Polantaris Wrote:Except that he did vote for someone using the same overall theory as me: To get people to talk. Meta hadn't talked at that point, but then when Shidoshi said that one vote doesn't matter, he decided to agree with that theory and increase the heat, so to speak, on CJ, to get them to speak.
If he wanted to get people to talk, he would have kept his vote on Meta, because Meta had yet to talk (and saying that they're handicapped is interesting but doesn't add much.) He even outright stated that Meta had been shifty from her past games; coupled with the fact that Meta wasn't talking this early this game either would have been quite a solid reason to keep his vote on her. Chaotic, on the other hand, merely hasn't spoken. He was an active participant last round. I'm more curious as to why MasPan valued getting Chaotic to talk rather than convince everyone else that Meta was the way to go. That said, the votes have been retracted, so it doesn't matter as much.
That's suffice to say that I have yet to understand the value of the 'raise the stakes' theory this early in the day. People could very well be sleeping, or busy and otherwise unable to respond. If they're seen posting elsewhere on the forum, that might be a indicator that they're deliberately keeping quiet but it's as pedantic as hunting who is viewing the thread and who is viewing in invisible mode (didn't actually know you could do that but okay, TIL); we shouldn't feel obligated to police the rest of the forum for this game.
Polantaris Wrote:Unless we're going to make it a rule of the game to turn it off, it's a waste of energy, and above that it doesn't really show or prove anything at all.(I reckon there should be a rule for this, but it's pretty pedantic.)
Polantaris Wrote:Kyra + Luv: Voting != Condemning. It simply gets their attention. Simply going, "Please answer me!" doesn't do anything. They're under no obligation to humor you and they can make up excuses/change the subject/employ a number of tactics to get around you. Voting is literally the only thing you can do to get people to talk. You should build a case early, something I essentially got chewed out for not doing last game. Start building it now, and refer to it when you need to make a case to everyone else. Saying, "I have someone in mind but I want to wait," does nothing.
Thanks for the advice. It sounds pretty cruel but killing people (and cheating) is pretty cruel too.
Since apparently giving people the benefit of the doubt can no longer be trusted to work,
Please explain why raising the stakes this early is a good thing. The only excuse I can think of is that votes towards the end of the day should be the final straw and whoever you vote for is the person you want lynched, but that's still very late in the day. Days are 48 hours; even giving the 'last portion of the day' 12 hours still makes this tactic much too early to employ.
Polantaris Wrote:This post was far larger than I had intended. But I'll end with my name. I'm not so sure it was really that good of an idea to reveal names so early...I always feel like there's something in them that can be deduced. Regardless, since people have done it, to not do it makes you look bad. As such, I am Zee Powers.I thought a lot of the people who were making games were opposed to putting information in names? Or maybe xBTAx wasn't part of that mob.