OK so this is going to be long because I finally have some time to pay attention to this thread and have gone back and looked at Hooked Newbie like I suggested. While all of this is from day one it is very interesting when you put it all together like this. We now know that hooked was a mafia scumbag and I am looking at this through the eyes of who would see it as beneficial to remove hooked newbie from play even without investigating him or finding out who his allegances sided. I think there are probably several in this list.
First Quote.. Decides that all the mods are worth voting for..
Jibs RB about his vote being OMGUS
Votes DD
Votes Mgamer
Most of this above stuff is first day fun but I'm wondering if it isn't tounge in cheek fun and that he is setting himself up for future voting. At this point we are looking at everyone on equal footing as its day 1.
I felt it necessary to include this quote as much was made about the whole deletion of posts.
Here he responds to DD's post.
I again included this because I felt it was needed and have clarified through the moderator that removed those messages that this is in fact the case that those messages could be put back into the thread. And he did assure me that "nothing was deleted that should have stayed in the game".
Here he addresses Jpap and CT
Here he questions LC's vote tally and then removes the question because LC made the correction.
I'm not sure what to make of this post specifically as he is addressing MG who posted two of the few posts he's made that contain any gaming rational in them.
Here he starts digging into Jmax - note that to me this looks like normal HN because he is digging quite a few different players trying to get a read on them (or thats what it looks like to me) and I consider this normal HN play when he is an innocent. He does dig a lot of different players looking for reactions etc.
Here he starts playing with EMO and questioning him.. Again I'm thinking this he is digging for something reactionary..
Goes back to chatting with Jmax because of her replies to his above posts. To me she was awfully defensive in her responses to HN for just a post about what she was doing outside of the AC forums.nope, not defensive, ..Just being a smart alec, ..my usual response style to HN..
Now he starts seeing what Cory Lover is up to.. Again this is a player with whom he has a unique insight as I do believe Cory was the President and HN was one of the men in that game..
Again digging Jmax
Here he is replying to CT who stated that next game he will try harder as he is going that night. And I have to agree with what he posted and was why I personally did not vote for CT. Again he was a newbie and I had written things off as newbie first day mistakes. It was to our benefit that he was mafia when he was lynched but realistically it could have gone the other way as well..
I think here he goes back to having some fun and playing with ICE actually.
Here he digs back into Lchap..
Replying to Grins for his Grammer
Digs Ogre about his number of posts.
Harasses ICE about him not wanting to track retracted votes.
Here he is playing with his votes wanting ICE to have to make the decision based on the voting being a 50/50..
Ok so contrary to what LadyG posted earlier (see below for her analysis of HN posting) I think he was digging Lchap and Jmax and DD the most. He did dig emo about his posting saying he thought he got straight A's in school etc (see above). Sout out of the above who do I think would take him out based on his posting.. Well this is partly based on who he was digging but also my insights as to how two of those people play..
Lchap
DD
JM
Are my choices. I am totally writting off that it was a newbie who took HN out because if they have never played with him how could they know what type of threat he could be if he was an innocent player. They would have absolutely no frame of reference to go from. And from the looks of the newbie players that we have they obviously haven't gone back to read previous games because they are making way to many newbie mistakes to have done so. So with that knowledge I do know that JMax can make some snap decisions about things when she doesn't have a team to support her.. As well as I've seen DD do the same thing. But I'm thinking my final vote is going to have to go to Lchap simply due to the fact of what happened with the night 1 voting. His knowledge of how HN helped him tune his play in the pirates game and KNOWS very well that HN was a very good player that game that found out who the pirates were fairly quickly. That would make him a big threat in this game..
So at this point I replace my vote to lynch LChap.
LadyG's Analysis-