In post 659, Toogeloo wrote:I forget what that scumtell is called, but I know it's a thing lol.
It
is
a thing, but the Rule of Three is, explicitly, a post-flip tell. It is not a scumtell in of itself, because
every
player can and SHOULD have a scum grouping of 3-5 players. Because no fucking shit, that's the size of the scumteam and any town player failing to have that number of people they think are suspicious is failing as a scumhunter.
It only becomes a tell when you have a scum player flipped, and analyze their posts; if there is a group of 3-5 players, which you have very good reason to suspect is mostly town, named as suspicions...then the name you see that isn't a suspected town is, quite likely, scum. And sometimes (though not as reliably) you can invert it such that if you have two flipped scum and one of them had a group of 3-5 players with the other flipped scum included as a scumread, it can be reason to name the rest in there town.
The rule of three is also extremely playstyle dependent and situational in that it is no hard fast tell; more scum utilize it than don't, but they are perfectly capable of subverting it, e.g. heavily bussing (putting more than the expected number of scum in), heavily anti-bussing (putting no scum in and hoping the town doesn't clear the players pushed).