I think the town played very well in WW1, particularly with the Rubystreak lynch, as well as in many games over at mafiascum.net. The town is not always playing well in my game, although some players are playing very well, the problem in my game is that the mafia is just outplaying them. I think if I had a different group as mafia in my game things would be very different. The town keeps getting close and being put off the scent by mafia members (sometimes by townies overthinking things), which might not have happened so readily if different people had different roles. But the Suburban Plankton lynch in my game is a good example of the town doing things correctly.
DiggitCamara:
I don’t see how those clauses follow each other at all.
It seems the more-active players are throwing analyses, FOSs, and accusations at each other. So I’m wondering, how many of the less-active players are probable Mafia?
And those would be … what exactly?
Ever since I put Idle Thoughts on my scum list, I’m more suspicious of his postings. I think this is a case of confirmation bias.
I would guess that confirmation bias plays a vrey strong role in this game.
I’m suspicious of
diggitcamera (and not just because he was the first person to vote for me). His posts don’t make sense half the time, and it seems to me like he’s contradicting himself in quite a few of them.
fluiddruid She’s definitely looking scummy to me, but they should be careful of bandwagoning AGAIN.
-Lil
Yawn.
What the hell?! Lemur should be held to the fire for this. I wasn’t even thinking Lemur was scum, but off-hand remarks like this by a townie can’t go by without a nice helping of confrontation. Call Lemur scum for saying this, then see how he reacts. I don’t really think Lemur is scum for this statement, but it makes a good discussion point. The town has been too fixated on actions and not the words and word choices.
This is getting kind of aggravating. All this chatter of why so and so voted for blah. Would mafia do this? Would mafia do that? So much misplaced logic. The vote record is not gospel! Then again maybe it is mafia that is driving me crazy and deftly nudging the town into applying logic into stupid strategies. “Hey look at this nice shiny spreadsheet! Isn’t it pretty? Don’t you want to waste spend all your time and energy looking over this spreadsheet for clues?”
Okay, I retract that. At least the town is holding DiggitCamara to task for the inane assertion that lynching is a good idea regardless of his status by yielding useful information. I hope they lynch DiggitCamara as he has been on my scum list. At the very least I hope they leave the spotlight on him so I can watch.
Oh Boo Master Blaster. Diffusing an otherwise productive and entertaining discussion.
Many of the townies baffle me in this game. Although I guess having perfect information will do that to you.
Gadarene, are there ANY bad guys strongly involved in the discussions? Wait, don’t answer that.
It would be a distrubing lack of faith[sup]*[/sup] if all the prolific posters were townies. However, from what I’ve seen, the paranoia that everybody is showing makes that an option. I still can’t figure out a good strategy for convincing people that someone is or is not a bad guy, especially when the “someone” is yourself.
*: I was rereading a Star Wars book last night, I have the top quotes on my brain today.
I can answer that if you want. 
Yeah, but it would spoil our “Find-the-scum” fun.
I’ve already given you a handy logic problem to that effect. 
I just started reading through that game. Town got unbelievably lucky with the Alpha Wolf lynch. But in any case, it seems that at the end of Day 1 in that game, the two most-lurking players were subbed out for more active posters- and both of them turned out to be Wolves.
I strongly suspect that the current game has a few lurking scum, and I wonder how much better it would be going for Town if Gadarene had forcibly subbed them out. I think it might have done a bit to prevent this Town’s rather odd myopia (that is, the way they only suspect a small set of active posters, and have ignored bunches of people, like Qoch and Hal)
Too late now, I supose.
Do you think I’m being too lax in enforcing the “no lurking” rule?
I only suspect that it would have gone better for Town if you had been stricter about it- but I don’t exactly think a change now would be good (in the name of consistency) nor help town much (since they are so VERY myopic). It was just an interesting contrast between the two games.
Fascinating stuff in #s 1315 and 1316.
How trusting are we that active players aren’t visiting this thread? Because all I can comfortably say is just “wow, go, tirial, go.”
Hey Gad, were my guesses about scum similar to Idle Thoughts’s in regards to scum in multiple categories?
The way things are turning I think I might have at least one scum in each of the categories I mentioned, with the possible exception that all of my “definitely scum” are town. Of course the “definitely town” section is accurate.
For some reason everything that SnakesCatLady is saying now is sending my scumdar meter through the roof. Anyone else getting that feeling?
Link me.
Barring a major change of events, it looks like fluiddruid is going to swing at the end of this game day.
I still haven’t figured out a good way to determine who’s town and who’s a bad guy. Help? Please?
Spontaneous comments and visible frustration are very strong town tells, in my estimation. And an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.