Hydra Mafia (Day 4, I can't think of a clever title!)

[Ojanen]

My stance on meta: It can be used to find townies from a town point of view, but it does not work for finding scum, which is the most important part of town play. Town play tends to be less predictable and so specific things from a player's town meta can be noticed and used as towntells. Howeverm scum metas are far less diverse and using meta to find scum doesn't really do anything except distract from actual scumhunting

Your reasoning is poor. Townies identifying townies should be a great thing. Scum hate pro-town bands. Scum is what is left when you have identified all the townies. Identifying people to trust is anything but a distraction from scumhunting.

Crab Canon hereby agrees with itself in wanting to out the hydras. One more concrete reason is monitoring activity. I want to be able to tell when the individual heads have 40 posts on the site without a single one here. I want scum to have that pressure to post at uncomfortable times to them, or be caught in active lurking, or have to coordinate silence sitewide.

Generally reading people has a lot to do with reading personality types to me. I remember looking at the playlist and counting 8 or so people who's MO I'm at least somewhat familiar with. It's already schitzophrenic enough with every account having 2 personalities - not being able to research the individual heads will make it even harder.
I don't see a pro-town reason for withholding the hydras identities.

Also: @Sotty7, in whichever hydra you are a head:
Hi. Are you scum?

[Ojanen]

@Bowser: Did Untrod-head post all of your 3 first posts ITT?

Oj

[Ojanen]

My contribution seems here seems to have been vague, more often inaccurate than not reads and subsequently an eternally extending extremely low access - glad I had a very good partner to at least give a read on us to people.
11 hydras are chaotic to try and read.
Out of curiosity, Sotty, why exactly did Tasky replace out early? (Sorry if it's come up already - not up to date on this thread.)

[Ojanen]

Oh and well played, scum.

[Ojanen]

To make sure: was he primarily replacing out tactically or was he primarily a real fundamentalist about the names? and why didn't he want to know his scumteam, if you feel like you can speak for him? (neither option is intended to be seen as judgmental, just trying to upgrade how to read through some things.)