Posted: Fri May 11, 2018 1:36 pm
northsidegal replaces Alciel.
I would like to note that while this is an RVS vote, this also is an L-1 vote. The people on the RVS Harambey wagon are: Draynth (#6), Vulcan (#9), Ofrhz (#12), and Alciel (21). Honestly, this is probably all irrelevant information, it is just something to note. (It is also a good lesson to at least glance at the thread before placing a vote though that does kinda defeat the purpose of RVS being "random".)Alciel wrote:hello
VOTE: Harambey
Looking at this again, this is a bit more than I expected. Now, I think it is still safe to say for the most part that Alciel's vote could still be considered RVS; however, if Alciel had read some of the thread beforehand, they would have probably noticed that their vote would be L-1, or at the very least, they would have noticed that Harambey already had a fairly large wagon. Again though, this is more or less not indicative of alignment.Alciel wrote:He didn't state a reason so I voted for him, same reason why you're asking me thid. Didn't state mine since no one really asked him why for his vote.
Yeah, but the threat of being lol-lynched is generally enough to get conversation going.Etromin wrote:I'm not really sure the wagon here is actually putting pressure on, though, because it's clearly a pressure wagon surely that defeats the purpose?
Okay, one other thing I want to note about this post is that again, it is a L-1 vote. The reasoning isn't necessarily good, but it isn't necessarily bad/unreasonable either. Mainly, it is simply a bit on the thin side.Nachomamma8 wrote:Vote: Harambey180
I think the fact that he hasn't posted yet is strange. He's been active onsite for a while after the L-1 wagon formed, and I think that it's likelier that he is scum who is avoiding posting for a little while in the hopes that what's mostly just a baseless wagon will die out than town who saw the wagon form and had nothing to say/could find nothing to address.
I mean, it is a reach, but one reason to 'defend' yourself would be because scum can (and occassionally have, esp. newbies trying to play the newbie lynchbait card) lolhammer. That aside, I don't think you really had anything to defend against, so I think staying silent probably is the best move here actually--it makes you not appear super jumpy or paranoid. At the same time, I disagree that staying silent denies scum information that will help them and that won't help town, yet I don't find this line of reasoning unreasonable.Harambey wrote:Why would I try to 'defend' myself against a wagon this early on? By staying silent I also won't give scum more information / opportunities to throw more shade in me. And the more I talk, the more I'm putting myself in a losing position based on the past. Because of how I verbalize things, I guess.
How exactly is this odd? So far, Alciel's voting reasons seem reasonable even if a bit on the stretch side. (If this is answered later in the thread, you can ignore this question.)Harambey wrote:Alciel's post #29 is really odd and I don't get what point he's trying to bring across.
Despite what I said earlier, with each post Alciel makes, Alciel's original vote becomes worse...Alciel wrote:His vote didn't have a reason compared to others that at least posted something though nothing concrete, it's my first game and I'm still testing the waters, I'm also waiting if someone would question my lack of reasoning since I don't know if not giving reasoning is that common or not.
This comes across as super accusatory; I'm not sure though how I would interpret it from an alignment perspective.Draynth wrote:VOTE: Ircher
You don't buy vulcan having a strong townread on Crepppy for it, I don't buy you not getting that vulcan wasn't serious
Sure, I agree it was awkward, butVulcan wrote:I'llhop onthe Ircher wagon. It'sSUPER awkwardto take me seriously there.
VOTE: Ircher
First of all, Harambey is an SE meaning they are experienced. Even if you disagree with their initial defense for not speaking, his later postsVulcan wrote:I still got my eye on Harambe though. Perhaps he clammed up when the wagon gained momentum.I can see scum!Harambe being like "Oh shit! They took me to L-1 already!" And not knowing what to say.But we canalways wagon him later if need be. For now, let's examine Ircher.
Where does the notion that the wagon will instantly jump to L-1 come from?Harambey wrote:Probably scum will be on the Ircher wagon bcuz going from 0 votes to L-1 during V/LA will probably give an awkward response from Ircher.
If you agree, why do you not move your vote elsewhere? (Perhaps back on Harambey who you apparently scumread since they were around at the time...)Vulcan wrote:Harambe has a point. Wagoning him when he's gone is pointless.
