RE: Murder By The Book - Day 2: The Invisible Man
03-31-2014, 08:34 AM
Thanks for answering, Garuru!
The reason I pose questions in the vein of "what do you think of this one guy" is that a) if you're a lurker who's been keeping up with new posts in the thread, but haven't really been synthesising the information, then narrowing the focus helps you see connections without getting bogged down. I imagine most people do it by instinct for all mentions of themselves (which is why the easiest player to defend is yourself), but the trick's to extrapolate that skill to analyse your fellow players.
By contrast, slapping votes on a lurker/newbie and saying "get in here and talk" doesn't give them much to work with. It's not a dammingly anti-town sentiment, but I feel giving key questions to help a re-reader focus their search is a more pro-town strategy. On the bigger scale, I like to see who parrots who, what posts people interpret differently, things like that.
My choice of you and Gnauga was an arbitrary pick amongst the players in the range from semi-active to lower-end-of-most-active range. You had enough contentful posts that someone re-reading has enough to look at, plus other people mention you guys enough that there's something to work with. With a fifteen-page thread, it's a manageable matter of scrolling through and ctrl-fing the player under investigation's name! Which is arguably superior to an "All posts by user" search because you're stripped of much interpersonal context.
Lurkers? Here's how I'd break up the playerlist:
Active players
The Bitch In Chief
Slorange
Granola
TrueGreen
Akumu
Gnauga
Seedy
Garuru
They exist, but, like, kinda peripherally?
Eberron, since the pressure was removed
Nova
Sotek
donut
Palamedes
Contributed recently, oh baby, keep it up
Dalm
Bigro
Solaris
Chwoka
AgentBlue
Lurking/Inactive
Mirdini
Crowslot
So the five in TE,B,L,KP? should be watched for signs they're slipping under the radar. They've either contributed to discussions earlier, but are fading out more recently (Palamedes, Eberron); or, they've had a persistent thread presence but haven't (to my recollections without re-reading) offered more than minimally-explained votes.
CR,OB,KIU features a lot of the people who (as best I can tell) have less "serious mafia" experience. They need lots of hugs and encouragement so they can have a go accusing all us loud folk of being heinous liars and the like.
The reason I pose questions in the vein of "what do you think of this one guy" is that a) if you're a lurker who's been keeping up with new posts in the thread, but haven't really been synthesising the information, then narrowing the focus helps you see connections without getting bogged down. I imagine most people do it by instinct for all mentions of themselves (which is why the easiest player to defend is yourself), but the trick's to extrapolate that skill to analyse your fellow players.
By contrast, slapping votes on a lurker/newbie and saying "get in here and talk" doesn't give them much to work with. It's not a dammingly anti-town sentiment, but I feel giving key questions to help a re-reader focus their search is a more pro-town strategy. On the bigger scale, I like to see who parrots who, what posts people interpret differently, things like that.
My choice of you and Gnauga was an arbitrary pick amongst the players in the range from semi-active to lower-end-of-most-active range. You had enough contentful posts that someone re-reading has enough to look at, plus other people mention you guys enough that there's something to work with. With a fifteen-page thread, it's a manageable matter of scrolling through and ctrl-fing the player under investigation's name! Which is arguably superior to an "All posts by user" search because you're stripped of much interpersonal context.
Lurkers? Here's how I'd break up the playerlist:
Active players
The Bitch In Chief
Slorange
Granola
TrueGreen
Akumu
Gnauga
Seedy
Garuru
They exist, but, like, kinda peripherally?
Eberron, since the pressure was removed
Nova
Sotek
donut
Palamedes
Contributed recently, oh baby, keep it up
Dalm
Bigro
Solaris
Chwoka
AgentBlue
Lurking/Inactive
Mirdini
Crowslot
So the five in TE,B,L,KP? should be watched for signs they're slipping under the radar. They've either contributed to discussions earlier, but are fading out more recently (Palamedes, Eberron); or, they've had a persistent thread presence but haven't (to my recollections without re-reading) offered more than minimally-explained votes.
CR,OB,KIU features a lot of the people who (as best I can tell) have less "serious mafia" experience. They need lots of hugs and encouragement so they can have a go accusing all us loud folk of being heinous liars and the like.
peace to the unsung peace to the martyrs | i'm johnny rotten appleseed
clouds is shaky love | broke as hell but i got a bunch of ringtones
eyes blood red bruise aubergine | Sue took something now Sue doesn't sleep | saint average, day in the life of
woke up in the noon smelling doom and death | out the house, great outdoors
staying warm in arctic blizzard | that's my battle 'til I get inanimate | still up in the same clothes living like a gameshow
clouds is shaky love | broke as hell but i got a bunch of ringtones
eyes blood red bruise aubergine | Sue took something now Sue doesn't sleep | saint average, day in the life of
woke up in the noon smelling doom and death | out the house, great outdoors
staying warm in arctic blizzard | that's my battle 'til I get inanimate | still up in the same clothes living like a gameshow