Also I am suspicious of people who tried to PoE too early. I think the earliest that could have been done was when eevee did it just a few hours ago (I mean the line isn't that obvious, but especially in the early days there just wans't enough information to eliminate people from anything in my opinion....)
As a result I wonder if people who were using PoE too early were players trying to make it look like they were townie and actively scum hunting (or the inverse town eliminating) but doing so so early that it was possible for them to do so without any sort of repercussions and not really basing it off anything (exactly what scum wants to do)...
chairs was the
first to do so 3 hours after the start of day...
and then chairs asks if we should
start making PoE lists again this is 1 day after the start of the game...
Voltaire responds with
a list:faust joins in
2 days after game start:
mail-mi and
ichimaru join in, but they are doing more of pops style reads... so I don't mind this quite as much as it isn't too early PoE, but just putting out reads at the time...
again from Galz on why PoE, when done the right way is good:
Every town player there right now is trying too hard to finger scum. To catch them. That won't work d1. Flip it around. Don't look for that one good case for somebody being scum, look for reasons to eliminate people. Give them reasons to be town - or at least a reason not to lynch. Archetype, for example, should be off the table. PoE down based on not who's "most likely" to be scum, but instead by eliminating those "less likely" to be scum.
Finding scum needs real information. You can't have that d1. D1 is a different animal and needs to be treated with different guiding principles. Town(s) will continue to fail because they think they can catch scum when they can't. D1 lynches are FAR, FAR below average for hitting scum for a reason.
The trick is making reasonable arguments for certain people (Arch, here) to be removed from lynch candidacy. Arguments that most agree on.
Emphasis on the reasonable arguments part. I would say all of the PoE done up to this point--not this post, but up to the ones I have included in this post--were done too early to be reasonable...
As a result I question why they were even done. To me it just looks like players who wanted to look like they were being productive town members trying to get some town points w/o actually needing to do the work or put down the strong opinion on something as at this point there wasn't enough to put down a strong opinion on anything...
This isn't a surefire point, and I am not voting anyone because of it because I could see town players thinking that doing this would be beneficial for some reason... but I am wary of those who did.