Post #162989
January 26, 2022, 02:27:23 AM
Since we are agreeing to disagree, I strictly disagree with keeping town leans close to the chest.
The entire point of town is putting information out there (PRs exempt until the appropriate time w/e it is) so that it gets assessed and looked back upon once flips start happening. By keeping town leans to yourself for your stated reasons, you allow yourself wiggle room for when flips start happening. That's why lists are helpful.
I'm going to opt not to refer to other games. Instead, I'm going to point out that it is more suspicious of a person to keep information in the game hidden than someone that is hiding their identity hidden being suspicious. After all, it's not like by entering into this game it was decided, "Hey! This person is keeping their identity hidden! Better make them scum because that's a sus thing to do."
No. No Name opting to join the game with a different name to remain unknown doesn't directly translate into being suspicious in terms of alignment. If, and this is an if, meta were a concern, then you should be able to pick up on how they are playing by virtue of having experience with them as opposed to having no experience and therefore no need to know who they are because you wont' have any meta to draw upon anyway.
Suffice it to say, that's pretty sus of you, Aer to push on No Name's identity when you're the one openly opting to conceal information that town could use when assessing people. Because, again, drawing connections off of what people say is a big part of town's tool kit.