No.
Beaver needs to head claim. Head claiming is pro-town, especially in games where not all players are hydras, see Supernatural Mafia.
Not horribly, but its a great way to get the game out of the RVS, and sometimes tells about what scum might have.The Fonz wrote:Vote: LlamaFluff
Is it your opinion that people who propose antitown stuff like that are usually scum?
You missed my three questions.LlamaFluff wrote:@boberz - Opinion on head claim? Is it scummy to vote [fuzzy] due to refusal? Have you read supernatural?
Null at best pointsSleepless Assassin wrote:Boberz, why didn't you vote in your first post?
Kage, why did you feel the need to acknowledge Jason's vote on Zang if you were going to vote for Nacho?
Talked about by most, here we have SA bring it up but not take any stance about itDemon, why did you want a mass character claim, which is obviously a terrible idea
Tragedy, don't guess people's roles in thread.(The Fonz already addressed this).
Null tell push again, and again without explaination or vote/followup.Boberz Post 52, reaction to a few votes on him, is much scummier than anything he did to warrant the votes in the first place.
Not so subtle rolefishing hereBenmage gets a scum read, butI won't say why just yet.Sweet, I can elaborate because Hiraki already confirmed that my thought wasn't true. The not wanting to say more thing, to me, looked like someone with role related info. Sure, we haven't had a night. But some roles are immediately given information that can help them figure things out.
This seems like a very odd point for him to end up given his previous points. While he does subtely push on a few people in his first post, he backs off all of that to vote someone who he never really says anything about. That and the Tragedy wagon is complete vig bait.Sleepless Assassin wrote:How many games have you played in where they lynched in RVS?Tragedy wrote:RVS usually ends up a town lynch when it comes to group influence, mhm.
Kage, that post was just my thoughts as I was reading. Not my fault that I read more and realized someone else had pointed out a couple of my thoughts already.
Vote Tragedynow that I'm caught up.
Well, same applies to Tragedy. Both those wagons arent that pretty. You are right on lynching for pure information though, while some lynches will naturally be more useful in delevoping other reads then some, lynching ONLY for information, or even using it as an arguement, is a poor idea at best.The Fonz wrote:I was talking about Tragedy.LlamaFluff wrote:Fonz is right, DBE is not scummy and actually more likely town then most of the people that are voting her.
Hiraki isnt really that scummy. I would lynch any of my four over him.Guderian wrote:Not hiraki???llama wrote:Players who are scummy are people like SA, Sens, NC and to a lesser extent Jason.
Ive already told you that SA is scum. When he doesnt post, and no one really seems to want to listen to me it cant really go anywhere. I would fine with a NC lynch, however SA is far better, but I dont like any of the leading wagons (Tragedy especially). The only remotely acceptable one is Hikari, but there are quite a few better lynches then him.Guderian wrote:Also on the fence about Llamafluff. Usually, he is advocating and pushing wagons, defending people, and being active. Here, he has posted a few times and then posited a vote on someone with no hope of being lynched, and has washed his hands of all leading wagons.
Do you think scum are more likely not to random vote in games? Is it bad to not random vote? Are scum more likely to point out a funny joke vote then town are? I find it hard to really see either of these points as possible tells. If you are saying that boberz was testing the water, cant I say that you are testing the water for attacking each of them?Sleepless Assassin wrote:Llama, the boberz and Kage points were possible leads. They were the first things I saw on Page 1, so I figured I'd dig. Boberz turned out to be null because of a meta I wasn't aware of and Kage's answer looked legit. So yeah, null points. But I didn't know that yet. Sometimes scum like to test waters before voting or feel the need to acknowledge joke votes on their scumbuddies as funny. I don't think either of those is the case here, but it was worth looking into.
Well what have you come to on conclusion? Also you do realize what trying to extract this is going to do I assume, or are you missing one of the big things that will have to occur in an attempt to justify massclaim?With Demon, I was trying to get a response about why he mentioned the idea. I think I mentioned this above in this post, but it's all about his reasons/motivation for suggesting the massclaim. I'm not going to just jump into "OMG SO SCUMMY" or defend him without trying to determine his intentions first.
