I'm going to try to catch up with the thread today during my lunch break. Try being the operative word.
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Baiting reactions is a horrible way to catch mafia. Who's to say you won't get town by accident?I still don't see why trying to bait reactions from mafia is a bad thing... That's the whole point of the game, especially in D1 since we have little to play off of. If no one catches the bait, then no one does. Though I do find it interesting how it was ignored for a bit (as I would think many would do seeing it as just a joke) then Xivii jumps on it. Couple that with the other Xivii reasons you gave :/
I still don't see how I role fished exactly. Bottom line, we all knew Xivii was attracting a lot of attention. We wondered why. People said before that things along the line of would he do that if he was mafia iirc. I simply analyzed the situation. How is trying to decipher situations a scumtell?
~lol vyse do u change ur avatar with like every reply in here to match the emotion of ur post?
Now that you bring that up, he didn't really respond to me thinking of him as a suspect along with SuSa and Kat in this post.That being said, Xiivi's also chosen to ignore your insinuating that he is mafia and not address it in any of his subsequent posts.
Which really didn't address anything specific despite the fact that he was in that list of suspicious canidates for me.Air:
203/204: These are good. It's nice that you're attempting to look into a different person than everyone else seems to be.
I still don't see why trying to bait reactions from mafia is a bad thing... That's the whole point of the game, especially in D1 since we have little to play off of. If no one catches the bait, then no one does. Though I do find it interesting how it was ignored for a bit (as I would think many would do seeing it as just a joke) then Xivii jumps on it. Couple that with the other Xivii reasons you gave :/
I still don't see how I role fished exactly. Bottom line, we all knew Xivii was attracting a lot of attention. We wondered why. People said before that things along the line of would he do that if he was mafia iirc. I simply analyzed the situation. How is trying to decipher situations a scumtell?
~lol vyse do u change ur avatar with like every reply in here to match the emotion of ur post?
I've actually been getting bad vibes from Chibo all game, but couldn't really pinpoint the problem. So right now I support KevinM's offense.
Eh, the reason I didn't bother suspecting him for it was because it's exactly how I would have expected over-analyze-everything-and-do-it-wrong-townie-Chibo to respond to Tom's question. I looked at 188 as just Chibo taking Tom's question in 186 into too much detail. Attempting to read Chibo is hard since he does a lot of scummy things in his normal play. I just try to measure whether his posts seem to have ill-intent behind them or not. I didn't really get a feeling of ill-intention from him and mostly just bad play until 223, which just threw me for some loops. His explanation in 245 made me feel a lot better because it comes off to me as bad play instead of ill-intention. However the part of his post that worries me is how he explains it was a trap for mafia, but doesn't drop a vote on his supposed mafia suspect.EBWOP the more I read your list of, if Xiivi was mafia, if Xiivi was independent, if Xiivi was townie, the more I see you as scum, that post just reeks of scum.
Italics: You basically say you posted something that is suspicious in hopes that mafia are the ones looking to put suspicion on you and no one else is. The point is, townies don't know your alignment Chibo. So if you post something that is suspicious, 'garbage' or not, then town would jump on it if they are attempting to scum-hunt. Rats aren't the only ones that are going to try to grab cheese from a mousetrap. Little hamsters are going to want to try it too. Hopefully you see why "traps" aren't good in this game when you could actually...scumhunt.Before I'm able to read and comment on everything else, about my post 223...
Obviously I must have had a reason for it.
The fact that it's such a dead obvious joke should really say something. Obviously we are not getting role changes, and yes it would be more than easy to ask Steel. The PMs he sent out to everyone were sent about an hour before my reply on the boards, so yes I knew what was going on. So in that case, why would anyone want to say something about it.
What people should have done is ignore it straight up. Does it offer anything to the game? No. Does it somewhat tell my role at all? No. Did multiple people ignore it? Yes, as they just should have imo.
However the reason for posting was to specifically see who would reply to such a garbage post and sort of use it as a reason to pin suspicion on me. I wanted to give an easy way for mafia to somewhat find an excuse to pin suspicion on me (since mafia would know that I'm not one of them), and the fact that Xiivi seems ready to jump down that path.
