# Mafia Reunion - Day One

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**Created:** [January 7, 2017, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-one/776577 "2017-01-07T22:01:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![nesta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a4c791/32.png) [@nesta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nesta)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2017, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-one/776577/140 "2017-01-08T19:26:58Z")

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> [@ToeJam](#):
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> …  
> –Since then, I’ve looked up roles, there are communicator roles that can pass messages, and there are boards where people can post under aliases to ‘taunt’ one another or such, so I guess it’s not such an unheard of concept. But in that moment, i was going WTF, and I posted on it.  
> -R

Ah, that’s the stream of consciousness **Roosh** I remember. I have fond memories of parsing your thoughts back on **Idle Mafia**.

I was originally very confused by your **Roosh** logic, but I think I see it now after going back through your posts. **Pleonast** posted:

> [@Mafia Reunion - NIGHT ZERO](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-night-zero/776315/405):
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> And speaking of coordination, I’ll consider post editing extremely suspicious. Mafia, Wolves, and Third Parties have no easy means to coordinate. Putting a message in a post when another player is known to be online and then editing it before anyone else is likely to see it is a possible gambit.

You posted:

> [@Mafia Reunion - NIGHT ZERO](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-night-zero/776315/415):
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> …
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> Did the Mods Clarify this or did I miss something. Do the Scum get their own boards? They must if they’re coordinating who to kill and all, or did I miss something here?  
> -Are you assuming that there are no Scum Boards? 😕 Did Mafia change really that much since I’ve been gone?

And the reply:

> [@Mafia Reunion - NIGHT ZERO](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-night-zero/776315/416):
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> :dubious:
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> They say there are no dumb questions and yet… Here we are.
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> I officially hate that we said we would answer all questions in green.

(Which I find hilarious from a game Mod, BTW)

So, to summarize, you took **Pleonast’s** statement about scum coordination as a question about whether they had their own boards, which of course they do, but then researched whether there are roles that could communicate between the scum factions?

I’m having a hard time deciding if this is a derpclear (am I using that right?) or a false derpclear.

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