ZFR: For me such action is NAI. I'd do anything to escape lynch regardless of my alignment.
my name is supyreor catte: I agree. One thing a town player can be sure of is their townness. Therefore literally anyone else has a higher chance of being scum from that perspective.
Exactly.
If you come online 10 mins before deadline and find yourself tied at the lead with someone else. You can break the tie by voting for your opponent. Wouldn't you change your vote and vote them to save yourself, no matter how you read them.
Would it be held against you for doing so? I know I'd do it: I'm Town. So better somone else on the chance they're scum.
If saving yourself by breaking the tie through a vote change is OK, than I don't see why saving yourself through a quick-wall-text-post is not OK.
Heck, the only way I wouldn't save myself is if I'm Mafia, and the other person is a more useful Mafioso, like a strongarm. As Town, I can't be sure how useful the other person is.
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Anyway, here is another method for tiebreaking. random.org but... do it pre-tie.
What this means is at the start of the Day, the mod uses random.org to list the players with regards to lynch priority in case of tie.
This way it's still random.org, but everyone knows beforehand who'll be lynched in case of tie. So players have to take responsibility for their votes and can't say "well I voted but there was a 50% chance he wouldn't have been lynched."