This is out of order, but I need to address this point first. I thoroughly disagree with this statement. I think if one has any suspicion, even a slight one, he should have his vote there. IMO, one should always have a vote on someone, regardless of whether it’s an air-tight case, or a fairly weak one. The point is, the vote says “this is who I’m most suspicious of”, it does not say “I’m quite certain this person is scum”.
If you look at my vote, I had it on Sitnam for much of the Day. It was initially a random vote, but he also did things that I felt warranted investigation. I wasn’t even remotely sure that he was scum. I changed my vote to Menocchio when I felt he was more likely to be scum. That’s not to say I’m certain he’s scum either. In fact, I’m not even convinced he’s more likely to be scum than not, but I DO think he’s the most likely to be scum. His death will also generate information based not only on those who voted for him, but also those who didn’t then, based upon his alignment, we can scrutinize the votes, particularly those lacking good reasoning.
You’re not voting out of a sense of duty, you should be voting to say who you think is most likely to be scum. You also have to realize that the amount of information available on Day One is low and, as such, so should be the necessary amount of evidence to warrant a vote. You have to remember that for townies, and even our investigative power roles who haven’t had a chance to work yet, that the votes aren’t that much different from random, but they ARE for scum, there’s discernable motivation.
See, you DO have reasons to vote for people. Most of that is par for reasoning on Day One, and I could accept a vote for any of those (obviously excepting Nanook since you state you are no longer suspicious) as a good Day One vote, including the one for me.
So tell me, which of those do you find most suspicious. Unless you’re not more convinced than purely random (which you obviously are, since it’s a proper subset of the population), then you have no good reason not to vote.
