Makeinu:
Hmmm, something just occurred to me. I'm playing more along the lines of the schedule I'm used to, 48 hour "days" 24 hour "nights".
Not used to the idea of "days" lasting a week. That's gonna take a little mental adjustment...
Where'd you get a week from? Right now, unless people extend, this Day ends here:
Day 1 will go until ~5pm Pacific Thursday
More generally in this game, days go for this long:
Days will last for 72 hours or until everyone has voted (if there is a long period of inactivity after everyone votes I'll end the day to keep things moving).
Extensions: ... Extensions will extend the day by 24 hours. No more then two extensions will be granted on any given game day.
I chose to answer the question because, though it was addressed to Sinlessmoon by name, it was also more generally addressed to new players here, of which I am one.
There's been a few other questions that look equally addressable to any new player. Why'd you only pick the one you did to answer? What would you have done if no one reacted to your volunteering to have answered 'someone else's question'?
which was that two players had questions asked of them and had not answered despite showing as online.
In your experience, is answering very rapidly a Town-tell (meaning that the person is much more likely to be Town than Scum), and/or is answering 'slowly' a Scum-tell? What's a reasonable amount of time for a player to answer questions?
How important are asking questions for your Scumhunting style? I note that as of this point, you've made quite a few posts. Some of them are pure 'volunteering information', and/or adding additional information to already answered questions without waiting to see if anyone would ask you for further information.
Some of them are answering others' questions.
Then I considered what information you are actively seeking, specifically how you use questions. You've directly asked 14 questions so far this game, and only two of them appear to have any possible scumhunting value, though those two also appear more focused towards defense and self-explanation than Scumhunting.
The first is rhetorical
makeinu: Would you rather be Town, or Dopple, and why is that so?
Who's having more fun?
The second a rebound question:
So, let's turn the question back on the interrogator:
Would you rather be the informed minority working in the shadows, or the uninformed majority working for the benefit of the whole?
A third a... newbie question? (it doesn't feel like an 'I do not know what to do' question to me):
Which, by the way, aren't I honor-bound to OMGUS at RC or something? I don't know the protocol exactly... 
That one I'll answer, far as I'm concerned you're only honor bound to chase your Wincon - and you should also be honor bound to try not to harm the game/its players (like... a limit on seriously nasty personal attacks, limits on bullying, ect)
Your RC acronym, I don't know it unless you mean 'RangerCado', but the only reason for an OMGUS I can see is when you really intend to say what the acronym stands for - that someone sucks. Your play is... bizarre so far to me.
A fourth(sarcastic?) and fifth question(sarcastic?):
Anyway, tell me, what benefit is there from you answering a question directed at somebody else?
You learned something about me. Innat helpful?
Awfully chatty to answer a question or two, even seek guidance on standard protocol, not so much to do your own scum hunting?
Who says I'm not? 
A sixth, defensive and reactionary:
How's that for a start?
A seventh, a totally apropriate 'I am new here' question:
Clarify, please: what's the threshold for "logged off due to inactivity" here?
The eighth, defensive:
Clear enough?
The ninth, confused/defensive (again, does not feel 'newbie'):
Are you a jester?
How do I even answer that? If I say yes, then what? If I say no?
To answer you though, the 'then what' is I and others try to interpret the whole of your behavior, including your answer.
The tenth, defensive/explanitory:
Hence, no answer gives as much reason to, what is the term, FoS?,
The eleventh, hard to classify, some mix of defensive/deflective/possibly Scumhunting:
makeinu: Why are you jumping to conclusions about all these different people?
two is "all these different" people? 
The twelveth, defensive/deflective/possibly scumhunting:
You asked a question of Sinlessmoon I cared to answer for myself.
But why?
You can be chatty and say whatever you want and answer other people's questions but your interjections are being observed and noted and you are being judged for them.
And do you think I'm not aware of that?
The thirteenth, sarcastic/playful:
makeinu: Heyo! 
Pretty new here, are you?
Ya think? 
The fourteenth, highly defensive/explanitory:
Are you asking Ranger to unvote you? Why/not?
Yes, and why not ask?
So, would you please explain what you are doing, why you are doing it, and why you are using the method you are to achieve your goal? If your goal or method needs to be secret, it's probably better for you to directly state that instead of providing a lie. However, you're using a very direct 'attention drawing' series of interactions and voluntary 'talk to me! focus on me! interact with me! please stop voting for me!' posts since the game started - so neither your method or goal is secret, right?
Additionally, you've twice talked about the validity of your and others' votes. I spot where Max introduced the concept 'validity of your vote':
Now, if you don't feel like voting for somebody, why would you ask for our input into the validity of your vote?
But that came following your reaction to his challenge:
Awfully chatty to answer a question or two, even seek guidance on standard protocol, not so much to do your own scum hunting?
Who says I'm not?
For example:
Sinlessmoon was online when you asked your question, and yet, didn't answer.
Jim Groovester was also online after game start, and I don't see any posts from him, either.
How's that for a start?
So you look like you're responding to 'pressure' to a great extent - you're almost throwing yourself in the direction that others point. Max asks if you're going to scumhunt - 'yes' you say! You already are, 'here, I vote someone for this reason, how's that for my scumhunting?' That's weird. Can you explain why you are doing this?
But back to the 'validity of your vote thing -
I wasn't aware I asked for an opinion on the validity of my vote.
and talking about RangerCado's vote on you -
his vote has no more validity than mine did.
This seriously bugs me.
You appear to have placed your vote because of pressure that you were not Scumhunting. You then react to a challenge about the validity of your vote, but further it a short time later by stating that your vote isn't valid (and the vote on you isn't either unless there's more to back it up than what was said).
So.... First off, what's wrong with your vote to make it invalid? I understand that, for Town at least, a player's words, questions, thoughts, and especially vote are their most potent weapons (maybe this version has a few roles that are even stronger... but 'Town's greatest weapon' is the vote/lynch, right?) Second, what makes anyone's vote valid or invalid? Thirdly, why would you even place a vote that you consider invalid? Fourthly, why do you appear to be trying to get and hold everyone's attention - to me the sum total of your actions and interactions since start of play have been 'notice me!'. But you are not 'doing' anything I can understand as Scumhunting with this attention - so what drives you to get our attention like this?
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