You say that "well what Hikari did is scummy, unless he is a town power role that has information". Thats a bit of fishing since you are pressuring him on a tell that he can get rid of, if he is a town power role. Overreaction still remains the most bullshit tell in now close to three years on the site. Its not a tell.On Boberz, I don't see how saying that his reaction to votes on him is scummy can be considered either a null push or lack of explanation. On Hiraki, how is "Benmage shouldn't have pointed out what looked like a power role tell even though we now know it wasn't" rolefishing. Hiraki already told us his thought process behind that, so it's obvious that I was wrong anyway. Apparently, he was just lazy.
You didnt do anything to call Tragedy scum, or at least anything remotely close to the pressure you had put on someone like boberz who I thought your vote was going. You still arent pushing him, I have no idea why you are actually.About the Tragedy vote, there's a few things wrong with this accusation. First, the fact that I voted Tragedy over people who I didn't have much on yet is scummy why? Second, why was I supposed to see Tragedy as scummy before I actually did? Scum don't always give themselves up in their first post.
Only tell Hikari really did was his saying we should lynch DH for being anti-town. Apart from that he reads neutral to slight town. Also the wagon on him isnt made of players that inspires confidence.Mariyta wrote:Llama, how do you not see Hiraki as scummy? I may be biased, but I think most people find him at least somewhat scummy.
Early on making excuses not to have to scumhunt. If no one ever decided to scumhunt we would never progress beyond RVS. There are even a few small wagons going at this point that tvelll is ignoring.tvellalott wrote:Hardly.Hiraki wrote: This person needs to die to, before DH. That makes me sigh.
Unvote, Vote: tvellalot
The content is coming, it's still ridiculously early in the game.
Again, overdefensive is never a tell, you have to be lying to yourself to think that is. Not sure 217 qualifies as deflection either, DBE explicitly says that the tell applies to her as well, but still brings up that sotty is active lurking. The move from the sotty to hikari I think can actually be a slight town tell after looking at a vote and reevaluating where it was, moving to somewhere that they think is better.tvellalott wrote:anyway, so far my reads are:
sens: town - I like his scum hunting, although initially I thought scum because of the vote-only posts, but I've reconsidered.
darla: scummish - A slight rumbling in my stomach says that post #217 was deflecting to scotty and #221 seemed overly defensive.
You say he should be applying the tell to DBE, not you. Sort of like you are... what that word... "deflecting" the suspicion onto DBE.tvellalott wrote:In fact, we see here:...you asking the same question as me here:Sleepless Assassin wrote: Also to Darla, what is "contradicting" about any of my play so far? What have I changed without properly explaining? More so, what had changed at the point that you made that post (Page 10) where I had, what, two posts?You didn't think she warranted a vote, I did.tvellalott wrote:Seriously though, hopping onto another bandwagon based on 'contradicting play', which you could now be accused of?
Lol.
Not at that point you didnt. Try coming up with a defense that applies to the point.tvellalott wrote:I'm not ignoring anything. I've got a legitimate vote on Darla.LlamaFluff wrote:Early on making excuses not to have to scumhunt. If no one ever decided to scumhunt we would never progress beyond RVS. There are even a few small wagons going at this point that tvelll is ignoring.tvellalott wrote:Hardly.Hiraki wrote: This person needs to die to, before DH. That makes me sigh.
Unvote, Vote: tvellalot
The content is coming, it's still ridiculously early in the game.
Yeah... over defensiveness is not a tell. I have been playing for almost three years and I have never seen it better then a 50-50 tell. Either way, what you find to be a town tell or scum tell is completely subjective (swear ive heard that before). When I say "textbook tell" though, its because there is no mistaking it. What you applied to DBE is far more streaching then what I have applied to you. Far more interesting whatever is you attack me instead of doing anything that acknowledges my attack on you.Over-defensiveness is NEVER a tell? I disagree.LlamaFluff wrote:Again, overdefensive is never a tell, you have to be lying to yourself to think that is. Not sure 217 qualifies as deflection either, DBE explicitly says that the tell applies to her as well, but still brings up that sotty is active lurking. The move from the sotty to hikari I think can actually be a slight town tell after looking at a vote and reevaluating where it was, moving to somewhere that they think is better.tvellalott wrote:anyway, so far my reads are:
sens: town - I like his scum hunting, although initially I thought scum because of the vote-only posts, but I've reconsidered.
darla: scummish - A slight rumbling in my stomach says that post #217 was deflecting to scotty and #221 seemed overly defensive.
