In post 48, 2Create wrote:
Wow holy shit, are you really doing this? Big FOS.
Have you heard of OMGUS? Because this is pretty much it, save for the fact that I didn't actually vote you.
You know, I thought about doing it, but I decided that reads this early on aren't so reliable as to make that worthwhile.
I also dislike voting, and I didn't see the need to put any pressure on, because all I really did was ask you to elaborate. But you're slowly changing my mind by making my read on you more reliable.
Okay, let's pick apart your post now.
I already said why it's a non-answer, so I'm going to skip over that. Next up is your question why I picked the answers to that particular question to dissect.
The answer is simple. Questions 1 and 2 are meta. Question 3 is irrelevant. Question 4 is neither of those things.
Yes, people can lie about how they play. But if someone plays substantially different than what they've said, that's weird, right? So the answer to that question might actually have some repercussions, such as forcing people to be more active. It's a bad thing to say you're a lurker. It's also a bad thing to say you're an active scum hunter and then lurk. So in a sense, getting people to actually go into a bit of detail here might well be a good thing.
As for what I expected it to tell? Not much, really? Just a general outline of your playstyle. That's not a hard thing to accomplish. But what you're doing is not even that. In fact, I'm not even that concerned with the actual answer, just with the way you chose to answer it. Everyone else has given at least something to go by, and moreover, they've been succinct about it.
This is where we get to your post. There has been no one who's said as little while seeming to say as much. And this is a scummy thing. Often, scum will try to dodge questions by seeming to answer them, while giving a non-answer. This is not an important question by any stretch of the imagination, but the fact that you're doing it at all is suspicious.
No comment on the "eye for detail" thing, since I've elaborated in the very post you quoted, and also since it's a lot more substantive than what you have posted. With my answer at least, you might get suspicious of me if I miss or ignore too many obvious tells. With yours, all bets are off.
Good luck finding more than minor reasons for a scumread halfway on page 2 by the way. You've made 2 posts before that. What do you really think I have to go on? I've said with as many words that my reads are not reliable this early on. Why are you making such a big deal out of being placed on my scumlist? Seems like a knee-jerk reaction, which I don't look fondly on, hence my OMGUS accusation.
I'll get to your posts soon, Ejji. Just wanted to get this out of the way first.
