I thank you very much for your attempt at trying to explain this, CLSR, but I don't think you've managed to solve the mystery for us yet since you actually ended up with the opposite conclusion to the one Ythan made.
In post 134, Ythan wrote:I wasn't expecting you to repeat what you had said previously.
You conclude that a troll will repeat themselves, but Ythan implies he finds James is 'wrong town' and
a troll because he repeats himself.
And the fact we are still here, with this confusion, after your post and Ythan rephrasing and everything else that's happened on this is exactly my point. Ythans response to my question was that I was "being intentionally dense." I take that to mean 'the answer is so self-evident, you can't really be this stupid, and so you are play acting as not knowing the answer'.
If it takes all this, and we are still not clear in understanding how Ythan can use James repeating himself as evidence he was genuine, then was the answer really self-evident? I think clearly not, and the follow up question I am trying to solve is ‘Why does somebody try and shut a question as to their motivations' , and frankly I can't find a town reasoning for it.
The reason why I am pushing this is as I am, CLSR, is because If you have read all the way through 2068, you will remember I had a bit of a disagreement with NorweigianboyEE about a read on James (of all things!) and he gave me an explanation I didn't follow, and when I tried to follow it up, he also shut me down with the "Ok, newb." attitude. When I came back to it and said I was starting to scumlean that slot, the attitude got more pronounced (he was 'tired of spoon feeding' me, etc) whilst simultaneously posting on the scum PT that "Val could be troublesome." and suggesting I be NK'd, which is what happened. Now, in this game, I have a slot doing the same thing HARDER, and in the absence of evidence to the contrary, I'm going to consider it scummy in the same way I did previously.