You're not scumreading ghug, just voting for himDiplomacy&Warfare wrote: ↑Thu Apr 04, 2024 9:53 pmThis is why I suggested a corollary where a false result could mean:ghug wrote: ↑Thu Apr 04, 2024 9:39 pmThey are irrelevant to our current decision making. Some of them will later become relevant.
Take Will's:
He could be town faking a scan who picked "FALSE" at random.
He could be scum faking a scan who picked "FALSE" at random.
He could be scum faking a scan with the intent to shade me.
He could be a parity cop faking a scan on me because he doesn't have a result yet.
He could be a cop who legitimately scanned me. Of the seven cops he can be with the result he has (i.e. not naïve or parity), three would return false on a VT, and a fourth might.
That Will has announced a false scan on me gives me no meaningful information on his role, even knowing my own.
Will is a town faking a scan
Will is scum
Will is a cop who read you as guilty/dark/parity to a known scum
Will is a cop who read you as either Not Vanilla or Cop Including Dark Judges
The second is an unavoidable risk. The first, third, and fourth (less likely) would equal out to a vague scumread on you. Not a good reason to vote you out, but if you have a lot of False hypo scans on you it would be a pretty good indication of a scum. If you are getting wagoned for a bunch of False hypo scans of the fourth variety, you can just reveal you are a cop anyways. I said this was a better option, and SOMEONE dissed my plan.
(ghug and balki. Sweet and damo also indicated they preferred ghug's plan)
It should be noted that this was a hypothetical example. I am not scumreading ghug. Please snip this post if you quote it.
I preferred my plan precisely because the hypos suggest less. Even under yours, most of the scans are fake. Even the real ones don't tell us exactly what's going on yet. Any attempt to read into the scans is likely to lead us astray and give scum cover for pushing townies, allowing them to blame their votes on scans that ended up being fake. At the very least it encourages people to claim that they are or aren't actually cops, which you highlight yourself, and which is absolutely not what we want.
Think of the hypoclaims as they are now like an encrypted message. They contain useful information, but that information is obscured to the point that we can't understand it until we get the key (a dead cop's flip).
