I do like
Lift's idea of the other Mason claiming their role. If there's no counter claim we have a confirmed Town player. If there is a counter claim, we get to lynch at least 1 Scum in the next 2 nights
We can also ask for anyone who has protective powers to protect this player so they don't get night killed, providing we have that role capability in the game. That could mean we either avoid a town night kill or they have to target the none Mason player. We may or may not have this power role but because neither Mafia or anyone else knows, the Mafia can't risk a no night kill. And we should consequently keep a confirmed Town player
Telika: Mafia killed one of the two least active players of day one, in terms of votes. It gives very little information. This tells us that, well, the mafia team doesn't consist exclusively in beginners.
The only kill that would have informed us less than Ambitionz (who?) would have been Joe. Joe didn't vote either (apart from the random vote), but Ambitionz did give opinions, Joe was just "hello did i miss something". Even less material. This raises the question of why Joe wasn't killed instead.
I don't really regret my vote. Frost was disruptive and terribly scummy right to the end, with his unreadable vote jumping and omguses (omgi?). Indeed a mafia asset. If the mafia (directly or indirectly) hammered him, I think it was knowing that someone would hammer him anyway :
I think that the mafia would have benefited from preserving him. This, plus his scum-likeness, makes me strongly suspect the late voters, and the ones who played it "hmm, I think he's town", and especially their overlaps : the ones who played it "hmm, I think he's town but I'll vote anyway (but I hope you'll remember I was right)". I tend to believe that it'd have taken a mafioso to think that Frost was town.
At the end, those who voted Frost were Cat, Buck, Atlo*, Dedo*, me, Scene*, Lifth. Those who did not were Ambtionz, Csanjuro, Catte and Joe. But : *Dedo hammered claiming that Frost was town (222), *Scene also pre-hammered during the no-no-lynch dusk (219) while having merely conceded that Frost had shifted from "probably town" to "all over the place" (170). Catte did a hardly motivated mini-vote (from 177 to 183) before retracting it to avoid a to fast resolution (was at L-1). *Atlo, at 165, went full "I don't think he's mafia but".
On the other hand, Frost was indeed a soft target for the mafia, if the mafia wanted to lynch a scummy enough townie, he was right there. Now, mafia had daychat, so I assume they did synchronize their strategies whereas they would have pulled the rope in different direction without that. So there's the question of any noticable group shift about Frost (possibly too obfuscated by the context of lynch deadlines).
Why do you think targetting no info players is benefiscial for Scum btw? I would think targeting someone who had reads suspecting Town players to be the better tactic. Do you think Ambitionz didn't vote for anyone because he hoped not to catch the wrath of a Mafia NK knowing he had a role?
Onto the bolded. Mafia definitely would have benefited from a no lynch on Frost. And we were at risk of a no lynch. 1 thing I did note was
Dedo asking 'should I hammer him', with 80 miniutes of the deadline to go. I told him he must hammer him in case someone else did not or in case he forgot. But would he have done so otherwise? Dedo is an experienced player and knows the importance of not lynching someone.
Then you have
Joe and Csanjuro not voting. Joe showed up at deadline, so he could of at least added his name to the leading wagon knowing the risk of a no lynch may have. But he chose not to. Casanjuro is new but has been very lurky. I do wonder if the Daychat for Mafia is because Casanjuro is a new player who drew a Mafia role.