Slickwilde: Mod confirmed town. I have no regard for his play right now. Like, I want somebody I can trust to lead pushes and give opinions, but so far he's been confused, then just sheeped other people's opinions. Zaixl needs to go sooner than later if this is how he plays, but in the meantime we need information. Slick is not leading us to that information. I'd almost hope that he eats the nk rather than a different likely town player, but his death in the night wouldn't give us any information. So instead I hope he starts posting stronger tomorrow after he has more to go off of.
Fandangox: Has he done anything recently? All I can recall is him echoing my opinion about the dayvig, but he hasn't dropped it to move onto anything else? I had him all the way up here in the town section because I felt myself agreeing with the things he said and he wasn't getting involved in petty fights, but his posting really dropped off and he hasn't pushed anything, and his recent stuff has just been more obsession with the dayvig. Like, I appreciate that people agree with me that Glyph's action was hella scummy, but Glyph's stuff in the middle of the thread was really really good. So I'm not sure if Fandangox is wrong!town, scum trying to take advantage of the early Glyph doubt to get a PR lynched today, or whether my change of opinion was a little premature. I think that either way, he falls down to south of sleb, and I'll review him later. Probably not a lynch candidate today unless something really jumps out at me.
Maven: Similar situation to Fandangox. Had him very towny because I felt like his opinions were synching with mine, but his posting fell way off. He's recently starting going through the thread again, and has started attacking Glyph in a big way. His continued attention to Glyph feels a lot more genuine than Fandangox's though? Like, if one of the two of them is trying to coast on town vs town fights, its definitely Fandangox and not him. His stuff makes me feel less sure on Glyph, but not by a lot. He kind of feels town, but only a lean. I'll have to see how his continued pressure goes.
Glyph: He was looking really good in the middle of the thread where it felt like he was the only person pushing town forward, but his tunnel on J is way less good (though I think it has something to it? Note: definitely look into this). Like, really? You'd kill yourself to kill J? That's way too sure of a read this early, especially a read that's developed from you aggroing him right out the gate. I think that he's one of the player's that I'm really solid town on though. I just have some niggling doubts about the dayvig thing. His response to recent stuff from Maven of "We've already been over this so I'm ignoring it" is a very null response though. Town wants to move on and not waste time defending, scum wants sweep their earlier scummy actions under the rug. Honestly, I'd like to see how he'd reach out to specific players to actually build a J wagon, rather than just insisting that he's right.
Soup: I initially thought that Soup's hard defend on Glyph right out of the gates was kind of scummy because it felt like it was saying "Nothing to see here, move along" at a point in the thread where there was something to see there. Him dismissing my mechanics wallpost as me being a "loon" was equally baffling, but since I've reconsidered Glyph, he's looked better on those fronts. His pressure on Spak, despite a couple gaps, felt genuine to me and he was definitely producing content for the thread at several times when nobody else was. That said, I can't really remember anything he's done recently besides beg the thread to not move quite so fast so the inactives have time to catch up. As one of those inactives, I don't really appreciate that thought. Sure, the thread is this moving wall of text, but it being that is way better than it being dead. Slight town lean.
FML: He's been around the thread, and engaging in a way that doesn't raise any red flags to me. His pushes have been kind of weak, but that's an accusation that could be leveled at half the playerbase at the moment. Gut says slight town lean, but I'm a player that likes to go off more than that. Probably the kind of slot that I can get a better read on if I bounce some questions about the gamestate off them
BarDuIL: Wow, an actual town player. I wish he had participated in the thread sooner than he had. Scum don't go out of there way to try to break up fights, especially fights between strong players that are dominating discussion. Like, the only way I see his current stuff as scummy is if he's buddies with J. But that really doesn't make sense either, because he really didn't need to make a stink in the thread to keep J from getting lynched, because looking at votals, J has /never/ gathered enough pressure toDay to be under threat of getting lynched. His targets seem "easy" , but that's only because town really does need to force those slots to do something toDay. Letting scum coast and not generate interactions is the easiest way to lose the game later, and letting town lurk just lets scum bank on later mislynches.
Laundry: I'm not really sure how to approach this slot. I like the forcefulness of their pushes, which is sadly missing from most of the rest of the game, and their quote walls feel like legit scumhunting. But I also get the feeling that they're the kind of player that plays the same regardless of alignment, and I hate their involvement in the long cat fight about meta. Regardless, way too useful to even consider lynching today. Town lean for now.
Red Ryu: Feels like the bargain bin combination of Laundry and BarDuiL. He's put a lot of words in the thread, but I can't really think of anything the slot's down that's unique to it besides the minor push on Moosy, which is deserved but not going anywhere so far. Several other players have said that this feels like scumRyu for the lack of effort, and I'm not inclined to disagree. Slight scum.
J: I'm going to admit, I'm having a hard time following both sides of the argument around J because its so mired in both the whole dayvig thing, and site meta I know nothing about. I do absolutely hate his continued AtE though, and the way that everything he talks about seems to come back to him. At a couple points, I felt like he was doing some legit scumhunting, but his followup has been atrocious. I'm willing to cut him some slack for IRL, but I'd rather he didn't keep bringing it up in the thread. Like, let your posting frequency stand by itself, there's no reason to keep reminding us that you have out of thread reasons to not post. That just looks guilty. All of the rest of us have out of thread reasons to not post either.
Spak: I hate to rate somebody that got caught in a defensive death spiral early so low on my wall, but his opinions mostly suck. For how much he's posted in the thread, he has a suprisingly low number of interactions with players not named J and Soup, and he's been way more worried about how his posting looks than in what his posting accomplishes. I also really didn't like his reason for townreading me in his wall post, because it felt like he was just trying to appease me after I pressured him for a vote and he put it somewhere easy.
Moosy: I think that the unifying theme for Moosy's posts is "Didn't feel like any critical thought went into this". He randomly shares reads with no backup, as if to be able to point to them later and say "See! I was sharing reads, and that makes me a town player with a consistent worldview". His opinion on Glyph is also stuck in the beginning of the thread, and isn't considering anything later, but he didn't really strongly give that opinion early, so it feels like he's trying to take advantage of other people's arguments and the mood of the thread. Especially since he's one of the actually viable lynch candidates, and getting another viable wagon in case attention turns on him would be pretty important. Maybe his current push will give me more to think about.
Zaixl: Comes off as a complete new player. The wagon on him has built up way faster than I'm comfortable with, and the fact that there isn't really a viable alternative either means that scum are happy with the gamestate (Zaixl is town, most of the wagon is town), that scum have tried to change the gamestate and failed (Zaixl is scum, most of the wagon is town, one of the failed counterswagons is scum on town), or that scum have abandoned him (Zaixl is scum, part of the wagon is bussing). So far, I'm leaning towards either option 1 or option 3. I don't want to abandon pressure on somebody that's failed to even remotely either defend himself -OR- try to spend the end of his life getting useful things done for town, but we really do need two viable wagons for co-alignment info. Hmm . . .
Raziek: Policy Lynch. Would really like to see this slot replaced.
This puts me at:
-Town-
SlickWylde
BarDuIL
Glyph
Laundry
Soup
FML
Maven
-Null-
Fandangox
Red Ryu
J
Spak
Moosy
Zaixl
-Scum-
Raziek
-Pls Replace-
