After FMXIV having just ended, I have a question.
As a relatively active participant in day chat, I began to see some chatter toward the end of identifying scum through meta-ish means. Ambient unfortunately had some major lurking and AFK issues that he had to deal with & he dealt with it in the way that I feel I would have if I were in his shoes - he modkilled the lurking townie bitches.
Now, the problem came in when he didn't modkill scum for being lurkers. We kind of used this as a way to find a couple of the scum. It's kind of metagaming, but town was at a disadvantage because we had so many of our lurking townies modkilled.
My question to everyone is how this problem could have been handled any differently. I had a similar issue in GGG vs SS where I didn't wanna modkill a lurking scum because it would have been such a big deal and could have broken the game, so I didn't. Luckily he didn't AFK the whole game, but what should I have done if he hadn't come back?
Any ideas?