Mafia Round 54 - METROID

[Bong Lover]

RolStoppable said:

Bong Lover said:

If I recall he was confused by the missing Quick Topic thread, much like I was myself when the question came in but I didn't mention it in my reply. Of course, now that I've slept on it and thought about it a little more it's entirely possible that he's been coached by scum to say what he says? I don't remeber how long after the original question that he replied but I have a feeling there would be plenty of time for scum to interfere and give him an acceptable reply.

Looking at it now, he again posts something to reinforce how he doesn't understand the game and is very new, which does seem a little redundant. Could it be scum trying to paint a picture of him as lost and unskilled in the ways of the game? I guess anything is possible but I can't help shake the feeling that I am getting overly paranoid with that line of reasoning.

I didn't recall any confusion regarding quicktopics on seth's part and I didn't find any such post when looking through the thread again. Maybe you are mixing this up with linkz's troll post in response to hatmoza?

Paranoia is part of the game, because virtually every situation can be interpreted or twisted to mean two very different things. seth could be nervous town who simply isn't sure what to do (being afraid of drawing unwarranted suspicion on himself) or he could be scum who pretends to be lost, because it's easy for a newbie to get by with that line of posting, at least for a while. If scum is allowed to Day-talk in their quicktopic (this rule isn't set in stone and up to the host to decide), then seth could be easily coached into saying these things.

Personally, my Day 1 reads are terrible, so I don't read too much into little things. I need more than a handful of posts to judge people properly, that's why I tend to encourage everyone to play the game and why I despise lurking. Also, in seth's case, there's this unwritten rule that we don't give newbies a hard time on Day 1 and we would only lynch them, if they made one hell of a slip. This doesn't mean that newbies should see Day 1 as a free pass though, because low or bad activity on Day 1 will come back to haunt them eventually, regardless of their alignment.

That is exactly it, and a stark wake up call to not trust my own memory! So all bets are off with my Sethnintendo nonsense.

What a humbling game, I am slipping up left and right. I feel great about the unwritten rule about not giving new players too hard of a time day 1 :)