Posted October 18, 2011
bazilisek: A noticeable number of Orry's posts almost completely lack any relevant content (#111, #114). Towards the end of this thread (#164+), his contributions are primarily only insisting on sticking to "correct", i.e. pro-town procedure, which is a simple and efficient way to subconsciously implant the idea of him being town.
Never call out anyone for being too town. While a mafia member would, of course, try and pretend to be town, a town member would of course actually be town and thus play as town. You're creating a WIFOM situation by saying someone (in this case me) is acting "too town", there's even a page on the mafia wiki about why this is fallacious. The reason I don't think anyone should be lynched today is that we don't have enough time to go over the reactions of the person well enough to make an informed decision anymore, hence the removal of my vote last night, when we would have still had time to get proper reactions from one person and then chose to lynch them or not.
At this point we have more or less passed the point of no return where we'll likely end up with a mislynch due to lack of evidence.
Had I not read Joe's mistake post I would have pushed against xyem harder, but I thought he was already at L-2 after my vote, hence my unvote of him when rabbit voted, etc.
@Vitek:
That previous paragraph should also explain that I wasn't willing to lynch just anyone, but I did want reactions out of xyem before it was too late to sort through anyone's reactions properly. Now I'm in favour of not lynching anyone unless it becomes blatantly obvious that somebody is scum. (or, of course, we are given additional time)
@Baz:
Why use the argument that leads to obvious WIFOM? I'm sure you know the game well enough to know why you shouldn't use the "too townie" argument, especially in conjunction with saying I am tied for the second scummiest voting pattern.