Kik
The first couple posts are mechanics based, which look good but aren’t actually all that helpful. I’ll note that the first post:
does not match the level of enthusiasm in the next few.
To me, the enthusiasm is there. Let's do this shit implies a general read to go get em attitude versus some other player's posts that say give me time to catch up, I'll be active later or some other crap.
This post is interesting:
Kik accused Fall Down of being scum with Vine. Considering that Fall Down is probably scum, I’m viewing this as setting up a mislynch in case of Fall Down’s death. The most telling thing here is that Kik has a pretty good reason to believe that Fall Down is scum based off this exchange, but he never votes or follows up on it in any way.
Now this is interesting. You have said Angry Birds, Kik, and now Fall Down are scum. That is a full team. I just simply don't find this plausible. This would imply all of the day one derping about getting a massive wonder plan together was all town. As stated previously and a thought you said was on the right track, there was likely scum in the suggestioning. There's something severely off here. Based on my math there is a less than 10% chance of this being the team. Therefore I think one or more of the people you've picked as likely scum isn't.
FYI Post where you say there's likely a split of scum between planning and non planning for your reference: https://www.sc2mafia.com/forum/showth...l=1#post449813
The end question is ridiculous. Of course scum know who their buddies are. I find it very unlikely that Kik asked this question for any other reason than getting town cred.
Agreed this question does look ridiculous.
Good thing Vine wasn’t going to flip scum though, wasn’t it?
I like this pressure. It implies unalignment between the two.
Still no scum hunting from Kik, and he comes out openly against dialogue.
This IMO is a great example of scumhunting. He's not against scumhunting but is against players posting questions and not giving detailed answers. In general a lot of the prodding you have done. In the context of the thread, this was a pressure to you to back your shit up and give reads with reasons. Again, love this post.
Kik was part of the reason we didn’t get rid of Fruit Ninja Day 1. He never bothered to specify which players on the fruit ninja lynch he didn’t like, because he had not actual interest in scumhunting. This post was made to avoid responsibility for what he believed to be a town lynch.
Not really seeing how you're getting this Quizup. I see lots of scumhunting for Kik. I like that they didn't try to lynch a town suspect. Sure I don't like they didn't specify which players they didn't like on the train but this feels like a I have to say something before I have to go for RL type feel versus being scum.
Mislynch on a townie to clear his buddy. Notice that Kik never actually attacked Vine Day 1, because he had no actual interest in scumhunting.
https://www.sc2mafia.com/forum/showth...l=1#post449840
This post here is rather convincing me that a Words With Friends, Angry Birds, Kik, Fall Down team is likely impossible. They point out Vine's case which has some of the exact same scum team and pokes Vine for more information. Kik's arguments off Fall Down scum have been rather consistent throughout the game. Why would scum blatantly call out that Vine has their entire team on the radar for everyone to see? This would likely cause more investigation and more poking/prodding into whether they could be scum. They'd be caught rather quickly.
Side note: Words with Friends first assumed that Angry Birds had been attracted to Tapatalk on the Night Tapatalk died. It’s possible he thought Angry Birds had made the night kill when it was actually another scummate, hence the assumption.
I think this was just Words with Friends trying to be confusing. if you're asking me to believe Words With Friends don't know who actually did the kill shot I find that bullshit. According to the setup, mafia talk during then night. For them not to discuss who kills the target seems to be such a boneheaded move that the scum would be caught by now. We are likely dealing with very experienced scum and serial killer here. Not a boneheaded scum team. There's just been too much going well for them to not have some experienced players.
Oh look, an actual attack on Vine and it’s stupid. The best part is the overreaction to being accused of being Fall Down’s teammate and Vine having Angry Birds as possible scum.
I disagree with it being stupid. The reads were bad. They were new. He called it out. Again I like this post.
Then there’s a dodge of my question about his supposed scumread of Vine.
Which post exactly did they dodge? I can't find it.
Then there’s a soft defense of Words with Friends, with a nice backdoor of “but I'll have to re-examine his posts to be sure.” Notable is that Kik called Words with Friends “WWF” here, which implies that he’s had to type Words with Friends’ name many times before. Additionally, for someone who claimed to be sure of Vine’s scumminess, the last sentence lacks any surety or sense of triumph over Vine being caught by a lure.
Now THIS is actually a post that looks scummy. They were one of the detractors of Vine's reads and now asks when they were called out as bullshit. This one is actually a weird post. Posts were coming in rapidly so I buy the having to check to be sure. About the WWF shorthand bit, a lot of shorthands have come up. I've used Clash in my posts a lot. Does this mean that I'm scum with Clash? Of course not. What it does imply to me is a stream of consciousness to this post and a level of honesty to it.
I’m stopping here for now. More to come.