[Rathji]

So, this is going to be a bit shorter than I had hoped, but I still have a bunch of work to do tonight.

Last game I had lots of time on my hands. I was in an entry level job where I had everything running so well that I was able to spend a ton of time on CP. I have moved to a new position, where I spend all day working at various client sites and driving between them. If you felt the need, you could examine my posting history for the entire site since September 1, and it would confirm this. It was actually to the point where I was considering not playing this game, but in the end I decided that it didn't have to be as big of a time commitment as it was last time.

Last game, I screwed up pretty big the first day. I attempted to start the ball rolling on a vote that seemed a little off to me, just to see who would pile on. I don't need to repeat how badly that turned out. My goal, as I explained it at the time, was to try and see if I could flush out a voting block the first day that we could capitalize on later in the game if one of them turned out to be scum.

This time, I don't need to do that, because other people have done it for me. There is enough, that if one of the people in the potential voting blocks we have here turns up scum, that we can at least have a lead as to where to hit next.

The first day, you can't KNOW that someone is scum. You can guess and you will likely be wrong.

What you can do is ensure that you can get something from the voting, however slight, for use some day further on in the game. You can't do that if you jump on the first bandwagon and ram it into the ground. This is why I haven't been voting, despite having some feelings one way or another based on posts that seemed strange.

As I said, I will be voting tonight, but I need to review the stuff that has come up today, since when I skim things on my phone, it doesn't really process the same way as it does on a PC.