And if anyone thinks it was an honest slip up by me, you have greatly underestimated me. Also, if I just flat out revealed that I was mafia after that being said, don't you think Steel would have commented on it somehow?
Then why do you take the time in your next two posts [263/282] to shovel doubt on me when you're attempting to look at other players?Even though you think I played a good game in Grammys, there are a lot of things I still don't understand. Especially knowing when and when not to look into the possibility of posting restrictions/abilities. Something you were quick to address before.
This is topical funnily enough, because of what Tom posted.
I would've felt a lot more comfortable if you had posted your giant reply in one post, rather than make a whole bunch. It's clear that something is up (or until you calm down with the multi-posting), but I don't really think it's worth pushing too much since posting a zillion miles an hour doesn't really seem to fit a mafia role to me. Easy to spot PR's I woulda thought would be more town oriented.
I want to try and look at other players first before hounding you (I'd still like to see SuSa respond to the request CK made to go through his perception of each player in the game though). Taking into consideration CK's advice about narrowing the scope of our focus on day 1. (I'll dig for bones later, but not tonight. Assessment is due in about 4 hours, I gotta focus on that when my assignment partner sends our work back to me).
Bold: The only post I've made since I posted my opinions was 262, which was me dodging a prod and giving people more time to actually look into other things instead of further centralizing this game by replying immediately everytime my name is mentioned. If you haven't noticed, I've posted in spurts, hopefully giving people time to actually discuss other things. (As cool as it would be to control the whole day, I think I'll pass.) However, the problem is that most people have only looked at my posting style and look for how they could make it seem scummy instead of why they actually think my posts are scummy.Chibo, attempting to bait a reaction from Mafia by saying what you did in post #223 was just a bad idea. I really don't see the mafia being foolish enough to jump on it and the only person who did, Xiivi, was going through the post histories of every person in this game, of course he was going to analyse and bring up what you posted.
That being said, Xiivi's also chosen to ignore your insinuating that he is mafia and not address it in any of his subsequent posts. But that's something that's worrying me about Xiivi at the moment. Both you (Chibo) and I have made posts that should have garnered a reaction from Xiivi in some shape or form, but he hasn't really responded to anything the past few days.
And then, ironically, you tell people to just post more?
http://www.smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=8703742&postcount=262
This is just me looking at the possibilities, so it's to Xiivi and Chibo to prove why either of them shouldn't be lynched
What did you want addressed? In 203 you said I was a suspect and that I could be working with SuSa and Kat because the 3 of us conversed during the beginning of the game. You aren't saying that it is scummy that we talked in the beginning; you are saying scum has the possibility of doing this. That's cool and all, but what do you want me to do? Run in and say "OMG, no I wouldn't do that as scum, gez air!"?Now that you bring that up, he didn't really respond to me thinking of him as a suspect along with SuSa and Kat in this post.
He just responded with:
Which really didn't address anything specific despite the fact that he was in that list of suspicious canidates for me.
Italics: You basically say you posted something that is suspicious in hopes that mafia are the ones looking to put suspicion on you and no one else is. The point is, townies don't know your alignment Chibo. So if you post something that is suspicious, 'garbage' or not, then town would jump on it if they are attempting to scum-hunt. Rats aren't the only ones that are going to try to grab cheese from a mousetrap. Little hamsters are going to want to try it too. Hopefully you see why "traps" aren't good in this game when you could actually...scumhunt.However the reason for posting was to specifically see who would reply to such a garbage post and sort of use it as a reason to pin suspicion on me. I wanted to give an easy way for mafia to somewhat find an excuse to pin suspicion on me (since mafia would know that I'm not one of them), and the fact that Xiivi seems ready to jump down that path.
Italics: This is just dumb. You're looking at the possibilities, but think two players should "prove why we shouldn't lynch them". So if these two are in danger of being lynched, why aren't you voting either to pressure them?This is just me looking at the possibilities, so it's to Xiivi and Chibo to prove why either of them shouldn't be lynched
@#119: He mentions my number of posts being suspicious, and the rest of the post is simply game theory. I really don't like how it threw that bit out there, and really didn't go much anywhere about why it was something that concerned him. Really this just seemed like he was opening the door for someone else to walk through and take it somewhere.
