He has 23 posts so far this game. Other than 4 jokey posts, he has
- 1 post asking a question of who people read well D1,
- 7 posts D1 saying that he is lurking, but that it isn't anti-town this game because of plurality exile, or various comments on his lurking,
- 0 votes D1,
- 1 post saying he would vote for WCD, based on "today's posts", but not voting, which helped cause the WCD wagon to stall
- 9 posts D2 saying that he is lurking, but that it isn't anti-town this game because of plurality exile, or various comments on his lurking, including comments about how he is waiting to get to something meaningful D1, but isn't expecting anything (almost like if people don't try to interact at all, there isn't anything to analyze...),
- 1 reads list, where he says that nothing meaningful came out of D1, as he expected... With ABSOLUTELY no information. Also with a scummy vote for joth.
His entire game is a mix of not contributing and complaining that nothing useful has happened.
I would be fine with it, except that he has spent more time explaining why he doesn't need to vote, because of plurality voting (which is not the mentality a VT has), than anything else. His only vote so far has been for joth with scummy reasoning. This is all coupled with my reasoning that I suspect all the wagons D1 were town, so scum was incentivized to back off and just let the exile happen (which is why plurality exile can be good for scum as well as town), because they did not care who got exiled, and there was no reason to ensure a majority-misexile happened.
His reads list is:
town: fang
scum: mathdude, MiX, WCD, joth, gkrieg, galz, EFHW, and Swowl
hasn't played enough with: e.
Scum loves to leave options open, and fang is one person that at this point is very likely to not be exiled.
Why is not having to vote due to plurality not a VT mentality in your opinion? The whole point is that having plurality means we don't risk no exile. And that would be a major reason to vote when we near deadline, to avoid no exile. Without that risk, voting vs non voting doesn't make much of a difference, imo, when I didn't feel I had any good read of one person vs another. (especially those who were the top vote getters)
Yes, voting helps other decide whether they think I'm town or not, but again, when not having a much of an idea, I don't think my having placed a vote would be useful there.
So I stand by not my not voting D1.
And I also stand by the fact that people here like to infer a lot from interactions in a way that's not as useful as they think they are.
I also think you're completely misinterpreting my read list. And putting way to many people as "scum". Which goes back to my first point - I've learned that just because the way someone posts seems "scummy" to me hasn't always had a good correlation to being scum. SO I'm hoping for more concrete thoughts, and still nto finding then in my D1 reread.
Why do you say my vote for joth is scummy?