All that tells me is that the civilians had more time than I did in this particular case.JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Tue Aug 21, 2018 1:58 amIt doesn't have to be "impressive", but there is so much strategic value to it. MP blowing the thread up, even with a high spam content, drove up the posting rate of other players. In so doing, our capacity to judge everyone else improved accordingly, and we eliminated more than half of the players from the suspect pool before we even had to lynch the first person.Epignosis wrote: ↑Tue Aug 21, 2018 1:55 amI disagree, but then what do I know when I only got to read half the thread?JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Tue Aug 21, 2018 1:46 am Y'all ready for JJJ to annoy you?
You prepped for this irritation?
Whether everyone could keep up or not, the pace of Days 0 and 1 was the biggest reason this game turned out the way it did.
If 25% of your posts are spam, and you have 1,000 posts, that's 250 posts other civilians have to deal with that have nothing to do with anything.
Frankly, I am never going to be impressed just because somebody posts a lot. That's easy to fake. I can do it (and have done it) if I have the time.
The civilians showed themselves brightly from the word GO, and that simply cannot happen in a quieter thread.
I read every post when I play, whether there are 100 or 1000 to go, because that's the only way I can get a full picture on people. I sympathize with DH, who is a good player, but he could never keep up, could he? You almost lynched him for it. I'm the host, and I couldn't keep up. When you get to a series of posts like these:
What does that do?
There's being active, and then there's being happy that your post count is higher than everybody else's.
I don't subscribe to the latter being a good strategy long term.
What I mean is this (and Alex, I hope you don't take offense- I'm talking postgame analysis here, so please chime in, because I'd love to hear where you stand here):
If I were a player in this game, I would get lynched, simply because I did not have the time or ability to read anything other people wrote because a handful of people were dominating the thread. As the host, I got tired, I got bored, and I got disengaged. To me, there's an obligation to keep things active as a civilian player, sure...but then there's an obligation to keep things manageable for fellow civilians, no?
Posting the equivalent of, "I need to remind myself to read Epignosis" isn't accomplishing anything. Can't civilian posters be economical with their posts and still accomplish their work? If the answer is no, and the only way to win is to drown out everybody else, then how effective are they really?
Something to think about, I believe.