@#143: He mentions finding multi-posting suspicious, and even mentions the number of posts. But doesn't really go anywhere with that, once again just opening the door. I understand his concerns about high activity, but I'd like to know why he brought up the multi-posting in general. Why is that a concern against just one long post containing lots of posts? Have you never seen that employed before? Is just suspicious, or just unexpected/different Tom?
Everything else Tom has posted I've been fine with, and I don't find these too suspicious or anything, just something to consider.
It's an anti-town play style. Making a bunch of posts in a row just makes things harder for everyone else. It makes cursory glances through the thread worthless, it makes the normally semi-reliable "who's posted" worthless as a gauge for inactivity (by pushing yourself up, and in late game, making everyone still alive look steadily inactive), and it just puts the spot-light straight on yourself.Tom, I am curious as to your suggestions of Xiivi as possibly having a post-count restriction. From the one game I can remember with this, it was for a serial killing indie. Is there any type of common situation with someone that has to post the most? If so, and you honestly believe it's bad, I believe we should test this by having Xiivi's post always be two under a few people. Again, I think this is only if we can find a precedence for indies having this restriction. If Xiivi is an indie, then his entire thing with SuSa could have been just his way of finding the strongest players to ally with later.
Hey Chibo, you know who was my number one townie read before post 223? You.
223 is competing for worst post in this game (right behind the post where SuSa voted himself). In fact, I'm really surprised that SuSa, and only SuSa [228] has commented on it at this point. In fact: air, chaco, tom, CK; why did none of you comment on this post at all?
This post is just awful. Regardless of his alignment, I don't see a good reason for posting that post. If he is mafia, I don't see why he wouldn't just PM Steel that question. If he was town/indie I don't see why he would throw out a big WIFOM mafia claim. All this post did was make me doubt my opinion on Chibo and really mess with my head (mainly because I can both see him making that joke, and I can see him making that mistake).
Chibo, why did you open up this? You yourself said in posts 152/154, you jump on the chance to target BK for his RVS comment. It seemed like you were as unfound of the RVS as I am. One of the main reasons I hate RVS is because I've seen people say things they shouldn't have said and try to write it off as jokes in the RVS. You seemed like you really wanted activity [218/221/225], so why would you throw out an "I'm mafia" joke? This really disturbs me.
I was fine with your normal reckless Chibo play: attempting to clear someone [152], attempting to discuss power roles [180/188], etc... and have learned to not find it annoying from seeing your games. But 223 worries me greatly.
This is persecuting ChiboSempai for an obvious joke, and then you admit to it being a joke, and still say that it disturbs you, even when admitting that you know its a joke totally nullifies anything you should be disturbed by. I hate this.Bold: No Chibo, he wouldn't. He'd sit back quietly and facepalm as you were lynched like a good mod would.
1) I hadn't responded yet to anything, not simply what you said.Bold: The only post I've made since I posted my opinions was 262, which was me dodging a prod and giving people more time to actually look into other things instead of further centralizing this game by replying immediately everytime my name is mentioned. If you haven't noticed, I've posted in spurts, hopefully giving people time to actually discuss other things. (As cool as it would be to control the whole day, I think I'll pass.) However, the problem is that most people have only looked at my posting style and look for how they could make it seem scummy instead of why they actually think my posts are scummy.
Particularly Tom is guilty of this with post 241. If you noticed, he never responds to my questions in post 229. Really, he just tosses me an FoS because "I didn't listen to him and multiposted and because I have the most posts in the game due to it". It isn't until CK posts in 254 why Tom is so worrisome about the posting restriction he's speculating. Really all Tom does is open the door for someone else to walk through continually pointing out that multiposting is bad without actually stating why it worries him. CK's the one who ends up explaining Tom's worries. Really all I feel Tom has done is get overly jumpy when his inactivity was mentioned (235), and just mildly throw doubt one way or another and open doors for others to walk through (which many have, such as you Vyse, when you said there must be something up [246] with my posts) without committing too much of anything.
