I’d argue this is extremely wrong, to the point of being a bad-faith argument.
Under this logic, anyone who pushes for people to form thoughts on the game is doing so with malicious intent; anyone who tries to discuss and evaluate their reads is actively supporting mafia.
The point of a game like this is to make reads, to debate reads, to discuss the ways in which people come to those reads, and to make evaluations off those reads. Arguing that, “Wolves will look at reads to find the optimal nightkill; therefore, encouraging people to give their reads is wolfy,” not only asks for town to throw away their tools of solving, it also misses the point that wolves choosing a nightkill gives critical information on who they deem to be their biggest threat. This is the bread and butter of games of this power level.
The fact that this is your only argument for scumreading me is what, in my view, pushes this from this merely being an opinion I have strong grievances with to being something I would call bad-faith.
- You can argue that I tried doing something like this in my previous wolfgame (Undertale Overhaul 2), where I used that goodwill to push agenda to protect my partner. You didn’t make that argument.
- You can argue that I pushed back on meow and YBW’s votes on Willow without committing to a strong read on her myself and that this pairs me with one of your top scumreads. You didn’t make that argument.
- You can argue that I seem to have turned around my approach to posting after Jason and Shending voted me, as if w!me is trying to scurry back into the shadows by going back to toning down my language. You didn’t make that argument.
Instead, your argument mirrors Catbae’s handling of my slot back in Odyssey: a known strong player takes a sweeping potshot at my slot D1 to disregard my reads and justify an easy scumread on me.