↑ gossamer wings wrote:Why is this scummy? His playstyle differs from yours and he tends to hunt scumteams rather than individual scum.
Because it betrays a lack of town motive. Town wants to get their suspects lynched. Not prioritising makes you less effective at doing that.
Also, you can't just go 'His playstyle is to hunt entire scumteams on page two.' That is insane, no-one in their right mind would consider that an effective way to scumhunt.
There are plenty of players who never provide cases or reasons for their reads and in my experience, the ones that tend to provide lots of reasoning as town also provide lots of reasoning as scum. He was also trying to sort me to see if I agreed with his reads and why. Why is this alignment indicative?
Because providing your reasoning is, again, something you do if you want people to join you on a wagon. If you aren't trying to convince other people to vote with you, then you aren't really trying to proactively catch scum. Combine the first two points, and you've got a player who seems not to care whether anyone else votes with him or not. Sometimes, people have playstyles that involve doing lots of antitown things - chronic lurkers, no-explanation guys like Chamber. It's one things to make allowances for how these specific guys are acting and to consider it relative to that player's 'normal.' That doesn't mean you should never vote players for doing these things when you have no meta on them at all (which is the case with me and 4T) because literally any scumtell could be part of an individual's playstyle.
As I said above, I misspoke here - the post I was talking about was made by CuttyShark. #312. I don't particularly want to talk about this, though.
I read your MD article on why wagoning newbies early on is bad for the game. I doubt FT has and I wouldn't expect him to draw the same conclusions that you did. Although I don't follow his reasoning there either.
Right, so this is the thing. I expect anyone who sees a post to think 'Why would town do that? Why would scum?' There's a difference between
expecting FourTrouble to see things the way I do
and expecting FourTrouble to think about whether there's actually any reason to think that scum, in particular, would do that.
He might disagree with me that declining to wagon Lissa there is the best town play. He should at least consider that I might believe that to be the case.Also, please note the single strongest point against FourT, which is the stuff about his reaction to 5-Off.
