christmas mafia had about 23 people and ended with 11k posts. come on ekko, youre not going to convince me that external factors dictate your activity, the god damn tags were "dont clog the thread ekko".
i'll let you in on a secret, i am a pretty darn slow reader
if i am behind in momentum and the game moves too fast i likely will never be able to catch up until the night. its always been the case with me. at night is when id take my time, read over, write notes, and start the next day fresh and up to speed.
i either lead the thread in activity and keep up with everything in real time, or fall behind heavily and rely on nights to catch up. its cuz i have a tendency to reply/quote almost everything, so by default a very slow reader. once i catch up i promise to be more into it.
but fair enough, as others have mentioned you can post a lot as scum, but the other big thing throwing me off is your lack of catching up. you stopped at page 30 and asked for a recap. PAGE 30. for a man that loves the theme you think he'd be all in, going as hard as he's ever gone or at least as hard as you usually go. the lack of catching up, at the start of the game, and stopping where you did doesn't show youre as invested as what i normally see from the ekko we all know and begrudge.
i dont think me catching up immediately is required at the moment. the thread was at page 80 at the time and i know with how sporadic my availability these days is that i will never be able to catch up, so rather just spend rest of the phase talking in real time and catch up over the night and take my notes as i do so. i dont think talking in past tense is anymore efficient/productive since im way way behind. if the thread was in page 40/50 then yeah i would continue reading. but from page 30 to page 80 there is a big big chance that everything i wanna ask got answered and that topics got changed 3-4 times throughout the pages. its a big pages gap. i rather just catch up at my own pace and keep my notes nice and clean at night and start fresh next day
ekko i dont think youre so bad that you couldn't feign ignorance in being uninformed. if people are getting caught by looking like they have TMI they got a long way to go in their scum games. is that how you see yourself as scum?
there is a limit to how much can be faked. you are a good scum hunter, you should eventually be able to tell difference between fake vs real reads / informed vs uninformed. i will make myself easy to find for my town mates as the game goes. not particularly concerned about that