JaggedJimmyJay wrote:thellama73 wrote:I still feel good about Wilgy and McDougall. I still feel bad about JJJ. He is a discussion steerer. MP is probably okay.
Sorry for not being more active, lads. Been busy with other things.
Yes, I am a discussion steerer. I steer discussions. Why is that bad? We've discussed at least once I believe outside this game how I feel a townie can be more productive from a position of leadership, and I like to lead through my analysis and the generation of content -- that often implies I am steering the game thread in some way or another. That doesn't mean I am restricting other players to doing what I say or to voting only for those I suspect, it means I am facilitating conversation. Point to a specific example in this game of me "steering discussion" in such a way that you believe my motives to be insincere.
It's not why is that bad, the question is how CAN that be bad. The answer is, it can be bad because having the primary influencer in the game steering discussion from the central position has a "hiding in plain sight effect." Now, you know this right.
I was not really very suspicious of
you for what you are doing as much as I am always concerned about supertown Jimmy not being town. Forget the silly posts I've made, but this is a fair thing to be cautious about and I am sure when you see me supertowning away a part of you remains forever skeptical no matter what I am actually saying. It's always a prevailing concern with a player taking the dominant position.
A recent example of supertown Jimmy doing exactly what I fear he is doing here, was in the RYM game I played last. You won that game with your scum team with minimal casualties after I got mislynched for playing like a fool and fake claiming scum remember? You were playing that game just like this one. You also have played many civ games just like this one. So, in and of itself, the behaviour is not suspicion worthy, much less lynch worthy.
However, the post I am replying to overlooks this point completely. The way you structure your argument overlooks the fact that what you are doing is suspicious on merit and you are asking your adversary to do something you know is likely to trip them up. It's manipulative.