# The Lost Mafia Forbidden Thread

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [June 11, 2009, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lost-mafia-forbidden-thread/499486 "2009-06-11T20:37:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2009, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lost-mafia-forbidden-thread/499486/4 "2009-06-12T01:06:10Z")

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> [@Lost Mafia/Werewolf/Psychopath](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-mafia-werewolf-psychopath/499337/154):
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> 1.) Innocent townies will honestly claim their names and, after much wiki and google searching, we will kill them because their characters’ are ambiguous on the show.

This is a really bad reason to not mass claim. This argument is basically that the Town might make bad choices with the information they’re presented with. Well, if that happens then the problem is that the Town made a bad choice, not that the Town gained information. It’s always a good thing for Town to have more information. The balance to this is that some information is more valuable to scum then the Town. It’s the risk of giving important info to the scum that the Town should be wary of, not that the Town might make poor decisions based on the info they gain through a mass claim.

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