Joseph, I think you are scum, so the idea of you telling me to be more helpful is kind of funny
dim dim
and I just posted a reads list, so there you go
Yes, that was helpful, thanks
Also, as I mentioned before, I don't think you're scum, think what your doing would be a really dumb scum move, as it attracts attention to yourself.
I'm pretty certain there's a scum lurking, more sure than I am on either chairs (who seems like an easy mislynch, as in M53) or faust (who I still think is scum, but less sure).
Hence, Unvote: faust .
On a different note, I've had problems logging onto f.ds (i've been able to get on twice in 3hrs), so if I'm away/slow-responding, it's not my fault.
Worrying about people perceiving your posting patterns in a certain way is a bit of a scum tell.
No it's not. If you're town, you want to look town. If you're scum, you still want to look town. That's not a tell. There's no tell that 100% works. You're all just shooting in the dark. So please, if we have to lynch someone, let's lynch someone we all think is scum, and not just guess.
So I don't know who you are or why you're arguing this point, but you're wrong here. Though perhaps your wrongness is more of a factor of language choice.
"Tell" doesn't mean one can draw unmitigated and provable deductions. It means it's indicative of a scum way of thinking. It's obvious that "there's no tell that 100% works". Obvious to the point that there is really no content in saying so, which makes me wonder for what reason you made this post at all.
"Tell" means someone is betraying a line of thought that is more likely to come from scum than from town. It can, of course, come from both. As I've argued many, many times before, scum has to worry a lot more about how there posts are interpreted. They also have to worry about how their posting patterns appear. They have to think, e.g., "is lurking giving me away?" and often that causes them to feel like they need to post more, which gives their posts a bit of a constructed feel. (It's hard to find stuff to post about if you're thinking "I really need to post something of substance.") Scum is more likely to think that their absence for a very short period needs to be excused (because of forum problems), because they're going to think of everything they do as possibly giving them away.
This I know because I've been scum before, and these are the kind of thoughts that go through my head. This is why scum is a lot harder. Now, of course, other people have different thoughts, but I only have my own thoughts, and what I glean from others' actions, to go by, and we're all playing within the same parameters here, so I often use what I consider to be my scum tells as a means of finding scum. It's worked out well for me so far.
Now that that's out of the way, the real question is, why did you have such confidence Joseph was town? (This was before his claims.)