Well, I can't say that it backfired, as my post did garner a lot of posts about it and reactions that I can read off of. People just don't agree with me play style I suppose. This is only like my 3rd mafia game, I'm still developing new tricks and I personally like trying to bait scum or trick them into getting themselves into certain situations. People say scumhunt, but that's exactly what I'm doing. Whether or not I do it differently than someone else doesn't change anything. If anything having different styles of scumhunting is beneficial to the town having a multi pronged attack all garnering reads for the town to use.I wonder what Chibo has to say.
Also, Xiivi... would you be okay with not having the most posts at the end of the Day?
What I meant was that sure what I said could be condensed easily, but I overtyped. I constantly do. I get caught up in typing.Liking to type doesn't have anything to do with typing multiple paragraphs about being called out on a stupid post. Anyways.
I realize that trying to find out who the double voter is is bad, but I don't see how it was bad to find out how it works. Afterall, for town to take advantage of the power, we would need to deduce how the double vote thing works since the double voter can't straight up tell us themselves as that would involve role claiming, which a power role needs to stay away from.Trying to figure out how it works after you should have realized talking about how the role was bad. That's one instance.
Why is this bad. There was a situation at hand (the Xiivi Susa thing), people said Xiivi was attracting unneeded attention, and I wondered why. I laid out the options and tried to connect a possible role to wondering if and why Xiivi would be cool with all of the attention.The first part is absolutely terrible. You gave some wishy washy idea on how you think certain roles would play as if thats the only way they play. For the newer players thats a terrible idea because if a scum was talking a lot at this point and they listened to your post then the newer players would assume there is no way they could be scum. Why else would they post a lot.
As for the second part, it's just you trying to justify talking about a role that benefits town and is hidden so far. Why would you want to reveal how it works, would you want mafia to have a better chance at killing the person responsible. Because that's all you're doing with your speculation. Because what do we benefit as town by knowing how it works? If the vote is town aligned like it most likely would be, they can follow proper town judgment and we shouldn't have to worry about it beyond that.
You're just flat out digging the bottom of the barrel to find reasons to hate my posts now. I don't see anything wrong with what I said. Is it not true? And I certainly didn't say take it with a grain of salt. If that was the case then I wouldn't have made the analysis on what role could possibly be ok with additional attention in connection with Xiivi per my last post that you quoted and picked apart.Scum doesn't want to get lynched, but neither does town?
Good post.
Also you're basically saying that you should take all of the first 4 pages of arguments with a grain of salt.
Why? A lot of discussion was generated from that.
I honestly at this point have NO idea how Xiivi and Chaco said they have town reads off of you.
It's pretty sad that you're ready to call that a gigantic piece of WIFOM even after I stated exactly why I said it, and the full nature of it is practically meaningless. I did it to bait reactions, which I got. Fine and dandy. Beyond that, since the case is essentially over, it would be no different if you just pretended I never said that. I honestly don't see what's the big deal about it. A good amount of people here skipped over it like it was no big deal, yet I'm shocked that a certain few here are freicken raging over it.Thanks for giving us a gigantic piece of WIFOM for later, when you can say.
IF I WAS MAFIA WOULD I SAY THIS HURR DA DURR.
I say we lynch you now and we never have to deal with that WIFOM, especially if you think the best play for town is fishing for roles and how they work while making blanket statements on how alignments should play.
Case and point I'm voting for you.
I'm sorry, my mistake, it's my 4th. My 3rd game is currently in Day 3. I was mistaken thinking that prior to this 2 games have completed.I want to call BS on the fact that this is only your 3rd mafia game, as you're also a regular player on Mafia Scum, I read your games there too.
The rest of your post is just an appeal to emotion. "I am just scumhunting differently then you guys you can't be upset at me for that just because its different"
I like my vote.
A good amount of people here skipped over it like it was no big deal, yet I'm shocked that a certain few here are freicken raging over it.
