# Mafia REUNION observation and comments ie the FORBIDDEN THREAD **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [January 6, 2017, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-observation-and-comments-ie-the-forbidden-thread/776439 "2017-01-06T02:30:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2017, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-observation-and-comments-ie-the-forbidden-thread/776439/141 "2017-01-29T23:28:15Z")
> [@Thing\_Fish](#): > > What, and deprive you all of the chance to laugh at my Mafia leans in this thread? Perish the thought! > > Actually, what is the etiquette for dead scum in these threads? Would it be OK for me to post who I think is Mafia (thus, obviously, revealing that they aren’t Wolves)? I just wrote a post expressing an opinion about the reactions to my death, but then figured I should delete it. Guidance? > [@jsgoddess](#): > > Oh, thank god. Idle’s antics definitely made me not want to play, and reading that huge thread when you don’t want to play is no fun at all. I think you should both join us in the spoiled thread. PM me for the link. ---
**Author:** ![Sario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sario/32/18580_2.png) [@Sario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sario)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2017, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-observation-and-comments-ie-the-forbidden-thread/776439/142 "2017-01-29T23:44:21Z")
If anyone is itching to get back in the game there is still a few spots left for my [game](http://www.giraffeboards.com/showthread.php?t=43012) over on Giraffe Boards. ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2017, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-observation-and-comments-ie-the-forbidden-thread/776439/143 "2017-01-29T23:56:23Z")
> [@Sario](#): > > If anyone is itching to get back in the game there is still a few spots left for my [game](http://www.giraffeboards.com/showthread.php?t=43012) over on Giraffe Boards. Is this why you killed yourself? :dubious: 😛 ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2017, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-observation-and-comments-ie-the-forbidden-thread/776439/144 "2017-01-29T23:57:52Z")
> [@Thing\_Fish](#): > > What, and deprive you all of the chance to laugh at my Mafia leans in this thread? Perish the thought! > > Actually, what is the etiquette for dead scum in these threads? Would it be OK for me to post who I think is Mafia (thus, obviously, revealing that they aren’t Wolves)? I just wrote a post expressing an opinion about the reactions to my death, but then figured I should delete it. Guidance? I would prefer it if you don’t talk about specific players in this thread. Active players should not be reading it, but you never know and I don’t want to risk it. ---
**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 30, 2017, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-observation-and-comments-ie-the-forbidden-thread/776439/145 "2017-01-30T00:21:00Z")
Got it. I still would prefer to play along rather than get spoiled. ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-observation-and-comments-ie-the-forbidden-thread/776439/146 "2017-01-30T00:32:41Z")
> [@Thing\_Fish](#): > > Got it. I still would prefer to play along rather than get spoiled. Fair enough. If you want to talk about your specific player theories feel free to PM me and I will pass it along to the spoiler boards for you. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-observation-and-comments-ie-the-forbidden-thread/776439/147 "2017-01-30T00:52:39Z")
For what it’s worth, **Idle** ’s screenshot did, in fact, violate the rules as they existed at the time that he made it, because it was communication with other players outside of the thread (specifically, through the site where he hosted the image). And it’s quite gratifying to see my first two votes in the game both come up Scum at the same Dusk. **Thing Fish** , now that you’re dead, do you think that the “scum slip” I found from you (mixing up the way the Understudy and the Whelp work) was a genuine scum slip? ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-observation-and-comments-ie-the-forbidden-thread/776439/148 "2017-01-30T01:25:17Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > For what it’s worth, **Idle** ’s screenshot did, in fact, violate the rules as they existed at the time that he made it, because it was communication with other players outside of the thread (specifically, through the site where he hosted the image). Yes, and if you like, pop over to the spoiled discussion for more. ---
**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 30, 2017, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-observation-and-comments-ie-the-forbidden-thread/776439/149 "2017-01-30T01:28:01Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > For what it’s worth, **Idle** ’s screenshot did, in fact, violate the rules as they existed at the time that he made it, because it was communication with other players outside of the thread (specifically, through the site where he hosted the image). > > And it’s quite gratifying to see my first two votes in the game both come up Scum at the same Dusk. **Thing Fish** , now that you’re dead, do you think that the “scum slip” I found from you (mixing up the way the Understudy and the Whelp work) was a genuine scum slip? Well, I don’t think so, but then if it were, it would be to some degree subconscious, right? I was a bit rushed in compiling that list of rules, and I’m pretty sure I made some other mistakes too. ---
**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 30, 2017, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-observation-and-comments-ie-the-forbidden-thread/776439/150 "2017-01-30T01:31:40Z")
LMAO about the potato, BTW. ---
