Gravija/Kaze day 1.
gravija voted agi during RVS. He moved to TSO
here. I assumed this was more RVS because of the timeframe, but he
defended the vote like it was serious when notsci questioned him about the timing. And
continued to defend it. This earnestness about the vote was part of what made me think newbtown.
56 - he votes agi again because of agi's defensiveness. irony. In
58 he FoSes notsci. He appears to get angry and then votes notsci a few posts later. The super-touchiness also struck me as newb. He switches back to agi a few posts later because he finds agi annoying.
Then he stops moving his vote around and interacts more, interspersed with spells of inactivity.
In post
226 he sheeps Bert onto Cabd. Then when Sakura calls him on this and offers to be the lynch instead, he votes her in
228
This is his last vote before being replaced.
He's on the volatile end of newb behavior. Although he disappeared a couple of times, I wouldn't characterize his play as lurky.
Looking back with the hindsight of his successors in that slot, the reasons for voting are mostly weak and reactive, but it's really not something that stands out as scummy in the context of newb play. Damn it. If he's scum he played really well here as a newb.
Kaze's
catch-up post was eye-glazing and in some ways weak looking. He voted TSO at the end of it, though I think he commented more about Cabd. In his wall of links, he made a lot of comments about notsci being town. And he showed a trajectory in catch-up on Bert moving to town.
-- So gravija tangled with ns and at one point voted him. Kaze townread him. IME newbs tend not to engage their scum partners. Kaze isn't exactly a newb, and I am not sure if he'd townread his partner that strongly.
312 he comments that he's sharing the TSO wagon with a scum read (Cabd) and a null read (agi). this post struck me as townie at the time.
After this there's a lot of eye-glazing over all the meta. He townreads Sakura for her fatalism. He townreads GM for not liking Sakura's lurkiness. Then there's a long strand of interaction with Bert, who's suspicious of him.
Starting around
469 he starts to go after notsci over his meta change, and the change being "selective", e.g., tunneling still a feature.
571 shows a trajectory breakdown maybe. He's indicating that Cabd's earlier dismissive post is not alignment indicative. At the end of the post he unvotes TSO and expresses interest in voting Cabd, but once again takes exception to who else is on that wagon.
525 is interesting. He indicates he took his vote off TSO mostly to avoid a derphammer, but is deciding where to move it next. No indication that his read on TSO actually changed. In
542 he moves it back to TSO.
At this point, Cabd is back from jury duty. Kaze interacts with him a bit, asks about Cabd snark in
597, gripes about meta. I particularly liked post
609. He wasn't avoiding the noisy, assertive players in this game.
646,
649 reaction to Bert, especially to the VT claim, which I thought could be a PR tell when I skimmed his ISO looking for anything like a doc crumb.
651 - I thought this was goodposting, calling Bert out for the Cabd->TSO->GM trajectory in a short burst of posts.
657 - this sort of post I just never really grasp. I'm usually a wreck at this point of a game day. I see this from town as often as scum, though.
773 he's changed his mind about Cabd and says he's seeing the posts during the run-up to lynch as genuine.
Going back through this, I see why I wasn't scumreading Kaze. There are wobbles, but some of his posts just really strike me as town, and some take stances on players that would suck to retract later - specifically notsci early on, and I like his trajectory toward a null read of notsci as the day progressed. And his read-change on Cabd because he was expressing doubts about his scumread of Cabd at a time in the game where I was getting Cabd townvibes as well.
The main thing that looks weird is that he was apparently deciding where to move his vote when he took it off TSO, though his read didn't change. This is somewhat mitigated by his return to the TSO wagon shortly after.
