Sorry to hear it, Elo! Hope the busyness is a good thing though.
Snow Dog wrote:Elohcin wrote:I apologize for not being involved. It has been a hell of a week. And it doesn't look like it's slowing down anytime soon. There are some awesome people playing this game and I want to play, but I just don't see the time to do it. I will be asking for a replacement.
That's sad.
MP it looks like you made that new rainbow list to appear more in line with your civ rainbows of yore. I don't know anything about these though as they are a new phenomena to me. Do you update them daily and were the examples Epi showed all day 1 examples?
Lucky for you I obsessively check this game, and thus I often "lie" about "leaving" the thread even when I have every intention to do so, and I have like 15 minutes before I need to head down to my classroom. :P
Yes, these are new to you, so I should have explained earlier. Let me elaborate and then hopefully my behavior will make more sense.
I discovered rainbow lists when I started playing over on the now defunct (RIP) RYM OT message boards and JaggedJimmyJay, Sloonei, etc. employed them to what I witnessed as great success for organizing one's own thoughts and for mobilizing town into cooperation.
Specifically, my personal motivation for creating rainbow lists is threefold as a member of the town.
1. Creating a rainbow list forces me to consider and assess every player which assists in my baddie hunting in that it helps keep me on task: (i) I know which players warrant further examination due to being a mafia read, (ii) I know which players warrant further examination because despite their placement I felt less confident in placing them there (whether it is due to a lack of content on their part and thus it was difficult for me to make an assessment, whether my gut and my head are disagreeing, whether I am torn overall because they have seemed town and mafia about equally, etc.), and (iii) I know which players warrant tinfoil scrutiny if it becomes clear that I am trusting them for perhaps too dubious of reasons. This is all significant because I found in previous games (many that you played with me, for example) that it was difficult to track my own thoughts on players, that I wasn't critically assessing too many players and folks were slipping through the cracks, that I felt directionless and unsure how to proceed with trying to figure out who was bad and how, etc., and upon discovery of this method I found it much easier to structure and organize my own thoughts and feelings on everyone else for my benefit. So they serve not only as a helpful framework for me to organize my thoughts, but also force me to make assessments I probably wouldn't have otherwise, AND they provide a road map for me to tell myself "OK, these are the things you need to focus on". If there are players I'm feeling unsure of and/or cannot recall much of their content, after forcing myself to place them on the rainbow list (likely with a gut-based assessment), I can thereafter dig into that player's posts in isolation (by clicking the "In Topic" deal below their screenname on any post) and conduct an analysis (called an ISO, you'll see at least one of these from me later for sure) and try to get a better idea of how I feel about someone's content.
(2) Further, a rainbow list assists other players in developing an assessment of me (or at least, that's the theory) because it displays all of my thoughts about everyone transparently. Such a list provides detailed feedback as to how I am currently feeling about every other player in the game. The level of detail in each list depends on the explanations within, I have not yet had the opportunity and/or seen the motivation to provide thoroughly detailed accompanying explanations for all of my rainbow reads just yet as it is still early and I've been preoccupied.
(3) Lastly, rainbow lists also invite question and discussion among other thread participants about sources of agreement or disagreement. I like to 'compare rainbows' with other players, especially those I am town reading, because I crave feedback and work better when other people are continuously assessing my reads (because I feel I am not the best at baddie hunting frankly) and I think town as a general unit benefits when everyone is critically assessing everyone else's reads. Anything to help facilitate that process is a good thing in my mind.
My motivation for creating rainbow lists is simple as a member of the mafia: Seem like I'm doing all of those things for the benefit of the town.
Hopefully all of that makes my motivation for using this method clearer. Others on the site have heavily criticized rainbow lists as 'pointless', etc., so not everyone finds them useful. You can get someone else's perspective on that matter as to why they do not find them worth undertaking.
Now I have to depart, but I can answer whatever other questions or concerns you have for me later. Probably 24 hours or so.