let me add more nuance to this, nibel is more on the new side of players, thinking that ppl playing nice r townier is something he does sometimes. id think if he was intended to buddy u he wud request ur service in some fashion, but generally its weird to buddy people u dont know and they dont know u. it's better for him to appeal to those that he knows. he's giving u a benefit of the doubt read based on being nice. its not a point im willing to defend further, but i dont think its scummy in context of who nibel is
the posts that u consider temperature check arent being followed upon. asking someone for reads isnt scummy. nibel gave his own reads and is asking to see if others agree or disagree with him. i guess my question here is how do u determine that this is a scum temperature check and not a townie asking others what they think of the game so he can sanity check his own thoughts?
same question as above, how do u determine its a scum temperature check and not a townie sanity check?
That's some interesting meta info. I think that's good context to have.
When it comes to temperature checks, it depends on the context of how they're being asked and the current activity of the thread. By nature, I do not think it is very townie to speculate in that direction. But again, that's a gut thing. Nothing more than a meta I've experienced elsewhere and might not apply here.
Red Night being newer can explain quite well my suspicion. A friendly demeanor and thinking something without actually saying it are both very common newer player behaviors.
After all, it is Day 1. Without a night 0. So there are no scum actions to speculate on yet. The best path forward I see is to harvest some conflict to see where everyone shakes out so to speak. And Red Night provided that pin of a slip that now gives a pretty informative conversation.