I'm hosting a game!

[BSmith]

Given the general negative knee-jerk reaction to claims like this (“ZOMG He is not town! LYNCH HIM!!!!”) regardless of what the actual claim is, a ploy like this would have extremely long odds. So extreme that it would be highly unlikely for an actual scummer to make that bet.

What the claim has done though is take all the air out of any other case that might be made. Given that D1 is usually random votes it might be too much to expect a decent discussion on alternatives, but I certainly hope we can start.

Of course as I write this I am struggling to not just go random myself…

[Winston Hughes]

What the claim has done though is take all the air out of any other case that might be made.

You think? I'd wager it provoked much more discussion than we'd have seen otherwise. Indeed, I've been wondering if Visor might move to a second-phase defence of "I'm just vanilla town trying to get people talking". His last question to me suggests that might be the case.

Of course as I write this I am struggling to not just go random myself…

There's no excuse for random voting now. We can vote people for what they've said (or for what they haven't said) with regards to the Visor wagon.

[BSmith]

You think? I'd wager it provoked much more discussion than we'd have seen otherwise. Indeed, I've been wondering if Visor might move to a second-phase defence of "I'm just vanilla town trying to get people talking". His last question to me suggests that might be the case.

Absolutely. There is much more discussion than there otherwise would have been, which on balance is a positive thing. If Visor does backtrack into that defense, then I would be much more willing to vote for him.

There's no excuse for random voting now. We can vote people for what they've said (or for what they haven't said) with regards to the Visor wagon.

Indeed, which is why I haven’t voted for anyone yet. I am tempted to vote for someone that took the knee-jerk “let’s vote Visor because ‘reasons’” path, but I have yet to have any one poster stick out as manipulating that very obvious response. No one has completely ignored Visor either, which would be another thing to pick on.