[QUOTE=Hal Briston]
Sorry, my best defense here is a good offense. I’m positive that I’m town and I’m quite certain that you’re scum. The only way to prove the former is to prove the latter.
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The only way to prove I’m scum (which I’m not, just for the record) is to lynch me, or wait until I’m night-killed which I think your suspicions and my horrible record at spotting scum are making less likely. Once my role is known it won’t prove anything one way or the other about you. If I’m town it will make you look bad, but can easily be dismissed. If I’m scum it could have been two scum having it out to distance themselves. You weren’t in any danger of a lynch yesterday, so this could have been a safe play for scum to hedge their bets. You and I both know that’s not the case, but nobody else does.
[QUOTE=Hal Briston]
Certainly – study and analysis of other people’s posts is the lifeblood of this game. It’s your spectacular timing that I find so damning. As I said earlier, it’s really a brilliant scum play. Unfortunately for you, the only thing you found that could have been thought to be of any value whatsoever was voting record. With our loss of Lightnin’ yesterday, people might be more hesitant to convict on that basis.
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You’ve been calling for looking at the players at the bottom of the post count for a number of days now. You are in this list too. Was I supposed to wait? You are right, though. Suspicion of you was growing, and my post approached you from this perspective. If you are town I could see scum using that suspicion and adding to it. I do have to wonder if they would have done so in such an obvious way. Maybe so, since they are trying to act as much like townies as possible, but I was very up-front with my suspicions of you, and also up-front with letting everyone know I didn’t find a smoking gun, and that I wasn’t convinced you were scum.
[QUOTE=Hal Briston]
Oh, and speaking of our dearly departed Lightnin’, let’s take a look back at my “low-post-count investigation” results post (Post #1503). When we reread it now, it look like I was wrong about it not being a good way to find scum. I stated in there that you were probably “Not Scum”, but noted the good investigative work you did in damning Lightnin’:Man, do those that last two sentences ring unbelievably true now – we have you making a post-by-post analysis of a player who has been rising in suspicion, you start out by calling him “over-defensive”, and proceed to pick every minor nit you can you find – "small thing"s or "odd suspicion"s, as you refer to them – things that are either non-issues, or are just easily explained.
Sound familiar?
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Yep, sounds familiar. If you look at that post in context, though, I didn’t post that out of the blue like I did for you. At the time, I was very convinced that Projammer was scum, and happened to mention Lightnin’ was near the top of my FOS list. Lightnin’ asked me why I suspected him, so I outlined what I found scummy about his posts. Post-by-post analysis is what I do. I’ve considered changing that, though, because I have a suspicion they are too long and people just skim through them without really paying much attention.
Also for the record, I really did think Lightnin’ was scum yesterday when I voted for him. As I was reviewing the thread (mostly looking for your posts) I re-read a bunch of Lightnin’s, and he really did come across to me as scummy. He made some very odd statements, and made some very odd plays. Backed up by his voting record I fully expected on that last refresh before the results were announced that he’d come up scum and I could sleep happily that night.
[QUOTE=Hal Briston]
You built up a dam out of paper mâché and hoped it would hold water. And unfortunately for the rest of us, it did, and now we’re down another town player. Now you’re trying the exact same move against me. Time for your dam to burst.
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Oh come now, I was hardly the only one who thought Lightnin’ was more likely to be scum than not. My post had very little to do with his lynching. My vote did, but that’s not what you’re calling me on here.
[QUOTE=Hal Briston]
Perhaps others will see your play this past day for what it is, perhaps not. However, if someone were to put themselves in the mindset that I’m definitely town and reread your original investigation of me (Post #1505), then there is a good chance they’ll see you for what you are.
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My post was exactly what it looks like. I saw that there was suspicion of you, realized that I had almost no read on you, and decided to see for myself. I’m suspicious of low post-count players a little more than those who are out-front, so I decided to have a look at you. I also decided to post what I’d found for the town’s benefit. This is how this game is supposed to work. If you’re town you should expect this to happen, and not rush to kill anyone looking closely at you.
[QUOTE=Hal Briston]
Vote nesta
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Believe me or not, I’m happy with your response to my FOS. I reviewed your history in the game and posted what I found in a hope of getting a better read on you. To some extent that’s worked. I get the feeling now that you’re just as confused at this point as I am. I don’t think scum would react like you have, so you’ve dropped a few notches on my suspicion list. If you’re scum, well played.
Vote for me until one of us is dead if you like. I think you’re being a little shortsighted, though. Before I FOSed you I was in your probably town column, so it seems to me the only reason I switched to definitely scum is that I wanted to figure out if you were scum or not. Ask yourself if this is something scum would do. If you stay convinced that I’m scum, so be it, but please don’t let this tunnel-vision keep you from looking for scum that don’t depend on my being one.
Yeah, I’ll tell everyone what happened each night, if they want to know.