slowreactor wrote:Aren't jesters 3rd party?
Yes. However, how third parties show up under cop investigation can vary from mod to mod. There was a discussion a while back in the usergroup about how third parties turn up under investigation. There wasn't any clear consensus shown in that discussion, with some mods simply having "Third Party" as a result, and other only using "Guilty" and "Innocent" results shunting any third party role into of of those two categories depending on the circumstances.
zimmah wrote:the fact you're just joining a bandwagon to get the wagon rolling and not even TRYING to hide that fact.
Well, as I admitted in that post, I wasn't very enthusiastic about the "case" on Wildwilliam, but voted for it anyway for reasons all coming back to the fact that it was day 1. As I just said, it was day 1 and we really had nothing to go on, as always. Such scenarios pretty much always end in one of two ways. 1: We can't come up with anything and end up hitting the deadline for a no lynch. 2: Someone says something stupid and then they get bandwagoned because we have nothing better to do. At which point they either continue being stupid and get lynched, or they roleclaim and/or provide some sort of reasonable defense, then we either believe them and go do something else or we disbelieve them and lynch them anyway.
So yeah, Wildwilliam was the most prominent candidate for a lynch at that point in time and it seemed inevitable that he would pick up more votes. Since going down that path seemed marginally better than just waiting around for the deadline to give us a no lynch, I voted for him to speed up the process. At that point Wildwilliam could either provide an intelligent defense and probably avoid being lynched, or continue being stupid and get lynched. He ended up choosing the latter, too bad he was town but what are you gonna do.
So yeah, from one perspective you could say my vote was a shameless bandwagon. But, I was upfront and honest about it being so and my reasons for doing it. And it was Day 1, so really there weren't many better courses of action available to me at the time.