Winston lynch.

This.

Didn't read everything but I liked your approach Winston. Town is always silly here.

Then again I'm the guy who does crazy stuff like faking a post restriction as town, which probably doesn't help people being wary of odd approaches.

[Molach]

I reckon town must be coming round to the realization that psilly aint no chupacabra neither. So start workin' fellas!