First of all, thank you for posting this.
Going back and reading the posts where this started, Andrew seems overly defensive from the beginning. If he had nothing to hide and the accusation had no credibility, then I don't think he'd need to respond with such incredulousness.
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Can you please show me which posts you consider incredulous and explain why you think that's what they are?
I've been asking this of everyone all day and nobody has been able to come up with an answer.
So I'm talking about your initial reaction, and I'm saying you were taking a position of incredulousness (not that your response was incredulous):
Scumslip? Really? I thought in big games there are three and in small games there are two. Is this incorrect?
This was right after Ash voted for you*, before there was a case against you. To me this comes off as overly defensive, because there hasn't been much of a strong position taken against you. Just Ash saying that what you said was a slip. I feel like if you just would have said "I simply thought that with 13 players, three scum was the setup. Every other game I've seen has been that way" then a lot of suspicion of you would never have been aroused. But the tone of this message is a lot more defensive than that, which makes me think you have something to defend.
Yeah maybe I could've phrased it differently but I don't see what's wrong with what I posted. I asked a legitimate question that nobody answered. Maybe if someone answered the question right off the bat there wouldnt've been as huge a debate over there, though I doubt it considering how vehement ash was about the supposed "scumslip". I see it as a two way street. I don't see this post really as defensive, more just surprised that anyone could consider that a scumslip and then "oh... that's not what I meant. Is that assumption wrong?".
And your defense since then has been "no one can explain why they think I'm scum," but it feels to me like people have been explaining and that you're just hanging onto the "nobody has a reason" defense.
So just to clarify, I never said "nobody has a reason", I've been asking people to clarify their reasonings for voting me like you are doing here (which is why I thanked you in the beginning.)
Just going off memory here but let me see... ash and shraeye vote me for the "scumslip", TA votes me for my two first posts being "calm" and is unwilling or unable to clarify beyond that, XP votes me for being "self-aware" and still hasn't clarified that despite me asking at least twice, faust votes me for my reactions being scummy, posts something with a lot of links to what I've said with no real additional information besides calling them all scummy, and fails to respond after I pick it apart, sudgy votes me for my play in Adventure Time, in which the most people voting for me at one time were 2 (I think) and one of them was an RVS holdover, and you vote me for being "overly defensive" which I discussed above. Am I missing anything?
I mean,maybe this is just tone with everything and it's coincidental here. This is my first game so I'm new at this reading thing, but this is the only thing I've been able to form an opinion about so far.
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*Actually, going back again, I see Shraeye had jumped on too. When I initially made my vote I thought your response was directly after Ash, so you only had one vote against you. Now I see you had two votes.. that does change my perspective a little bit.
Part of the reason I've been taking this tone has been my frustration with some people saying I've said or done things that I haven't said or done.
First and foremost is the "scumslip" which has been beat to death already so I'm not even going there anymore. I've also been accused of saying "all big games have 3 scum" when I actually said "all big games
I have seen have had 3 scum". I've been accused of defending ADK which has not happened anywhere. I've been accused of trying to force an end to conversation when actually I was pushing the conversation on my case forward. And in your post you say that I've been saying "nobody has a reason", which is not at all what I've been saying.
Maybe now you can see why I've having such a hard time here.