On another note, I think Priz makes a good point by saying that mafia don't know their allies yet (Thymos?). If this is so, apparent links between players can be ignored on this first day (another reason not to waste today).[/quote]
Yes, that is the issue: The chance of accidently lynching a towny is big, but: If we don't lynch at all (no matter the outcome), the chances for Scum to win rise by roughly 30% (!) or so.
True dat, at first I voted Jivvi because it was a reaction test. But I do sort of think Jivvi is suspicious so I'm keeping my vote on him for now. After all, we need some discussion
But I am in full agreement, as much as I hate it: If we NL, we have nothing to work off at all, if we L, we at least can analyse that a bit.
This was your first actual post. As we can see, you answered the questions that GmK put forward, but gave no actual info about what you think, how we should act, anything. As Road already explained, this is a rather good way for scum to seem innocent, because they're "contributing" to the conversation, while not actually saying much. Ok, a lot of people did that, so surely this is nothing?
This was your next post. Again, we see that you're not actually contributing anything to the discussion, rather, you're bringing up something from my post that might put some suspicion on someone else, in that case, 77. That's a scummy move, as far as my knowledge and logic about mafia games goes. They're ensuring that they don't seem suspicious, while at the same time putting suspicion on someone else.80% of people I've seen say something like this turned out to be scum (scum is a Mafia term for any anti-town, so if I use it, don't be offended)
Not that it actually means something, just something worth to note.
And with that, I'm finishing this rather long first post. Hoping to get some discussion going so we could start picking out our suspicions.
Here we can see you following notty's lead and casting your vote on Jivvi. While notty's reasoning was logical in at least some levels, you have no reasoning at all. To me that seems like you're trying to start a bandwagon just for the sake of it, while at the same time you can hide behind notty and say: "But he started the vote!" if Jivvi should prove to be innocent. Another classic scum move.
You unvote. Right after two people say that lynching Jivvi isn't the move they'd make, you unvote. It's honestly looking like you're trying to go with whatever the people think at the moment, so that your (public) opinion would match most of the player's opinions. Which would theoretically make you less suspicious to them because people usually suspect people who don't agree with them, rather then those who do agree with them.
We can see you protecting notty, who in my eyes is also suspicious (ok, yeah, you guys don't have to take that part as a valid point).
Oh stahp, you're making me blush. Being silly is my trademark. And voting you did make a bit of discussion. For example we now have the argument against Pim that Ender made in the post above.