**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 30, 2017, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-observation-and-comments-ie-the-forbidden-thread/776439/151 "2017-01-30T02:04:00Z")
> [@Mafia Reunion - Day Three](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-three/778068/1002): > > \*\*I have used “potatoes” from time to time, but this was not one of those kinds. \*\* And he didn’t inhale. ---
**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 30, 2017, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-observation-and-comments-ie-the-forbidden-thread/776439/152 "2017-01-30T02:06:38Z")
Without commenting on specific players, I will just say that my team rocks! I felt sorry for everyone else as soon as I saw who we were. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2017, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-observation-and-comments-ie-the-forbidden-thread/776439/153 "2017-01-31T16:36:27Z")
I now have 449 pm’s about this game. That is sent and received combined. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![AngeloftheNorth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angelofthenorth/32/19559_2.png) [@AngeloftheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngeloftheNorth)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2017, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-observation-and-comments-ie-the-forbidden-thread/776439/154 "2017-01-31T21:49:26Z")
Spoil me please. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2017, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-observation-and-comments-ie-the-forbidden-thread/776439/155 "2017-02-01T04:25:34Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I now have 449 pm’s about this game. That is sent and received combined. 🙂 Goooood… 🆒 > [@Mahaloth](#): > > \*\*I’ll go further. If someone would like to co-mod for about a week, I could use some help behind the scenes as well. > > \*\* I would love to co-mod later on (or on the weekends maybe) if you wanted, if only to fuck with the players heads even more. > [@Chronos](#): > > Last thought before I take a look at those spoilers: **ToeJam** thinks that the Scum desperately want him dead because he’s participating!? Since coming back from his nearly-deadly absence, all he’s said is “whoops, catching up” and “why is everybody voting for poor little me?”. That’s either some seriously ballsy and incomprehensible ploy, or he’s seriously deluded. I’d like to think the former and never the latter. 😛 -R :spoil me plz?: Though I may just stick around here for a while… ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2017, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-observation-and-comments-ie-the-forbidden-thread/776439/156 "2017-02-01T12:32:43Z")
Since you’re here, **ToeJam** … I understood the whole gambit of “pretend to be a detective so the Scum will target me and waste their kills”. It’s less valuable with two Scum teams only one of which you can protect against, but I can see the basic logic. But why, if you’re pretending to be a detective, did you come out and directly say that you’re not a detective? I mean, I agree with you that there are, very rarely, occasional situations where Town should lie, but I can’t see Scum taking it as an assumption that you were lying. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2017, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-observation-and-comments-ie-the-forbidden-thread/776439/157 "2017-02-01T22:51:49Z")
> [@Mafia Reunion Day 4](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-4/778699/180): > > But in reading \*\*Thing Fish’\*\*s postings I get the feel everything is measured. You can almost see the ruler marks in these posts. Not commenting on the rest of the post, but I love this. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-observation-and-comments-ie-the-forbidden-thread/776439/158 "2017-02-02T21:22:47Z")
Folks in the game are talking about whether a Miller is a gastard role or not, but really, if they weren’t so common as to be expected, godfathers would be even more gastard than millers. If a miller is investigated, and Town believes the investigation, then Town ends up wasting a mislynch and then the game goes on. But if a godfather is investigated, and Town believes the investigation, then the eventual Scum victory is assured (ask **Storyteller** about that, sometime). Certainly, though, either is fair game when their existence is public knowledge. ---
**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:** [February 3, 2017, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-observation-and-comments-ie-the-forbidden-thread/776439/159 "2017-02-03T05:33:24Z")
I will say, **Chronos** , that your vote was the only one put on me that I worried that others might find persuasive. ---
**Author:** ![DiggitCamara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@DiggitCamara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiggitCamara)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2017, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-observation-and-comments-ie-the-forbidden-thread/776439/160 "2017-02-05T21:00:20Z")
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