Hm, okay. You’re right, I have been too quiet so far; I’d point out that I don’t often contribute much in the early game, but I’m being lazy even accounting for that, so it’s no excuse.
Let’s see. Otter’s being his normal aggressive self, mainly against what he sees as fundamentally bad play. In fact, only against bad play so far; you’ve been in the game for a while now, care to share your thoughts on town/scum?
Also, this grates:
Remember that time when we didn't kill Sopko in FFT because of this reasoning, and we kept him around, and his vote killed townies until days later when we finally killed him? Yeah, that was STUPID, I agree. Never suffer scum to live.
Yeah, but you’re responding to an accusation of bad play, not confirmed scumminess.
(Also, it was one townie, who very likely would have gone anyway if we’d killed Soppy instead of Andrew – who was
also scum – that round. But I digress.)
Other people. I stand by my suspicion of the rapid-fire votes for Tom from CPU, CK and Excal late in day 1. Of those three, CPU/Fnorder is a blank slate at the moment; I don’t have a read on Fnorder yet, and I’m inclined to judge him more on his own actions than CPU’s - CPU acted much the same in this game as he did in NR, where he was town. That’s not worth a complete pass – the instinct to overlook someone entirely for chronic bad play burned me with Nitori in PW – but I didn’t see anything uncharacteristic from him, and that’s half the trick in spotting scum.
Excal looks…somewhat town to me. Not decisively so, but he’s made some well-founded arguments, is generally behaving rationally and his post count isn’t horrifically low. Not a whole lot there, but nothing that
is there sets off bells.
CK I tend to agree with Strago on; he looks the worst of the three. He’s done a lot of little things that amount to very little indeed. With the topic young, votelists don’t tell us anything that somebody who cares couldn’t find themselves with minimal work, but they do make it easy to look like you’re contributing to the discussion without having to actually analyze what anybody says. He didn’t cast a serious vote on Day 1 until the pile-on on Tom, and in his last post he outright said he was following a trend and putting some pressure on lurkers instead of making anything like a case.
Need to read more closely what Corwin, Taishyr and VSM have written. They’ve posted a decent amount of content but I don’t have a firm impression of them.