I really disagree when the vote in question has a high likelihood of being an RVS vote. "Hello" reinforces the idea that the vote in question is an RVS vote. Now, a question for you--while your reasons seemofrhz wrote:No, it wouldn’t be the same. A naked vote indicates some level of comfort with the vote because the person didn’t feel the need to defend it. But tacking on a “hello” indicates that the person didn’t feel comfortable naked voting yet felt like they had to say something, but couldn’t come up with anything less lighthearted than hello. It’s awk
This doesn't even address the primary focus of Nacho's read; it addresses the side-issue of the Harambey vote. Also, he didn't necessarily say that it began a serious vote, just that it became a serious vote after some time. (See your 53; you strongly suggest that Harambey is a scumread for you.)Vulcan wrote:Are you for real? Seriously, I didn't think that hard about it. It was RVS. As I said before, a wagon formed on page 1 is bound to dissolve. It's not even a good way to put pressure on scum because they know it's RVS.
I am just going to point out that mafia is hardly a black-and-white game, and that there is almost certainly more ways than the two you suggested to interpret your earlier statements.Vulcan wrote:There are two ways to interpret my earlier statements. As you have done, putting all sorts of motives in where there are none -OR- as someone who is pretty much clueless, moving his votes around because he has NO INFORMATION to go on.
To be quite honest, I am not sure where you were planning to go with this....Etronim wrote:Here's somthing I don't get: why make the joke in the first place? It doesn't seem necessary and trying to crack non-obvious jokes on page 1 seems to be a bit of a stupid/risky thing to do.
It was a gut read; the way it came across seemed a bit suspicious.Draynth wrote:"A somewhat suspicious leap onto my wagon"
I was the first vote and you literally say the reasoning is valid
I wouldn't call it forced, although I would call it reachy, esp. later on.Draynth wrote:It's because it feels like a forced scumread to me.
In my opinion town are generally less likely to misinterpret what vulcan said. This is all purely based on my own experiences though.
I think you are at this point.Draynth wrote:I acknowledge that a lot of scum won't be willing to back down like this but it also feels like scum realising the pressure they're drawing as a result of a push (see post below)
Maybe I'm just searching for reasons to scumread ircher here
Probably because you hit the submit button thrice... Here's a tip: don't press the submit button multiple times if it is slow to submit; you will simply submit the post multiple times.Draynth wrote:Why in the world did that post 3 times
Okay, but you are still voting Alciel and haven't really elaborated on why that is the case given the above statement.ofrhz wrote:Yeah I think L-1 votes especially can be uncomfortable to drop because of how much scrutiny they can receive, and I think by saying hello, you were trying to mitigate that discomfort. It gutpinged me as scummy tbh. I do concede this is may be more personality indicative than scum indicative though
This is weak imo.ofrhz wrote:townreading this for the defensiveness mixed with disbelief. Also the “didn’t think that hard about it” is kinda towny
I don't agree with it, but since both you and ofrhz think the same here, I guess I ought to elaborate, yes? So, the reason why I don't find it towny is because 1) it didn't address the case presented against Vulcan really (their read progression) and 2) scum can, have, and will use AtE arguments, and this is definitely one of them. Even if I were to concede that the post was null (which I'm not necessarily doing by the way), I don't see how pursuing an aggressive tone registers as town-indicative.Draynth wrote:I agree with this, I think scum are very careful and will do their best to think hard about every post they make
You know, I love how Vulcan pretty much ignores this, though I am almost certain they were still on when I made this post. (7:45 PM for their post versus 7:53 PM for my post.)Ircher wrote:Do you consider the above to still be the case; i.e.: do you still scumread me based on the above or is your vote now for a different reason?
This really wouldn't help get the game going, but I appreciate the effort in keeping the game active.Harambey wrote:What would you say if someone asked you about the most important part of mafia?
More or less at the time. Is there any particular reason you ask?ofrhz wrote:Are you still scumreading vulcan for his jump onto your wagon?
I don't have any major qualms with the rest of your read on me (in part because I think it is reasonable and partially true); however, this part of your read is playstyle-related and thus null. (If anything, changing my mind occasionally is more likely a towntell than a scumtell for me, but I think we'll just keep this at null.)Harambey wrote:To keep the rest short, plenty of his posts are very short and Ircher seems to change their mind occasionally.
