I want to get scumhunting done, but I know I'm not good at it... right now, I'm waiting on mail-mi and chairs. Although, this seems to be normal mai-mi: scummy and silent...
Well, I've mostly been quiet as I don't really have anything to add to the discussion and everything I've added so far I've been told is bad form.
I'm going to go ahead and item claim, though, since the earlier subtle reference was missed and I think my item's pretty darn innocuous: I have paper.
See, this just opens up more questions than anything. Did you start with the paper? Receive the paper? We can infer that you might be Cai Lun or Gutenberg now.
Certainly it does open up questions, but I simply don't see where else we can go for scumhunting other than to get at least some relevant information out there (granted, it seems most of you are playing at a lot higher level of WIFOM than I am, so perhaps I'm just missing it). I don't know where we draw the line on what questions we do/don't answer here.
In the end, the info is yours, you do what you want. It's just that most of town had vocalized that they weren't ready for claiming, and wanted a better idea for how we would do it.
Here's a hypothetical:
Scum has an item that somehow interacts with paper. They know they want paper to make it work. Now they can try to subtly buddy you to get you to send them some. Or they know that paper is needed as wadding in a musket for shooting. Or they think they can build paper airplanes to send PMs. I don't know. The problem is, you don't know either. But they might.
Now, the info is out there. What do we do with it? I think that's the more pertinent topic now.
As for saying this helps us scumhunt, I disagree. Talking set-up/theory/items/etc., when they aren't indicative of alignment, doesn't help us scumhunt. Scumhunting (to me) is looking at what people say about other people, how they interact with each other, what sorts of stances they may take on things. Does your premature claim say something about your alignment? I think so, so I guess that adds to the scumhunting. But the rest of the discussion that we necessarily have to have about the paper will not.