Former. If I weren't voting Chibo, I would be voting Xiivi.Tom do you think Xiivi is scum or are you just upset with his playstyle?
Not to be a OMGUS vote,I've been lurking to get some other discussion flowing, but wow....
Not sure if it's me being blind, so I'll go back and check. But I would like to see more from Marc.
I'd like to hear more thoughts on Chibo's "joke" post. It only stood out to me as "lol if I was Mafia I'd never do that, so there is no way I'm Mafia".
With what's been stated the past two pages along with me already having suspicions of Chibo.
Vote:ChiboSempai
CK's request:
1. SuSa - Well, it's me. Hiya. :3
2. Crimson King - I like how he's playing, but haven't seen a TON of him to be sure.
3. Virgilijus - He's playing catchup, so nothing to comment on yet.
4. Vyse - Much like CK, I like how he's playing. I've seen a bit more of him and he doesn't come off as scummy to me.
5. Airgemini - Not really liking recent playing
6. Bowser King - Would like to see more of. Either that or I'm blind.
7. Xiivi - Really, really needs to spot posting multiple posts. Make one large one, you don't need 5-6 posts. Seriously, listen to people and slow the **** down. Besides how you post, I haven't seen anything scummy in your posts. Only a bit suspicious of you.
8. Kataefi - Only from the beginning have I gotten to see a lot of you. I think I'm blind though, but your justifications seemed well enough. I don't see what Air has against you.... <_<
9. ChiboSempai - My vote earlier tells how I feel
10. KevinM - Just like Virg. I'll wait and see.
11. Marc - I think you are the one I've seen the least of. I'll try and go back and find your posts.
12. Tom - I can't even make a comment. I think I'm ****ing up names now. IIRC I miscalled you on something stupid, which was quickly cleared up (my bad), and you haven't done anything to draw my attention to you.
From my list you should be able to tell the 3 I think most scummy.
I was jumpy many a post ago because there weren't meant to be any connections in the first place. This is all that I wanted to make clear. I also have a vote which I think is unfair on me so of course I want to defend myself. I still don't get air's vote on me and I'd prefer it if he unvoted me please.Kat is the one who has been jumpy about people connecting him to people.
I don't really understand this... surely as a townie I'd want to be as alive as possible so I can live longer in the pursuit for mafia. Isn't that the point? If I didn't do a good job defending myself from votes... wouldn't I die from a lynch easily and mafia get closer to winning?Which leads me to believe they're more concerned with their own survival than town winning.
I'm not too keen on this post for some reason. Especially the underlined part. I get the feeling your joke post made wasn't as black and white as simply you baiting and someone taking the bait. You could be mafia joking about being mafia so people would turn around and think "surely he wouldn't dare say such a thing... oh he must be town then..." See what I'm saying?Beyond that, since the case is essentially over, it would be no different if you just pretended I never said that. I honestly don't see what's the big deal about it. A good amount of people here skipped over it like it was no big deal, yet I'm shocked that a certain few here are freicken raging over it.
Firstly I agree with the air thing... I don't know either. What do you mean by being blind? Blind to what?8. Kataefi - Only from the beginning have I gotten to see a lot of you. I think I'm blind though, but your justifications seemed well enough. I don't see what Air has against you.... <_<
So if someone tells you to stop posting in a mafia, you really just stop posting for 3 and a half days and get a prod? Wow.I haven't been posting, because I was kindly told to "shut the **** up, SuSa". Also school+moving? Mean much?
I also never said he was playing catchup. When I abbreviated Virg's. name I ended it with a period and continued my sentence. I was simply stating I didn't have much to comment on because his only posts are the past 2 pages.
Would you rather me replace "I like how he's playing, doesn't seem scummy" with "Townie"?
Also I want to hear more from others. I've already heard what you have to say about it.
So if someone tells you to stop posting in a mafia, you really just stop posting for 3 and a half days and get a prod? Wow.
Don't pull the school and moving johns.
Looking at your post history shows that you posted:
26 times yesterday
25 times on 10/26
and 25 times on 10/25