band·wag·on | \ ˈband-ˌwa-gən \
1 : a usually ornate and high wagon for a band of musicians especially in a circus parade
2 : a popular party, faction, or cause that
attracts growing support —often used in such phrases as jump on the bandwagon
3 : a current or fashionable trend
Shamelessly copy-pasted from The Merriam Webster dictionary, emphasis mine.
I made that comment after seeing a few posts implying that the first vote starts a bandwagon. Taken in isolation, one vote has no support, let alone a growing support. More often than not, unless they're very flimsily reasoned, we don't analyse first votes as throw-aways or wolf-on-wolf (but then again, why not, but that's an altogether different topic). I've always been of the belief that a bandwagon starts the moment another person jumps on it. We start
really analysing votes the moment they start gaining momentum towards a successful lynch.
Brinn, however, made a good point here:
Thank you, I stand corrected.
Does that satisfy you,
Lommy?
That was exactly my intent; they were two unrelated lines of thought. I probably should have added a couple extra spaces in between.
(On a random note, why do we abbreviate
Lommy and
Greenie? Why not
Lommie and
Greeny or any other permutations thereof?
)
I meant it as banter, but imagine my surprise when he did turn out to be a wolf! Wow what a carelessly dropped statement that was.
With 5 wolves I'm not discounting a wolf on wolf even after the
Huitrain started to gain serious steam (that did seem to come off left field didn't it?). But based on the voting alone I'm inclined to think
Leggie innocent, it doesn't seem reasonable for a wolf to offer his packmate up to be sacrificed when he wasn't in real danger of getting lynched, or to try to convince others to vote for him.
Also, I'm not sure why
Shasta appears innocent for holding his vote. It looked incredibly fishy to me, but I probably need a deeper reading for context.
I'll do more in-depth analyses once I'm done with work.
05-08-2020, 09:27 PM
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