# Forbidden thread for Hawkeye's mafia game.

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [October 31, 2008, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forbidden-thread-for-hawkeyes-mafia-game/470457 "2008-10-31T16:49:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forbidden-thread-for-hawkeyes-mafia-game/470457/52 "2008-11-11T07:00:33Z")

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> [@Sdmb mafia](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-mafia/470198/784):
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> Voting for someone because you can’t see pro-town motivations behind it is a reasonable way to vote. I don’t expect scum to come dancing out to show themselves, our masons are out in the open, and we’ve lost our Cop. It’s the best hope I have to find scum: finding players whose motives are suspicious.

BTW, the above Boozy, is oh so very wrong. This sort of logic is terrible. I don’t know how many times I have to say it, but it is universally true that EVERY player will do something anti town during the game. Only some will do things that are actively pro scum. Pro-scum != Anti-town. They aren’t the same. You can’t look for lack of pro town motivation, or look for something as being anti-town. You have to look for how something will actively further the scum cause. Scum will ALWAYS do pro scum things or they will lose the game. Being able to effectively tell the difference between anti town and pro scum IS the game.

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