We are going to also bring up (a weak) deflection on DBEs part we get to bring up more textbook on your part.
What you find to be a town-tell and I find to be a scum-tell is completely subjective, obviously.
So when you say "more textbook on your part", you're merely fluffing, because 'textbook' doesn't exist.
[/quote[First of all, I'm saying he should apply his scumtells to everyone they apply to, not change them to match someone you're obviously trying to draw pointless attention to. As I mentioned, scumtells are subjective to the player so what he sees as ME deflecting and what I see as Darla deflecting may be completely different actions. You admitted she was slightly deflecting yourself.LlamaFluff wrote:You say he should be applying the tell to DBE, not you. Sort of like you are... what that word... "deflecting" the suspicion onto DBE.tvellalott wrote:In fact, we see here:...you asking the same question as me here:Sleepless Assassin wrote: Also to Darla, what is "contradicting" about any of my play so far? What have I changed without properly explaining? More so, what had changed at the point that you made that post (Page 10) where I had, what, two posts?You didn't think she warranted a vote, I did.tvellalott wrote:Seriously though, hopping onto another bandwagon based on 'contradicting play', which you could now be accused of?
Lol.
Then slight OMGUS, also lurking is a slight tell. Its a very strong tell for a few people.
Triple lawl
unvote
Vote tvellalott
Second, slight OMGUS? What the hell are you talking about. Stop applying words to my plays that clearly don't match.
Finally, you just said Lurking was a slight tell and a very strong tell in the same sentence. R U CONFUZED?
Wraith is a decent spot to have a wagon show up, especially compared to a few people that are getting votes. I like my tvell vote a whole lot more though.The Fonz wrote:Guys, can I haz comments on Wraith? Do people think his actions are not scummy at all, not scummy given meta, null, scummy, what?
Have a hard time reading him. He is one of the only VI players who I have a very hard time reading consistnatly. Almost all other VI players I can read much better then 50-50. Dont want a lynch of him since thats not how I like dealing with hard to reads, but I would shake the hand of anyone who decided to vig him.sottyrulez wrote:Llama, what do you think about didin?
I answered that later in the game that apparently you havent got to/missedBenmage wrote:Hey LLamaBenmage wrote:Apparently it was...I don't think anyone else picked up on any sort of roelfishing attempt...LlamaFluff wrote:Not so subtle rolefishing hereBenmage gets a scum read, butI won't say why just yet.Sweet, I can elaborate because Hiraki already confirmed that my thought wasn't true. The not wanting to say more thing, to me, looked like someone with role related info. Sure, we haven't had a night. But some roles are immediately given information that can help them figure things out.But in case it was, your reasoning for trying to highlight it is......????
This is easier.Benmage wrote:Whose he 1?LlamaFluff wrote: SA starts saying that Ben has role related info and implies that Ben may be scum for that because we havent had a night for any town roles, scum knows more. Then SA goes on to say that if Ben was a town role, it wouldnt be as scummy, making the only way the tell fails to apply is if Ben is a town role.
Whose he 2?
Whose he 3?
Ummm... saying "Ben has a role" and "he appears to have info which means he is scum, or town PR" is different. He was saying the latter, which I have already quoted, and you quoted me saying.Benmage wrote:Quote SA saying/believing I had role related info please.
Also Elaborate more your reasoning for saying "not so subtle rolefishing"...what was the purpose of this statement? What were you trying to achieve?
Dont steal my thing, ive been doing that for two years. This hits a couple of the requirements to make the player obv town, but does miss a few more. Given that DBE was already town before that claim though, she remains town.DemonHybrid wrote:DBE is definite town. For those of you that have played with me, I put pre-L-1 VT claims in an extremely favorable light. But that's for another day in Mafia Discussion.
You know that may be a step in the opposite direction.Deer wrote:@Mod (and Llama): My vote is on DarlaBlueEyes.
