so I'm trying to find a reason to vote for someone else, but nothing is sticking out.
As town, reads need to be right more than they are wrong if town is going to win. So as town I feel more pressure to have stuff that backs up my reads and end up struggling to figure out what to say.
Like, sure, I get it, being wrong sucks. At the same though, there's 3 scum around you, and to say there's nothing at all suspicious you've seen besides faust, I just can't get behind. Like, I agree, I don't know who, but I'm sure there's at least one person who I've been pointing at as scum who's going to end up being scum. There's a plentiful cast of kool kats this game, I would not say that everybody is rubbing off on me as town.
But how do you ignore the votes that other people quote?
I have a little recursive routine that strips quotes out of posts... not hard :-)
The main code i use to parse the content out of the html game thread is quite messy, but it gets the job done as long as nobody changes the way the html is organised.
The least-elegant bit by far is all my attempts to encode the player list, making it deal with players swap in and out, and having it robust to the various typos or short-form names people use for each other.
Makes sense.
Having done 1 scraping thing as like my only project ever, I know exactly what you mean by the HTML thing
There was this like 5 character string in all the tags i wanted that changed every day for some reason, so I just matched the start of them and prayed that the tag headers (I forget the terminology now) never got renamed.
That does sound like a major pain. Especially when schadd's around, I'd imagine.