# Mafia Reunion - Day One

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**Category:** Thread Games\
**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:** ![Thing\_Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@Thing\_Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing_Fish)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2017, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-one/776577/253 "2017-01-09T20:13:47Z")

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[Link to my original post.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19906400&postcount=192)

> [@Pleonast](#):
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> Because I’m concerned about what Scum might do. Each Scum team is figuring out how to counter town roles on their own boards. Why should we help them by discussing what we might do?
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> Instead, let’s talk about what _they_ might do, so that each town role can better decide for themself (without possibly accidently revealing their tactics here) what to do about it.
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> (An aside: have so many of us forgotten how scum play the game?)

The above reply to me is snipped from a larger **Pleonast** post.

That doesn’t address the issue at all. It’s one thing to think of a possible Scum strategy and come up with ways to counter it (which might very well involve advising Town power roles on how they should play). But if you think of a good Scum strategy which you\* can’t\* identify a way to counter, why would you bring that up? It’s just doing the scum’s work for them.

Ordinarily, I would just see this as poor play without scum motivation; if you were really scum wanting to discuss strategy with your teammates, you could just do it on the scum board. But in the case of this particular strategy, which involves _not reading_ the scum board, there is obvious scum motivation. It reads to me like you could be scum advising your teammates on how to play and/or hinting to them that you are that seventh guy who didn’t show up to chat.

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