Murder By The Book - Ender's Game

Schazer, why did you try for a speedlynch on cyber? That pretty obviously wasn't going to happen in the time we had left, and from my perspective it could be an excuse to not be on eberron's wagon while they die (while acting like you're trying to prevent it). I mean, maybe you'd generally be more subtle than that, but...

I concede it could've looked like a ploy to give plausible deniability in the event Eberron got lynched and flipped town, and yeah it was poorly-timed, but (and you've only got my word here) Dayend blindsided me (literally an hour after my vote on Cyber, which was an hour before his post). I was expecting more time, but wanted to broadcast the following before dayend:

"heyo, other people on the Eberron wagon talked a lot today, and honestly they're all skeevy to some extent with the possible exception of Gnauga, but Cyber popped in out of nowhere and I don't want that to go unremarked-upon".

If I could control a must lynch vote at that point and had to choose between Cyber and Eberron, I would've slammed Cyber. Like I said, everyone else on the wagon was making me raise eyebrows, but Cyber was lurky and Eberron was active and on D1? I don't think it's fair to turn on someone, especially a newbie, for having a go and running their mouth off a bit. I mean, in the long-term talky scum are better for the town than lurky scum!

This'd be Present Me trying to hock more credit off to Past Me than that conniving minx deserves, but I wanted to bring Cyber's overall untownly behaviours to the attention of anybody with a night action who was evaluating targets. So I guess Slorange and I think on similar wavelengths, though on reflection I'm wondering why he cited Cyber's behaviour alone as the singular reason to Lightningrod him, rather than concurring with my read of him.

And like, what you say about a post-nolynch janitoring does make sense. It's giving me less to work with without knowing Cyber's identity, and Slorange makes a fair point that announcing that Cyber's not proven town is the kind of pro-town action that mafia would forego. Like, if Slorange were a mafia janitor, I guess there's some advantage in keeping hope alive that Cyber was scum, in the hope town would get complacent, but it's not worth sticking your neck out like Slorange done did.

Anyway the tl;dr is I tried a futile wagon because I thought Cyber needed looking at, and I'm constantly trying to care less about putting my vote in appears-to-be-scummy places. A vote seemed a louder "statement" than "Guys guys guys Cyber is a thing", so I voted. Sorry it's not much more complicated than that.