# Mafia Reunion - Day Three **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [January 24, 2017, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-three/778068 "2017-01-24T20:43:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 704
**Author:** ![Lakai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lakai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lakai)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2017, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-three/778068/704 "2017-01-28T01:16:58Z")
I don’t like the case against either **Idle Thoughts** or **Prof. Pepperwinkle**. Everyone seems to be voting for Idle because he’s been lurking and because he’s being defensive about it. That’s actually the same reason Lakai V.1.0 was lynched on Day One. I didn’t like that case then and I don’t like it now. Lurking isn’t helpful for the town, but it doesn’t mean someone is scum. The case against **Prof. Pepperwinkle** seems to rest on him advocating for a bad strategy. You can argue that this strategy favors scum and therefore he’s also scum, but I don’t want to jump to that conclusion at the moment. It’s just as likely that he’s town who thought of a bad play. I also do not like how quickly a bandwagon formed around these two players with almost very little in way of the evidence against them. Instead of voting for these two, I’m voting for **Hockey Monkey** because I don’t like her bandwagon voting for the last three days: > [@Mafia Reunion - Day One](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-one/776577/1101): > > Erg, I’ve actually been contemplating this myself. I don’t want meta information like that to influence my gameplay, but I went through a stretch where I was either lynched or killed in the first cycle or two. It’s demoralizing and I can totally empathize with feeling “butthurt” and being snarky and defensive. It starts to feel personal and is probably a contributing factor to my long absence from the games. > > I also have been getting swayed by the current cases against **Lakai**. The **Toejam** votes I’m just not feeling as much. I still very strongly feel that **Colby’s** slip was real and he’s scum, but I am also willing to lynch another strong contender and let him play another Day. I’m going to go ahead and move my vote, just so if I can’t get back before end of day, it will be done. For the same reason I will revote, but I will not have time to pick out quotes from different people’s cases to support my move. It’s totally a MeToo vote and I will own that. I will also likely start Day 2 with a **Colby** vote, so heads up on that. > > **Unvote Colby** > > Vote Lakai\*\*\*\* > > (This is way harder to code on an iPad or phone, that with a keyboard and mouse. Jeez!) > [@Mafia Reunion - Day Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-two/777425/584): > > Certainly looks win stealing to me. It doesn’t say you win with town, so > > \*\*vote crys \*\* > > We should also Lynch **brewha** toDay. > [@Hockey\_Monkey](#): > > Gorramit! > > \*\*unvote Prof Pepperwinkle > > vote Idle Thoughts\*\* > Who else thinks \*\*Idle \*\*just swooped in to save one of his scum buddies from getting lynched? That’s really the only reason I can think of for him to do this, as just not posting would have gotten him the result he wanted, but lost 2 for his team. Now we have to waste a lynch on him. She voted for all these players after a few other players voted for them and they are all votes agreeing with the existing case against these people. In this game with two scum teams, I think it’s easy for the town to get lead astray by bandwagon voting. One or two players from one scum team can build a case against someone for a suspicious post, and then the second scum team, seeing a case being built against a town person and not one of their team, will jump in on the lynch. Like two small waives building into a tidal wave against a town person. That’s my working theory. And **Hockey Monkey** has too many bandwagon votes so that’s why I will vote Hockey Monkey. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-three/778068)._