Something interesting to note: TGP keeps accidentally leaving multiquotes in his posts, and yet he never seems to actually make any posts with intentional use of the multiquote feature.
Perhaps he's quoting posts into a private thread? Realistically, probably not.
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In post 288, TheGoldenParadox wrote:Okay, great. I can't understand what's going on in the game right now. The posts are barely readable. That being said, I went through Lab's ISO, and all of it strikes me as someone who isn't really doing anything to help the gamestate, but trying very hard to look like he is. I'll make a case in a bit, but for now
VOTE: LabRat01.
I don't see anybody trying to develop a consensus on the dance mechanic, but people should be dancing as much as possible. We need those PTs.
I do think town is more likely than scum to be frustrated with an "unreadable" game thread, or with various spam. I would imagine that scum confronted with the same problem would simply find the easiest thing they could sheep and put little effort into actually attempting to read the thread. A frustration with an unreadable thread does show an actual desire to
read the thread
in the first place, which I believe is town-indicative.
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In post 372, TheGoldenParadox wrote:LabRat to me is looking like she's playing with antitown motivation. As scum, the point in this game is to lynch any townie - it doesn't matter who. I see her "working hard", and her posts are good. But there's no town motivation in them. She doesn't seem like she's trying to scumhunt - she seems like "hey, look, I'm town!" by posting a ton of content, maybe, but look at her posts. The intent of those posts is not to scumhunt. The intent of those posts is not to help town find scum, because in that bod of posts, there is a air of knowing, being informed, of whom town is. That's the vibe I'm getting. But none of this matters NOW, for the simple reason that...
AP offered to dance with me, and RIGHT NOW I hate that. So... no. I can't see the town motivation in that. That is blind sheeping. No.
Reject Dance
VOTE: AP
I don't feel like much thought was placed into the rejection of the dance offer here, which does make me consider it scum-indicative.
Even if you consider that someone offering to dance with you is scum, it is still the case that if you pair with them you will become lovers with them. If you believe your lynch is imminent, pairing with someone whom you believe to be scum is actually your best course of action. If you reject the offer and lose the gladiate, it's the worst possible outcome: you get lynched and your scumread lives. Even further, pairing with someone who is scum will presumably mean that, as long as you aren't lynched, you will never be killed during the night. Given that, I think "this dance offer was scummy and so I'm going to reject it" is an oversimplified thought process.
@TGP
, I would appreciate if you could go a little more in-depth as to your thought process when it came to rejecting the dance offer. As it stands, it doesn't seem to me like you put much thought into it at all.
This is a large point of contention that I'd like resolved before deciding where to vote.