First, Hikari isnt that great of a wagon. The wagon on him is full of people that make me feel uneasy. You also are ignoring quite a few of the points:Mariyta wrote:More Hiraki votes, please. Darla is not the play for today and I really don't see the case against Kage. Is it just for that "He suggested Darla claim, so she claimed" thing?
The first quote was a DBE sheeping everyone asking for FB head claim, later she unvoted and moved to boberz. It was not backtracking like claimed by kage though. Backtracking owuld have been along the lines of "oh never mind you dont need to claim", she actually said that she did not find FB scummy, and that was why she is unvoting.The first one obviously features sheeping prominently ("Ditto the crowd" doesn't help Darla's case), but that in itself isn't much of a scum tell since many people could be considered sheeping on that vote and we can't really tell apart those who were serious and those who were opportunistic. However, when seen with this second quote... that seems like major backtracking. Also no reason on the new wagon vote (following DH and The Fonz).
So now Kage is just bouncing around between top suspects DBE, Hikari and jason. Still not scumhunting, and more making noise with small things that are incosequent to anything at this point in the game.Great. Now I don't know if the scummy play was a result of noobishness and personal stuff or actually being scum.
While everyone was all into the claim thing, this part is FAR more important. Kage is justifying a lynch on DBE because he is either scum or town that will not be useful. At this point instead of scumhunting, he is trying to push what is more of a policy lynch on someone, and prematurely making sure that a town flip wont give him any flack.I'm still on board for DBE. Either she's scum or she's just completely flighty and confused town. Since there is no way to prove that the latter is actually the case, I don't mind lynching her. If she flips scum, hurray. If she flips town, we at least didn't lose anyone that would be of much help to us.
So changing reads makes him Kages second pick because those types of reads "shouldnt be taken lightly"As I said before, Hiraki was my #2 scum read. Main reason at this point is that 2 of his "____ needs to die" reads have now seemingly become neutral reads as there is no steam on their wagons (DH and tvella).
Im going to say because it was a really bad wagon to start.boberz wrote:Nobody has articulated to my satisfation why DBE's claim suddenly made everyone bugger off his wagon.
You are making a handfull of assumptions here to justify this vote. Also if you are taking the path I assume you are taking, Mist is the lynch, not Hikari.DemonHybrid wrote:Unvote, Vote: Hiraki
Already made the case on kage, take it you disagre? The Hikari wagon is just horrible on nearly every level, and DBE is one of the best bets for town in the entire game right now. How does 'orginizing town reads' have anything to do with this either? My town reads are pretty obvious, infact you can probably get my opinion of anyone by reading my posts.boberz wrote:Perhaps you should try and organise your town reads then llama. I am getting fed up of people moaning at everywagon that pops up. Find the alternative, and orchestrate a decent bandwagon.
Yep, DBE is a top five town read at worst and Hikari I have as leaning town. Them even existing is stunning to me, especially how the Hikari one just took offDemonHybrid wrote:He's saying that the fact that Kage and Hiraki are competing wagons is a joke, since Kage, to him, SHOULD be lynched and Hiraki should NOT be.
Im fairly confident he is, enough so that im going to argue him being town despite him not being one of my top town reads. Not really able to give strong reasons though. I just disagree with the strength of the case on him, and who is on the wagon is a massive red flag with me, especially as you see how fast this last little tail showed up. The wagon makes me think town, my other reads say he is town, im going to say he is town.ribwich wrote:I don't think there's been anyone though that's talked about Hiraki like he's obvtown, while there have been a few people that for some reason are acting that way about DBE.Mariyta wrote:Someone tell me why Hiraki is so town-like. Has nobody read his posts?? And yeah, I may be semi-tunneling, but that's because he's so horribly scummy.boberz wrote:Someone tell me why DBE is so town like!!! Or have you all signed the Official Secrets Act.
But the lurkers were really scummy before becoming lurkers, and one is avoiding the game, otherwise I would agree with youDemonHybrid wrote:Don't you think we have a lot of information to work with, to the point where we don't have to worry about the lurkers quite yet?
What I have been saying. DBE, Hikari and Fonz are all probably town. SA, Tvell and Kage are great wagons.We will get to them, but come on, what are your thoughts so far?
