The difference is that one has been a confirmed strategy for multiple mafia (as I evidenced earlier in the thread) and one was a case of a mafia member trying to emulate the strategy of a VILLAGER to blend in. Askaninjask used this strategy to try to imitate village behavior, so obviously a villager also acting like this shouldn't be (and isn't) out out of the ordinary. Just because one player used it as a ploy to mole the village doesn't mean everyone in the future who acts similarly is mafia. To base a lynch on this shaky evidence is extremely counterproductive.
First of all, is there any evidence that it actually was a deliberate strategy and not just a coincidence of inactive mafia members? Anyways, I don't really find past games relevant, so either way I still find your argument pretty dumb.
Sorry, but that's how I've always handled town reads during the initial days of an NOC game. The village's ability to "scum search" is not hampered or improved in any way if people don't present their town reads publicly, so there is no reason to give mafia the extra information. I don't care if you think it's an excuse, I find it to be helpful to the town so I'm doing it. At least until we establish a pattern to mafia kills. If they continue to kill experienced players I will feel more comfortable revealing some of my town reads. And mafia killing universal town reads is not a "minor issue". If the people who I read as (and are) town stay alive, it allows me to focus more on people that I don't have as good of a read on.
I find it better and safer to conceal concrete town reads as long as possible.
You shouldn't be sticking your reads into a time machine and rediscovering them 4 days later. You should always be re-evaluating. This will tie in to a point I make later about how the Spiffy lynch came about. And yes, in my opinion, you are hurting the ability to find scum by not posting town reads. Sure, you aren't hurting the ability to find the first scum, but once a scum falls, we can analyze their town reads, and who read them as town, and try to find any links. If person x believes person y to be town, and person y believes person x to be town, and one of them flips scum, that is a bit of evidence that could lead to the other being scum. Nothing is ever 100% in NOC, but the more ties like that we have, the better. And honestly, at this point, you should have at least some read on everybody.
You say yourself that LightWolf hadn't posted much recently. How can my opinion of him change if he hasn't posted anything that could potentially change it? The only reason I was so adamant about voting Jalmont was because multiple times I saw him view the thread and not post anything new. LightWolf had also mentioned activity issues earlier, so his lack of posts didn't really concern me.
Once again taking the minor points of my argument and amplifying them. I said I was giving you an OK for Lightwolf, but you didn't address the attitude you have regarding not updating reads, which was evidenced in the post before I responded where your reads were essentially "I already said why they are bad"
Please tell me I'm not the only one who acknowledges this complete bullshit reasoning that zorbees continuously falls back on. This reason for expecting me or Empoof has nothing to do with the quality of our contributions, so I don't know why he continues to include it as justification for scum reads...
It isn't complete bullshit, and I'm not even using it as a major argument, so stop acting like I am. I just find it odd that there exist people whom no one questions, despite nothing being provable in this game. The fact that you felt like you had to respond to this when it wasn't even directed at you makes me feel like you're just trying to appeal to everyone that maybe some of your logic will stick and people won't suspect you.
Walrein if something about me had been "nagging at you for awhile" then why did it take you one vote for me (askaninjask) and a voiced suspicion of me (zorbees) to finally bring it up. Why didn't you say anything on Day 1? Were you too busy hammering a vote? ;)
Walrein also explain to me why you hippocritically think I'm not being contributional when you post travesties such as your "analyses" of More Cowbell and Infinity.Cypher which just summarized their posts (there may have been others) as well as pretty much the ENTIRE end half of your Day 1 and so far all of Day 2.
This brings me to another point. As a villager, if I'm not called out on the quality of my posting, I am going to continue posting like that because I have no reason to think I'm not being helpful. I genuinely thought (and still think) my posts were fine and helpful on Day 1, but ALL OF A SUDDEN multiple players find that not to be the case. It took an entire Day/Night phase (and a reset in the votes) for people to "realize" that my posts were suspicious. This is the main reason why I think there is some mafia involvement in my lynch. Primarily Walrein and zorbees. Not as much askaninjask and Metal Sonic because I've liked all of aska's posts thus far and Metal Sonic actually expressed some discontent with my posts on Day 1 (but didn't really elaborate on it).
You should know that it can be awfully hard to keep up with everything that happens in the game. Sometimes it takes someone else saying "maybe this guy isn't so good..." for you to double-check, and confirm for yourself that you agree. If you take a look, I've been doing a lot of "retrospectives" today, looking back at a user's posting history to determine my opinion of him. There is nothing wrong with this, and I don't understand why you think there is. And, I know it is WIFOM, but do you honestly think that the mafia would go on such a blatant crusade against you to lynch you? There are plenty of targets being discussed, what makes you so special?
The only other slight scum read I have at the moment is Eagle4 because of the "whole lot of nothing" he posted as his thoughts earlier on (the post that Jalmont has quoted). Plus his keeping track of who hadn't posted since the beginning of Day 2 seems like filler content and isn't relevant nor helpful.
I wonder who this reminds me of...