# Mafia Reunion - Day Two

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**Created:** [January 17, 2017, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-two/777425 "2017-01-17T22:20:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-two/777425/547 "2017-01-20T20:17:49Z")

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> [@Hoopy\_Frood](#):
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> I’ll tell you why it’s a bad idea. All Vanillas will claim vanilla. All Scum will claim vanilla. All town power roles will claim…well, what do they claim?
> 
> If they claim non-vanilla, they’ve all just been exposed.
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> If they claim vanilla, they’re now lying. (Granted, for a good reason, which is why I don’t like the “lynch all liars” policy some people have. Lying by town is okay, but you better be prepared to justify that lie.) And, if everyone claims vanilla, there’s no real data points.
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> So yeah. Bad idea. Very bad idea.
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> (snip)  
> So with one possible exception which I’ll mention below: PLEASE STOP CLAIMING YOU HAVE SWITCHES!
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> (snip)  
> I think Brewha’s claim was seriously anti-town. But I don’t think he’s scum for it. It doesn’t really make sense as a scum play. I also don’t think he or anyone who’s claimed switches is our Sauron.
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> Thoughts?

I agree with the first part: a mass claim of Town Vanilla folk won’t really benefit us at all.

I also agree with the second part, for different reasons:

1. I doubt the switches were handed out to power roles within town
2. I doubt the switch disclaimers (so far) are scum
3. If I am right, scum now has a smaller pool of “targets” (presuming that scum actually will target power roles first)
4. The specificity of **brewha** ’s claim has put a large target on his back. If scum have a second switch, it is in their interest to offsky him and, that way, control when Batman will be able or not to kill.

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