So addressing More Cowbell now who had posted while I was writing this. See this is why I can't keep looking away from you, why would you think I mean the MeowMixx lynch where your reason was unrelated to neighbourhood rules, by that extension everyone's was. I mean the acidphoenix push where you were the most articulate poster jumping on him for stating a rule some didn't know about, but the difference is you SHOULDN'T have known about it in the first place, yet you questioned him just as much.
At the moment I voted for acidphoenix, it was primarily because what he said sounded odd to me, so that was a reason for me to vote on him. There was little else to go by, so why not apply a bit of pressure to get answers out of him? Besides my first post on him, I never pursued an acidphoenix lynch.
More Cowbell: Going back to my last post, the one directed at you, and your response. I can't say I follow your reasoning. You initially thought neighborhoods tended to promote WIFOM situations and therefore did not try and join one. While your claim may be true, I don't agree with the conclusion you derived from it. So what if they promote WIFOM situations? You always have the option of parsing information you deem useless and retaining information you deem significant. I just don't see why you would ever deliberately cut yourself off from a form of possibly meaningful communication, especially since you've been constantly prompting people to post more in this thread. High posting activity in this thread and high posting activity in a neighborhood are not mutually exclusive unless you deliberately make it so.
Having said that, you said you changed your mind, but by what? acidphoenix's back-and-forth with his neighbor? That basically ended up being another WIFOM situation, yet you now assert that neighborhoods are going to be critical for scumhunting? If you haven't joined a neighborhood, on what basis can you make this claim AFTER making one to the contrary, given what has taken place in this thread for this day? Additionally, if your mind was so set on joining a neighborhood today, then why did you wait until Steamroll claimed neighborhoodless to claim yourself? What if he hadn't posted that at all?
It seems like a lot of your thoughts and actions have been extremely situation-dependent and not logically consistent with one another, but I'd like to know if I may have misinterpreted anything in your posts.
Regarding neighborhoods promoting WIFOM: in my opinion, most of what the neighborhoods did (especially Day 1) is take away attention from the actual game. Sure, the WIFOM situations may yield something, but they mostly just destracted people from the game thread, and derailed discussion into "well, person X said something suspicious in this chat that no one else can see, let's vote for him".
The reason that I
am looking for a neighborhood now is that apparently, people are using them. I was hoping that on Day 1, people would say "screw this neighborhood stuff", but that's not going to happen. Like I said before, I'm not a big fan of the neighborhoods, but if they're the only way to get more involved, then so be it. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em, right? Judging by Cancerous' post on Day 1, his neighborhood had about as much discussion as the game thread at that moment, acidphoenix has shown us his neighborhood is talkative as well, and UTO just claimed that his neighborhood posts a lot in the quickchat, too.
Why claim after Steamroll? I don't know, really. You said my posts are not logically consistent, and I have to admit this is kinda true. I don't really have a gameplan going into the game, and usually just play it by ear. Anyone who has ever played mafia with me knows I'm not the strategic mastermind behind the faction I'm aligned with. So, when Steamroll claimed he couldn't do much because of not being in a neighborhood, I decided to call him out and just drop that I have no alignment either. It may not have been the smartest thing to wait, or to only claim after Steamroll, but if anything, it has prompted more discussion and that's what we need. I'm not a good mafia player, so the least I can do is cause some ruckus to get people to talk, and hopefully that leads to something new.