Oh come on, we all apply double standards at times. I think you are reading into hypocrisy a bit too much.Harambey wrote:Nonetheless, putting others in the spotlights by blaming them for lurking, while Draynth himself has already lurked more than 1 1/2 days on three occasions so far, is very suspicious to me.
I mean, I'm leaning towards town on you right now, but I think your activity this game could actually be described as active lurking, which is worse than just lurking. I say this because you seem to be in the thread semi-regularly (maybe not regularly, but more than some other lurkers), yet whenever you post, I don't feel like you are bringing too much more to the game and are being a bit on the passive side. (I mainly townread you for gut-related reasons, so it isn't a really strong read at all.)Draynth wrote:Saying that I'm lurking in the same way that ventril, alciel or etromin are lurking is completely unfair.
Eh, sorry, I'll try to remember that in the future.In post 201, Huntress wrote:The colours used in post 199 cannot be easily read with the MafSilver theme.
Fair statement, Harambe, though I think you'll see I do better as the game progresses. Early in the game I do tend to stick to other townies, what I guess is called "sheeping"... I'm new but have been told I'm okay at the game. My losses outnumber my wins at this point, but I won my last two games (not only that, but survived all the way through). Each game I play, I get better.In post 154, Harambey180 wrote: vulcan because his posts still don't appear to me like he's playing that well. I want to help him improve his skills by voting him because that's an experience you'll have to learn at some point. Purely game-wise, his posts don't add that much new and he seems to follow the others around a bit. I don't quite like that.
Reads incoming. Just finished an ISO of everybody. I lean scum on Ircher and Harambe atm, see below for my reasoning.
Why didn't you vote for Ircher in this post? Because based on what you wrote here, this should have been followed up with a vote on him.In post 142, Ventriloquist wrote:Upon rereading I am learning towards Vulcan and Draynth's logic on this one, seems like mafia would want to miscontrue information and this clearly was dry humour. Maybe an attempt to justify voting for someone else when the reasoning is pretty thin.
This read is very shallow. It doesn't take into account anything Harambey did after the RVS wagon, nor does it explain how Harambey's response was contrived. I feel like Harambey has explained his initial silence during RVS?? And he has contributed a lot more to this game after the first 2 pages, so it's lazy how your read is formed entirely on this one thing.In post 212, vulcan logician wrote:Harambe: Lean scum. This is mostly gut. I like that he is contributing and keeping the game alive and for that reason, maybe he's better to examine on day 2. That will give him some time to show his townie colors too (if he has any). I don't like gut reading people, but really what struck me was his silence when the L-1 wagon formed on him. Of course, even scum know that a page 1 wagon is unlikely to remain intact the entire day cycle, and there really was nothing that Harambe could say in his own defense at that point. But he could have made a joke or something, or came out and said "Jeez guys, why are you taking me to L-1 on the first page?" None of this. He clammed up. Only later on did he post a response to it, and his response felt contrived.
Hard townreading thisIn post 210, Harambey180 wrote:Finally, when I saw that 'town leader' thing you said about me in your read on me, I remembered an idea I had earlier. I thought it would be a good idea if we had someone as a 'team leader' that coordinates everything that happens. Probably two people, because there's a chance that if we assigned this 'task' to one person, that person could be scum. If you picked two people that seem to absolutely disagree with eachother then the odds of both being scum is about 0 percent, so then you'd have at least one Townie in the team leader group. I don't know what you guys think...??
Should we need one or two people as team leader(s) to coordinate everything that happens in this game?Things like: making sure that one discussion doesn't go out of hand, let people take turns, make sure that two topics aren't discussed at the same time (because that's less efficient imo). That's what I'm thinking of rn.
You would join a Vulcan wagon, esp. near deadline, correct?In post 218, ofrhz wrote:I'm about halfway through typing up a readslist with explanations but I'm out of time so have a summary instead
Town
Harambey, Nachomama, Draynth
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Ventriloquist, Alciel/NSG
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Vulcan, Ircher, Etromin
Scum