chapcrap wrote:I didn't say the vote was a bandwagon. I was saying that you agreeing to not mass claim was bandwagoning after multiple others did the same even though you posted and said nothing in between. Was a genuine vote.
OK, so your vote on me is because I "bandwagoned" by agreeing with other people that a bad idea is bad. Got it. Next time as scum I'll be sure not to make that mistake, and try to make the bad ideas look good.
chapcrap wrote:Because it was responding to another response and I wanted to bring up the fact that freshwater was a thing. All of the speculation by Ragian (? I can't remember if it was him) was about saltwater species.
That's exactly what I'm calling out. Tobikera concluded that post with "Might be hard to assign a town vs scum designation based on the role." Which is... exactly correct. The only thing that idle speculation to the contrary does is intentionally sow confusion.
dakky21 wrote:I understand that you have meta about Pershy, but that reminds me of Madmitch... he was playing every game exactly the same, thus being unreadable... and if someone is unreadable whether they are town or scum, you can't say "it's how they play" because then you will never have an opinion on those people... "it's how they play" is not a valid starting point.
I don't think that's exactly what Ragian is saying. It's more that he's saying you can't use this particular behavior (being defensive) as a scumtell in the same way you would other players. That doesn't mean there aren't other scum tells, or that you even can't use this behavior to judge.
With that being said, you don't have to accept Ragian's reasoning or play his way, but saying that Ragian's decision isn't a valid starting point is a bit extreme. It seems like solid reasoning to me. Not using knowledge about the metagame is just being intentionally ignorant.
Also, while madmitch did get away with his play some of the time, most of the time he ended up doing silly things that hurt the team he was, so I don't think you're making the point you really want to make there.