T-I-G CIV: Spambot Apocalypse (Game Thread)

[Boromir88]

For what it's worth, if I had been around to vote yesterday it would have been Morsul. Eventhough if Rune's posting didn't help his case, his first post was titled "Robocop" which I read as an intentional gifted hint. (Robocop being a very bad - but kind of adorably campy 80s movie about a cop who is killed but then gets robotically engineered to continue fighting crime. That would have made me wary enough to not vote Rune on day 1.)

Where G55 and Morsul were giving the biggest "I'm the hacker" vibes. G55 doing it intentionally and in Morsul's case more of just Morsul always being the most confusing.

It typically gets me into trouble, but really it's just silly if we think we know who the hacker is but decide "oh hey, we need to lynch bots not the hacker, so let's vote for someone else who looks shady, even if G55 is intentionally looking hackerish." I mean yeah, we have to lynch the bots, but at the same time, if someone's going out of their way looking like the hacker, they either are the hacker and it would be better off to lynch sooner rather than later. Or their a bot playing the hacker because they know the reaction is going to be "oh we have to kill bots, not the hacker." If the hacker wants to be the early lynch sacrifice that's far less damaging than just letting the hacker stay around indefinitely. When we know the bots aren't going to kill the role and when the lynches get more crucial making it easier for the bots and hacker to join forces and push the lynches to their favor.

All this going to say G55 and Morsul are topping my suspicions based off of yesterday's activity. Spammer or hacker, evil behavior is bad and we would all be better off to rid the virtual town of it,

[Kitanna]

Originally Posted by Boromir88

For what it's worth, if I had been around to vote yesterday it would have been Morsul.

If ifs and buts were candy and nuts we'd all have a bowl of granola.

I have a few hours before work so I'm going to run through Zil's posts and whoever else I have time for.

1) Mostly banter though he does have this to say in response to Rune's "smokescreen" comment

A spambot might consider openly questioning the number of its kind, certainly. So might the innocent, though. At any rate, it's rather vexing to not know what we're facing. I guess I'll go on the assumption that there are three 'bots. Since there are only 11 players, and there's a Hacker to assist them, that would seem reasonable.

2) More banter, but he does go back to the bot count

We don't know the number of the bots, but it's really not that important. Concentrate on getting one at a time and go from there.

3) Refers to a comment made by Morsul.

Originally Posted by Morsul

Though we could take G55's "I'm a wolf" comment at face value like hahaha see a wolf wouldn't actually say that.

Zil says this is highly doubtful, but that G55 is up to something. Makes reference to her being a seer dream target.
4) More back and forth with G55's odd behavior.
5)

This reaction is interesting. The last sentence is conceivably a Hacker giving the bots a nod across a crowded room. I'd think Boro would be more subtle than that, but such hinting is difficult to achieve and dangerous to attempt.

In response to Boro's own banter post. Given how much banter he was partaking in seems odd he'd jump on Boro's.
6) More back and forth with G55.
7) More on drawing the seer's attention and a comment about G55's "I'm a wolf" statement, stating it bears looking at.
8)

Nothing concrete, just something to keep in mind.

Points again to Boro's comment, particularly the last sentence.

Originally Posted by Boro

How do you even begin finding the bots?

Which taken out of context looks fishy.
9) Comments on Morsul's vote saying it looked innocent enough and if Morsul abstained it would have been more suspicious.
10) Response to a moddess clarification about the hacker and seer dreams.
11) Admits his suspicions are weak, but feels that Boro is shady and votes for him.
So a couple of possible theories about Zil's death
1) He was killed by bots he didn't mention so as to lead a path to those he did (G55 and Boro specifically) This leaves most of village liable.
2) G55 or Boro or both are bots and thought Zil was seer. Now having been subjected to both of them as baddies I don't know if they'd be so careless as to attack Zil like that given the trail leads to directly to them.
I'd say theory one is more believable. Zil mentioned very few people and those he did were mostly offhand remarks, banter, or flimsy suspcions based on little information.

[Morsul the Dark]

Originally Posted by Boromir88

I'd rather we have wolves. Spambots are nasty business. Years I've spent honing my wolf lynching skills, only to now have spammers. How do you even begin finding the bots?

Originally Posted by Boromir88

For what it's worth, if I had been around to vote yesterday it would have been Morsul. Eventhough if Rune's posting didn't help his case, his first post was titled "Robocop" which I read as an intentional gifted hint. (Robocop being a very bad - but kind of adorably campy 80s movie about a cop who is killed but then gets robotically engineered to continue fighting crime. That would have made me wary enough to not vote Rune on day 1.)

Where G55 and Morsul were giving the biggest "I'm the hacker" vibes. G55 doing it intentionally and in Morsul's case more of just Morsul always being the most confusing.

It typically gets me into trouble, but really it's just silly if we think we know who the hacker is but decide "oh hey, we need to lynch bots not the hacker, so let's vote for someone else who looks shady, even if G55 is intentionally looking hackerish." I mean yeah, we have to lynch the bots, but at the same time, if someone's going out of their way looking like the hacker, they either are the hacker and it would be better off to lynch sooner rather than later. Or their a bot playing the hacker because they know the reaction is going to be "oh we have to kill bots, not the hacker." If the hacker wants to be the early lynch sacrifice that's far less damaging than just letting the hacker stay around indefinitely. When we know the bots aren't going to kill the role and when the lynches get more crucial making it easier for the bots and hacker to join forces and push the lynches to their favor.

All this going to say G55 and Morsul are topping my suspicions based off of yesterday's activity. Spammer or hacker, evil behavior is bad and we would all be better off to rid the virtual town of it,

Boro's two posts... I want to hear a lot more from him. I think he keeps trying to steer us away from bots onto the hacker. If we assume BG is the Hacker(My current thought) that makes Boro a bot... if Shasta is a bot there's our circle of Evil

x'ed since my last.