DDDP, who quoted Amished wrote:For those of you that don't know what's going on; I've basically come up with a scumtell that if you *criticize* who you replaced in; you're scum. This is a refinement from what I had it (if you read your replacement at all you were scum); but this seems to cover all the instances where I've seen/remember it. If you're town, you really don't have to worry about your predecessor as you know they're town; but if you think that they're scummy; then you're scum. As town, you know that you're not scummy and don't deserve criticism at all.
Quite frankly it's a shit tell on a general and personal level IMO because A.) town players can and probably will still criticize their predecessors as much as scum, which defeats the purpose of it being a scumtell, and B.)Personally, I don't care if I'm town or scum, if I see something to criticize, I will criticize no matter my role. Obviously it won't be in a way to undermine my wincon for my team, but you get my point.
I don't deny that it's worked before (though it definitely is better than the original where talking about your replacment was the scumtell), but I have very little faith and trust in it's accuracy to view it as a viable scumtell to be used against anyone.