No. Mist was a VI/Troll, the claim was absurd and the hammer was expected. I would have voted/hammered after they claimed if I wasnt already on the wagon.DemonHybrid wrote:Anything on the new information regarding the Mist claim, hammer and votes as the effect of such?
ITS NOT JUST FOR LURKING! THEY ARE BOTH VERY SCUMMY IF YOU REMOVE THAT FACT! LURKING SIMPLY SUPPLEMENTS MY CASE!Hiraki wrote:I don't lynch lurkers for being lurkers.
Tracer result doesnt force us to lynch a certain way, you still lynch the best scum bet on scumhunting. This just gives us some ideas of who could be scum.boberz wrote:Why Fonz given the tracer result?
Stupid plan if you think someone on the wagon is scum. That doesnt, or at least shouldnt, change the read of that person.Mariyta wrote:The only wagon with more than 2 votes is Hiraki, who I was voting, until the plan to lynch peopleoffthe Mist wagon came up.
Trying to revitalize a wagon that had six players, all still alive, on it yesterday is changing plenty. Especially since that wagon yesterday was one of the most townie groups ever to town.Your vote really didn't help matters any, now did it? Nope.
Well... Jason is town, Cons (who I was voting) I wasnt getting any support for, Wraith is null leaning town, Hikari is probably town. Three bad wagons and one that I dont think the lynch support I need will show on.Put Kage at 2. Why not hop on Jason, or Consigliere, or Wraith, or even Hiraki if you want a solid wagon going.
Incorrect... that information is to be used as the game goes on to help get town or scum reads. If you think someone on Mist wagon is scum, that claim should NOT dissuade those thoughts at all.DemonHybrid wrote:If your vote is on one of the following people:
hiraki, SensFan, jasonT1981, The Fonz, sottyrulez, DarlaBlueEyes, LlamaFluff, KageLord, DemonHybrid, Nero Cain, Mariyta, boberz, ribwich
You are doing it -wrong-. Regardless of how scummy they are.
Yes, even then. If I think that someone on the mist wagon has GREATER then a 50% chance to be scum, then its better then taking an off the wagon stab. If we are lynching off the wagon its not going to be anyone but SA or nacho at this point.DemonHybrid wrote:Even with a nearly 50% chance?
I'd agree if 4-5 people were on the mist wagon.
Would you rather have me have said "cons who just replaced tvell"? Also you should vote now, or within the next few minutes when you are caught up on the last two or so pages.Consigliere wrote:Throw this guy in the "anti-town" bin for not even paying attention to the game.
From a purely mathematical standpoint you are correct. If we knew nothing about the game and just drew numbers, drawing from the off the wagon pool would be better. However we have things that back up people being scum and town. If you insist on playing the odds, you would have to measure a scum read of those on the wagon by about 25% (assume 5 of 24 scum, and the also necessary sens-town) and the ones off by 44%, then the greatest read would be correct. This is a game off some odds, but reads are the more important part. I will follow my reads.DemonHybrid wrote:Doesn't a lynched scum appeal to you, though? Confirmed interactions and playstyle?LlamaFluff wrote:Yes, even then. If I think that someone on the mist wagon has GREATER then a 50% chance to be scum, then its better then taking an off the wagon stab. If we are lynching off the wagon its not going to be anyone but SA or nacho at this point.DemonHybrid wrote:Even with a nearly 50% chance?
I'd agree if 4-5 people were on the mist wagon.
Maybe I'm thinking of things too literally, but I'd gladly give up my Fonz scum read for a ~44% chance at lynching a scum and building my reads off of that.
Wait so your vote without apparently having read the game is your actual vote?Consigliere wrote:So that's a no to paying attention?LlamaFluff wrote:Would you rather have me have said "cons who just replaced tvell"?Consigliere wrote:Throw this guy in the "anti-town" bin for not even paying attention to the game.Also you should vote now, or within the next few minutes when you are caught up on the last two or so pages.
Thanks for playin'.
Which is why you wanted to lynch DBE's claim of VT?diddin wrote:No powers? Lynch all 'nilla claims.Tragedy wrote:Fuuu claim: I'm the Comic Guy.