# Mafia Reunion - Day Three

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**Created:** [January 24, 2017, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-three/778068 "2017-01-24T20:43:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-three/778068/123 "2017-01-25T13:12:36Z")

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> [@Captain\_Klutz](#):
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> Can’t agree with this. Why the urgent need to find out? They are not going anywhere, and we are a long way from where they could possibly be a threat.
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> And I don’t think it makes any sense as a scum gambit. Do you really think this will help them survive to endgame? While there may be some occasions for scum to try something crazy, it wouldn’t be on Day 2.

If they’re scum, they don’t need to survive to end game. They just need to survive long enough to do damage with whichever power they have. As there are several people pulling for “leave them alone until later in the game,” we can hardly call the idea of such a plan completely out of left field.

Lynching Sachertorte may or may not net us scum, but it will **definitely** not result in a town lynch\* and it will **definitely** give us hard facts that we do not currently have.

HOWEVER, this just bugs the shit out of me:

> [@Mafia Reunion - Day Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-two/777425/1370):
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> ```
> 2. I LOVE to annoy the Mods [I AM the original GastardMod for a reason]. And the idea of the Mods getting 20-30 PMs at night. Well that amused me and was the primary reason for posting the idea.
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> ```

I don’t see how this can be interpreted as anything but extremely anti-town. This game is already ludicrous and we know the mods are having a hard time keeping up. Encouraging behavior that would disrupt the actual working of the game has such enormous potential to backfire and hurt town that I can’t even fathom this sort of attitude.

Not to mention that it’s a serious jerk move.

ToeJam is my second choice for a vote.

\*Unless he’s lying town, in which case lynch him anyway.

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