Yes because, knowing Joe, I read that post as harmless joke. But it is true that it is dead interaction. the question is only, did Joe write it for that purpose or did he rather make a harmless joke?

Knowing Joe, what sort of educated guess you would make on the matter? Which one did he go for?

Lunch break is already a chaotic mess.
"You look like you're here to cause ruckus!" Sayaka shouted at Faye.
"Nani?" Faye retorted. "I'm pretty sure it's Hazama-chan."
"HAZAMA-CHAN!?" Hazama was a little surprised to hear her name. "It's not me, it's Asuka! She's stupid!"
"Huh?" Asuka shrugged. "I've no idea what you guys are all about."

Everyone is pointing at each other; everyone is accusing each other. What a wonderful world.

VOTECOUNT:
FrostburnPhoenix (2) - Telika, Catventurer
JoeSapphire (1) - Atlo
bucktoothgamer (1) - JoeSapphire
Telika (1) - supplementscene
supplementscene (1) - catte
Catventurer (1) - FrostburnPhoenix
Catte (1) - Lifthrasil

Not voting: Ambiti0nZ, dedoporno, csanjuro, bucktooth
Closest to exclusion is FrostburnPhoenix, at L-5.

In case there's any errors in the votecount, please let me know.

I'm only going to refer to the not lynching newbies on day one thing as Barbossa's Guidelines for now on.

Technically, it is more for new players. The guys who have been around a long time should know that already, and someone like myself that's been here a few games should have hopefully figured out what Lift said by now. Even if the answer comes from someone mafia-aligned, nobody is going to steer anyone else wrong with everyone else watching.

Nothing you can do can make me classy.

Except that cats are always classy.
*points at Jiji"

Exactly. That's why you can't make us classy- we already are.

Did I start the game too strong? I Claim mafia one-shot yandere.

Also that is not Makise Kurisu.

Vote catte

I actually think that he made a silly joke and didn't intend it as anything else. Which doesn't change that Frost's point of view is valid too. Frost hasn't known Joe as long as we and coming to the conclusion that Joe might have intended the dead interaction for nefarious reasons is an understandable point of view.
Therefore, I don't think that Frost's reaction was overeager, even though I don't share the same impression about Joe. In other words, Joe is NAI, Frost looks slightly towny to me, since it appears to me as a case of genuine scum hunting and not as artificial, pretended scum hunting.

Bumping for Lift.

This, however, is a really bad move. We had 'joke' claims of being Mafia in the past. It is always disruptive to the game and never helps Town. Either your 'claim' is true and you are scum, or your 'claim' was a lie and lying makes your anti-town too. Maybe your claim was intended as joke, but even then it is anti-town, because claims are too serious to joke around with.

on top of that your change of vote is unexplained.

This changes by perception of you.

vote Frostburn

Hi guys, I've been in quite allot of pain in the last day, my arthritic injured knee injury has been in absolute agony. So I haven't had the where withall to read and analyse anything. I am feeling a bit better now and hoping it doesn't get worse again over night as I twisted it again this afternoon trying to move around my house. If I'm unable to shake off the pain in the next couple of days I will ask Pooka to sub me out. But I am hoping to improve.

How can you interpret a mafia claim as anything but a joke? It's not even a maybe.

I Was returning to RVS because I realized it was a bad idea to break out of RVS so soon.

FrostburnPhoenix, your return to RVS (that ship has sailed, I'd say) is really a return to random votes ? That is, you're openly voting for Catte (who already had a vote) for no reason outside randomness ?

Lifthrasil, you typed post 47 with the idea that Csanjuro is town ?

1. Lift is saying that hunting down team mafia is no joke, and you should never joke about being mafia. Also...

2. I shouldn't be able to look at your posts and make a joke that you must be town on the basis that you've already jumped off the deep end into wackyville.

3. I shouldn't be voting for you out of sheer annoyance.

4. This isn't your first mafia rodeo, so you should know full well that the team town especially needs to be moving past random voting. At this stage in the game, random voting only aids team mafia.

But here we are. All these things have already happened in this game. Once again, you're acting like the MVP for team mafia regardless of whatever your alignment actually is.