# Mafia Reunion - Day One **URL:** \ **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")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 364
**Author:** ![sachertorte](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sachertorte/32/3727_2.png) [@sachertorte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sachertorte)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-one/776577/364 "2017-01-10T16:33:26Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > It may not be scum, but it’s anti-town. There zero good reason to divert attention away from this thread, and there are extremely good reasons to keep each thread entirely self contained. What?! I mean. What! My god. How? But… > [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > Just to be clear, you’re voting me because I **answered the question you directed at me?** I do not understand Johnny Bravo at all. I don’t recall having difficulty with Johnny Bravo in the past, so I’m left very confused why he is behaving so irrationally. bufftabby’s vote, while I disagree with it, is perfectly clear and the reasons stated plainly. > [@NAF1138](#): > > I again find myself regretting that we promised to answer all questions in Green. **Do you think I should see Rogue One on Martin Luther King Day?** > [@snfaulkner](#): > > Wishy-washy how? I’m not voting for Colby for just “The Slip” because by itself it means nothing. If he does something else to seem scummy, then “The Slip” might take on more meaning… I stand by the term ‘wishy-washy.’ You may not like the word choice, but your explanation is the very definition of wishy-washy. You are willing to let other factors color your interpretation of the Colby slip. That’s wishy-washy (human, but wishy-washy). Scum like wishy-washy because it opens more options for voting and influencing the Lynch. I’m super impatient this morning, it appears. > [@DiggitCamara](#): > > So, as I read on, I see that a Colby bandwagon has formed. I am the first to admit that my eye is still on him/her, however this post is actually a better candidate for suspicion. I find that a defense of another player is usually given whenever the culprit actually has superior information about the other player. So, I will > > **unvote Colby** > > and > > **Vote snfaulkner** I missed this the first time through, but caught it again in snfaulker’s quote. What’s going on here DiggitCamara? snfaulkner isn’t going to any great lengths to defend Colby, and others (including myself) have vocally called the Colby slip much to do about nothing. Why snfaulkner? > [@Meeko](#): > > **THIS** or rather, I caught it, after the fact. That, and frankly, the discussion that my post in this context would have, is entirely and strictly Meta. I don’t really see any point in discussing it while a game is active, especially among the to be active participants. > > Suffice to say, I don’t agree with **Chronos** and the notion that being confirmed town is next to useless. But again, this is a can of worms, and best left unopened during a game, if ever. > > So yes, I saw it, but as it would only serve to fluff and hijack the thread further, I don’t see it as a priority to “return” to that topic (in any and every sense) presently. I don’t love this. To my recollection, I don’t ever remember Meeko being concerned about hijacking a thread. Townie Meeko posts without any filter. > [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](#): > > You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. If a bandwagon of votes has flimsy justifications, the people on it should consider switching. I don’t see that as ‘running away’ and if the justification was flimsy going in, why would it be expected to have more substance going out? I think I’m going to have trouble holding players up to their old standards, rather than the newer reality of less time and less attention. For septimus (it was septimus right?), the wording of his post makes it sound like he didn’t even know why he was voting for Colby in the first place. It’s very strange and not simply an acknowledgement that the case is weak. > [@septimus](#): > > The reality is opposite. I honestly think that early bandwagons are anti-Town. If there were two Lynch candidates about whom I felt equally, I might vote the one with fewer votes just to maximize information eventually gained. I’ve done this before (and also attracted suspicion for this before). Yay. Something I like! I actually like the justification that slowing or stopping the early bandwagon is pro-Town. If I recall correctly, septimus was an early vote on Colby, so at the time septimus wouldn’t necessarily have known the bandwagony nature of the Colby situation. Though I should go back and verify what the situation was when septimus voted for Colby and whether or not his ‘bandwagons are bad’ defense makes sense. Put it on the to do list. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-one/776577)._