Can we stop voting out of frustration and start voting for scumminess, please?
Let's go spoon-feed for a moment, since Suwako is catching a lot of flak for a Day 1 approach that we share (and yet no one has voted me for it).
Day 1 is a total crapshoot, barring a Night 0 or incredibly abnormal antics that lead to good luck, such as Seniwac's out-of-left-field VT claim in the last game that a noobscum fell for hook, line and sucker. Day 1 cases almost invariably have no merit, because there's no solid information to go on. I'm going to pluck a piece from Suwako's most recent post that people seem to have missed in their rage.
Scumhunting comes from looking for players behaving as though they are part of an informed minority trying to avoid their faction being lynched. It only really starts when you get some flips and hard evidence to work with. Which means that yes indeed, there's usually no such thing as a day 1 scum lynch unless the scum are REALLY TERRIBLE or town is REALLY GOOD. I prefer not to assume scum are terrible, and town sure ain't good here.
In layman's terms, this says that
a case will only really start to have merit when it's based on flips and interactions with those people that flipped, or it is founded in information gained from a power role. On Day 1, no power roles have activated yet, and no one has died, meaning we have no flips to work off of. Thus the overwhelming majority of Day 1 cases are meaningless and will be ignored in the long run. Don't believe this? Check the records. How often have we lynched scum on Day 1? Had it
ever happened before Zengar, who can be chalked up to a Seniwac-induced fluke? The back of my mind seems to think it happened exactly once before that but I can't remember who or what game it was, so I'm not really counting it as reliable.
This ties in to why Suwako and I are posting so little (or at least I'm trying to), and why I presume Kiro and Serpentarius aren't posting a whole lot since they're in the group of players I'd expect to get it as well. There's not much to say, so we're not saying much. More importantly, we're not wasting time and clogging up the thread with massive walls about what will amount to nothing once Day 2 rolls around and we have flips to work with (and investigative roles will have some extra info). Scum's job is to confuse and misdirect, and walls of text and silly arguments make for excellent obfuscation tools. Let people waste time and get pissy with each other, it'll lead to an easy mislynch and could cause distractions (and re-reaid pain) down the road. Now obviously not everyone who posts walls is scum, and scum are more than likely not to post walls themselves since they have even less to say on Day 1 than town do, so what they'll commonly try to do is fan the flames of obfuscation by silently encouraging walls and rage. Maybe they'll try to keep a particularly pointless argument going by pressing exactly the right buttons. There are plenty of ways to do this.
All of this is why Suwako (and myself, as much as I've been trying) is kicking back her heels and waiting for Day 2 to start. We'll all have a flip or two to work with and some people will have extra info. Much better than the continuous WIFOM we have rolling right now. There's no need to add to the already deafening level of noise.
So can we please stop voting for Suwako because we don't understand/disagree with her playstyle? Even in the grand scheme of shitty Day 1 cases, that method ranks very highly amongst the most worthless. Find someone that's been trying to hide in plain sight, or someone that's been fanning the flames. Better than someone that clearly intends to work to find scum with flips.
Cut by the goddess in question. Will respond in a separate post.
