[Party Elephant]

Originally Posted by Hockeyguy15

Party just because mrkajz had a vote against you with weak reasoning doesn't necessarily mean you are not connected, not only that but he also unvoted you shortly after. From my experience scum have to have 'disagreements' to put a little distance between each other at times.

So while I am not saying you are 100% connected, I am not going to believe you are not connected just because of that earlier exchange.

I understand that it can look like a scum play. I just wanted to point it out as it's my only defence against the link. You guys can decide whether or not you want to believe it.

Originally Posted by Hockeyguy15

Party how come earlier when I did this post about the votes against me so far you didn't comment on it?(I cut down the content to just the stuff that applies to you, post #1137). The only thing you commented on was when Puxlut said she just disliked my posting style and her gut said I was scummy.

Now you seem to be saying the same thing I brought up earlier, that you were manipulating what I said.

When I signed up to play mafia, I badly underestimated the time commitment I was signing up for. Those days I would usually just read the posts once or twice, form an opinion and that was that. As the townie bodies have been piling up I realised that half-assing it wasn't acceptable so I committed to reading the thread more thoroughly and posting more detailed posts, with quotes to reference what I was talking about more specifically. I was trusting a hunch, which after all the much heavier reading I've done the last few days seems off base in hindsight. I don't think this explanation will satisfy you but it's all I've got. Diss said it much more eloquently today than I could, but my sentiment is the same:

Originally Posted by dissentowner

So I could keep going but what is the point because my goal was to research HG's posts and prove he was scum and steering the town...but I can't. It doesn't add up now, once I went over all of his posts I can see my tunnel vision and most of his posts did have reasoning behind him. I can spin it to make him look scummy but it honestly still doesn't add up. I think I was mistaken, HG is a passenger. You would not believe how hard it is for me to write that though. The evidence to meet however after thouroughly going over it is I am leaning town now. I hate this game sometimes....

Moving on.

Originally Posted by mrkajz44

To Party about my voting of HG right after you, I will admit that your vote of HG kick-started my thought process and heaver research on HG. To use the term "pile-on" is unreasonable though, as I laid out my thought process well and continued dialogue with HG after that about how he seems to jump on certain posters, but not others (hence, driving the bus).

As you've seen, I'm not a huge fan of voting early in the day - I prefer to gather information and see how my opinion has changed from the day before (or just earlier in the day) based on new discussions. That does leave me open to criticism I suppose, as I am seen only as a follower, but to me, that is a more effective way of hunting than to just throw out a vote early and see if something sticks.

Appreciate the explanation. Don't think I have much else to comment on here.

Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen

Well my thinking was this; if I was host, as much as I would want hockeyguy15 and GirlySports on my team, I don't think I would send the spore to them right away because if it's found they were turned/had the spore someone might be like "who would send the spore to him/her?" and so early in the game the only real connection would be last game.

So there would be a little bit of an unnecessary risk for Hockeyguy15 to encourage the spore going to me the first night, in my opinion.

I was really hoping to see if anyone pushed the agenda on Day 2 about trying to figure out who would send the spore to me.

The last sentence here is a bit odd. Questioning motives to give the spore to you specifically never crossed my mind, and I'm not sure what was gained by not investigating further. I just checked every post you wrote on day 2 and you don't mention this idea once. Why didn't you push this agenda? If it was on your mind, what was gained from not sharing it with the town? And why bring it up now? Scratching my head here. I'm surprised that no one else has quoted you here as it's certainly sticking out to me.