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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.

↑ ThursdayAngel wrote:@BB: What is this "amished tell" you mentioned in the graveyard QT?

It's based off of people replacing into a game and getting a scum PM. What's the first thing you do? Reread your predecessor to see how screwed you are. Town, however, has no reason to reread their predeccesor(generally) as they know they were town so who cares.

The amish tell is whenever someone insults their predecessor, they are scum. This only works when:
A. They've never heard of the amish.
B. It's not part of their playstyle.

Examples:

LGC wrote:Gah. 17 pages in one sitting wasn't great. Should've put this up earlier, guys, apologies for that; got caught by some jobs... From reading the thread, it looks like I'm in deep shit because of Fathom's lurkiness and not adding content.

LostGirlChan, Mafia Goon - Lynched Day One

See here, then here.

Here's an explanation from Amished himself.

Voided can say whatever he wants, I've had pretty good success with it.

Already did, BB. *smiles*

Anyways, guys, I did enjoy this, even if I"m still irked that this was a game that we should've. I'd like to play with both of you again, so just keep an eye out for my name on the SE list so we can be in a game together sometime!