I am actually surprised with the really strong reaction of
Lommy's to the
phantom-business, while I agree, it's a bit scary the way she reacts so strongly. But at least it seems to have an intimidating effect and people realised (if they didn't do so by themselves) what power do the votes hold - basically what I said.
I must thank to
Rune for finding enough energy to read my post and at the same time find it "not complete trash"
Although I should remark that the "buttering up" of mine and especially
Lommie's posting made me worried a little bit (I am thinking of the general wolf strategy of "buddying up" with somebody, which especially in the representative-game can also have other effects, like getting people to vote for you as the representative. I think actually that is an issue we should keep an eye out for in this game as well, for that matter, the thing about
sally and
Lottie possibly also "buddying"
phantom in this way holds too). That said, I do not consider it any obvious sign of guilt or anything like that, but at least it looked a little attention-rising to me now (with the sort of enthusiasm
Rune had, unusual, seemed to me).
I could also remark that I find it funny, though, how since several of the posts which pointed out the danger of having all votes for
phantom, and especially after
Lommy's rather strongly frustrated post, the "public thinking" sort of shifted towards the same paradigm of echoing it - like
Inzil or
Glirdan (and even
Rune, with what I mentioned above). Since it became a "fashion", I expect that now it is easier for the SoE to join this "fashion", and not support
phantom any more. Which means, I am also watching those I mentioned above - mainly the first two, with
Zil being a bit casual, which might have been just joining the flow, and
Glirdy being a bit laid-back, which might have been so as not to be in the centre of attention but still agree with the majority.
Anyway, still there is a horde of people to see, so... looking forward to more.
EDIT: x-posted with
Nogrod and onwards...