jTWG LXXXIV: 8 New Players and Raeko Game Thread

[MarioNintendo]

Originally Posted by MarioNintendo

Yoshi is worrying me a lot

I thought more about Yoshi.

Why would Yoshi switch from gold stinger to voting mellon so quickly?
Their reasoning: my argument swayed them

What I see:
If Yoshi is a town:
This is a bad play. People already don't trust them. The fact Yoshi joins a new vote suggestion so quickly and without any acknowledgement of how weird it is makes them look weird.
The reason Yoshi gave would be the true reason, he just went for the most compelling candidate, despite the optics that would result from this.
Conclusion: if Yoshi is town, he plays an independent town. Yoshi doesn't care what people think about them, as long as Yoshi finds the wolf. I find this believable.

If Yoshi is a wolf:
Yoshi moved their vote to melloncollie to get a train going. Melloncollie has a "big dick" wall of text lining up with her actions, which would make her an easy mislynch if a lot of people get on this train.

However, I find this play wouldn't make sense as a wolf.
* I cannot picture a world where a junior wolf would attempt to make waves at this point in the game. My entire reasoning is based on this hypothesis. By moving their vote, Yoshi is clearly making some big waves. Any player who rolled wolf, regardless of how noob they are, can understand how votes attract attention, and why switching votes so suddenly at that specific time would be the equivalent of digging their own grave. No one does that. There is nothing to gain here.
* I cannot picture a world were a Veteran wolf would attempt to make waves at this point either. A veteran knows better than to completely 180 their thoughts from a single townie post. It looks bad, like "oh, this town says something that fits my agenda, so I approve!". It looks bad from a mile away. Nobody attemps that.

Tl;dr, I only see this strange vote switch if Yoshi is a town that doesn't care what people think about them. This is what I'll choose to believe from now on. I'm able to reconciliate the picture I had of them before their vote switch with their current actions.