Oh my god I forgot about this game.
Here's my Galzria post:
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Let's go player by player.
Galzria is town. Galzria is playing for the town condition. I'll grab a few posts that make me say this:
I was going to vote MiX here, but I’m going to leave my vote on Scola for right now. I would also consider Datswan or Gkrieg at this point in time.
Okay, this is null, throwing a bunch of names around is fine for either alignment.
I didn't call it random, just pointless. And yes, I get the point is to see how people react. But I'd argue, that's not actually effective. It would be interesting to see some analysis on how well anyone's D1 reads actually are...
A very 1-dimensional outlook. You're only considering "how people react" as a direct influence on reads. But there's a lot more to the purpose of voting than that. It creates connections. Is scum!MiX more likely, or less likely, to put a vote down on a partner in early RVS phases? What about Awaclus, or anybody else? An RVS vote may not have any weight or reason, and the "reaction" it generates may not be all that valuable (especially D1) - but every vote says something about the person making it - They choose who for reasons that are very rarely random (or pointless).
I do hear you on potential slips of knowledge and had not completely thought of that - but those slips some times come from scum, too, no?
Possibly, maybe. But town has much less use for such information than scum does, as scum is actively looking for information to inform a pretty major decision during the night - therefore pursuing discourse that may positively influence that decision for scum is fairly bad for town.
i.e I think the point of either is just to encourage more chatter - and this is true for both town and scum. town trying to weed out scum, scum trying to learn town's roles. I'm not sure why one is actually better than the other. I'm just not of fun of picking someone and voting for them without at least a piece of reasoning.
Not all chatter is equal. Chatter that potentially makes alignment connections is more valuable than chatter that potentially reveals information. You even acknowledge as much in the bolded above: One IS clearly better than the other - so why pursue a line of conversation that is beneficial to scum?
Also, vote: swowl.
As scum, this post serves to fill Galzria's ISO with words that make sense, to make him look townie. So what's the last thing scum's thinking when they're doing that? To setup a vote. This vote right here at the end of all that is townie, it shows that Galzria really wants the game to keep moving, and more importantly that he wants to push specific people.
Swowl case
This is a pretty significant chunk of effort that scum!Galzria doesn't need to do, doesn't need to feel like he needs to do it, and probably doesn't feel like he needs to do it. Now, I don't particularly agree with his case, I think saying he's not scumhunting as the primary reason to scumread is a bit off: yes, Swowl always scumhunts D1 and it feels like he's doing less of that here, but this game is not really like a normal one, especially with less players and thus less content. But the case itself comes from a townie perspective, and it's good enough to sheep.
Now, to D2: he's basically been hell-bent on exiling Swowl. Is this the position scum is taking? They might not even know if Swowl dies permanently, and if he does he would flip (right, joth? right? please?), so then Galz would get a bunch of heat on him, which happens regardless of how he pushes Swowl. I can see scum say "let's just setup this exile which by all rights should've happened yesterday", but not
just do that.
For all of these reasons, and for not really seeing scummy posts, I would say Galz is always town here.
Now, Didds: the first thing I notice is this subtle buddying:
EFHW question seemed innocuous enough, but I don’t know how mix’s mind works. He’s really good at finding scum, at least when the sum is me, so there’s that.
The rest of the post doesn't matter, and maybe I'm being a bit self-centered, but that's a hidden buddying right there. Town!Didds is open about buddying, does this mean scum!Didds is more reserved about it? I don't remember checking for that in any previous scum!Didds games, but this is a point against Didds being town.
There's a few posts in between that aren't very alignment indicative. Then there's this:
I am more persuaded by Galz than the Scola folks, although he is my second choice. The MiX reasons are... uh...hard to evaluate. I'm not sure his lack of activity is any worse than gkriegs. I do not understand at all why gkrieg can just check out of D1 with no repercussions, though.
So, my scummy to not list is
Swowl
Scola
gkrieg
MiX
math
Awaclus
Galz
EFHW
Outside of Swowl, and maybe EFHW's a bit up, this was basically my readslist (yes, I remembered), roughly swapping me with Didds.
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Oh it has a bit of my Didds reread before I stopped being able to think about mafia.