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Hbthebattle posted...

Why was scanning Abacus a low value play? Inactive players by their nature are hard to read. Its absolutely valuable for town to close that rabbit hole one way or another.

It tells you basically nothing about anyone else. As I said in topic 3, post 384 (bolding the parts that presume you are town):

Even if you assume that han or lopen will die because there's no doc, at best you scanned an inactive player guilty and then have nothing else to go off of for d3 onwards, and you're dead from it (assuming night kill on n2). At worst (long-term strategically, for town) he scans clean, and you give ammo to someone to skate by for the rest of the game and contribute nothing. It's also super low stakes for scum for reasons already presented, but also because (assuming hb scum and abacus town) you've given effectively zero information to town. A player who hasn't interacted with anyone much is town? Not much to learn from that!

I think that the best play is to presume hb's innocence FOR NOW and give him a night. He'll probably be (or claim to be) roleblocked but so be it.

Expect me back on your case tomorrow, hb.

So if we talk through the sequence of events:

1. You scan an inactive player as TOWN
2. Option 1 is to keep this information to yourself. This does not expose you as cop. Option 2 is to share this information, but you should be aware that with a doctor dead, you have no one to protect you through to tomorrow.
3. If you go with Option 1, and you see other players putting pressure on the player that you scanned, you get frustrated. But you don't know that that Player is a POWER role, only that they are town. They could be a vanilla. As cop, it wouldn't make sense to out yourself just to save a vanilla.
4. If you go with Option 2, then you must surely know that you are dying tonight and you should be doing everything in your power to make your remaining time worthwhile, and solving the game. So far all you've really done today is... weakly accuse two players who are suspicious of someone who replaced an inactive player, and has basically been inactive themselves.