Grate. First off, rereading the beginning of D1 I'm reminded of just how
spectacularly dumb ED1 tends to be, and even then this game seems to be an outlier or something. Christ, Ecthel, it's a jokevote,
how are you expecting it to be serious? Off what information
can you even base a serious vote about FOUR HOURS INTO DAY FREAKING ONE?
Zakeri: while I see your point, at the same time, it really was just a jokevote, which is why I'm not going to read too much into NeoSerela sidestepping your question. Hmm. Not sure, actually. Interesting point, will consider it.
Anyway, that's enough of that. Time for some wagonalysis on the headcrabs wagon, which really is quite bizarre in how it came about:
Serp - Jokevote
Sodium Hydrogen Phosphate -
Not liking this post at all. Seriously. There's a lot of discussion about Ecthel, reaching the conclusion that he's DerpTown (plausible imho), and then about two lines about headcrabs, followed by what is basically a ProdVote(TM) (see below on discussion as to why ProdVotes(TM) are bad and also INCREDIBLY Scummy) on headcrabs, moving off of NEETz. Anyway, looks pretty bad, will elaborate below. Continuing on with the wagon... (note that it's something like a day into D1 and headcrabs is at L-5.
Sakana - Deadline ProdVote (which is far less awful than the general case, but still bad), for charges of... cheerleading a wagon without voting, and not being around in the later portion of the day. This is not someone you lynch D1, LAL
does not work on D1. Do not make me bring out der F?hrer himself to explain this to you guize, seriously.
NeoSerela - herp derp headcrabs has vanished for 36 hours and we need to lynch someone WHY NOT LYNCH HIM. Awful, for reasons which should be painfully obvious and partly stated above for Sakana, but to elaborate here on reasons specific to Serela: hopping on an inactive D1 is really easy, as they cannot defend themselves, and given the choice between someone you
actually think is Scummy by your own admission (i.e. Ecthel), you vote for the inactive instead. Why?
Everything after this is over the word limitEcthel - Godawful, but the "it's-him-or-me" argument is not inherently a Scummy one. Apart from that, Ecthel's awfulness has already been discussed in-thread so far to death, I'm not sure what to make of him personally but I'm still leaning DerpTown atm, with a slight bit of doubt to it (some of his statements aren't just dumb, but also Scummy and dumb, for instance his statement on a random lynch being better than No Lynch - which is true, but a false dichotomy, especially given there still being about 5 hours in the day, and NeoSerela at minimum as an alternate wagon - why have you said practically nothing about NeoSerela, Ecthel?)
Zakeri,
h_w - Deadline Switch, Quasi-Ninja-Hammer. Nothing really to say here, mostly null tells all around.
If Scum are likely to be on such a wagon (which is extremely likely), they'd probably be near the middle, and sure enough, there's plenty of awful to be traded between Sodium Carbonate and NeoSerela. At this moment, I think that Sodium Thiocyanate looks
slllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllightly worse, therefore
##Vote: Sodium LevothyroxineAs for why ProdVotes(TM) are Scummy: because they're an easy way to park a vote: if the person never responds, they can't fight back and whee, EasyLynch(TM), and if they do, such votes are removed upon seeing
any content, not necessarily
good-quality content (if a vote is placed as a ProdVote(TM) but then stays upon seeing bad content from the person in question who just returned, it is no longer inherently Scummy as a ProdVote(TM) anymore, for instance), and thus just an easy, safe way to park a vote with no danger of accidentally lynching a Scumbuddy or accidentally being on a really awful Townie wagon that makes you look extremely suspicious. Ergo, don't do this: if someone is lurking, LAL. If someone is being inactive to the point where modprods occur, let the mod take care of it. If he's habitually posting only as a result of being prodded by the mod, see: LAL. Otherwise, don't vote someone just because he isn't around: LAL does not work that way guize. Christ.