alright, now I'm finally done reading the ~65 posts that were made after I went to bed yesterday. Being 8 hours ahead can make you miss quite a bit of action, but at last I had something to do on the bus ride home from work
just wanted to comment on this:
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Originally Posted by formulate
Last game, the 8 mafia members were split into 2 rather distinct posting 'types', at least in my mind. There was the highly active and aggressive CaptainCrunch, undercoverbrother, starseed, and bizaro. And then there were the less active DropIt, Completely, CofR and (to a lesser extent) devo.
I began looking closer to see if I could find any correlation between activity level and alignment. I gave up quickly partially because it looks like there was nothing, and also because I saw something more interesting in regards to style.
The 4 less active posters (again, devo to a lesser extent) all had a fairly similar style of posts: pretty empty. What I read were lots of statements of fact, agreements with other ideas, and excuses for not posting more or more in depth. They basically did the bare minimum to not get noticed as the bottom end of the post count.
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don't forget that there were two sets of mafia groups. It was Captain Crunch, DropIt, Completely and me as one group, and there was undercoverbrother, starseed, bizaro and CofR as the other one. So you can't really throw all mafia members of that game into one group because obviously every group had their own thoughts and tactics. I can only speak for our group of course and we were scattered across the crowd: there was a very vocal one who blended in perfectly as a leading scum-hunter (CC), I was more in the middle of the pack and the other two lurked in the shadows for a long time before getting more vocal. We didn't even plan on doing this, it just naturally happened that we ended up in different "posting groups", if you want.
I doubt any mafia members will risk getting to the bottom of the post count because those users are always called out, and that's what you want to avoid if you want to stay in the shadows. However, I think calling out the inactive ones and pressuring them into posting more is good nevertheless because inactive town members don't help us at all.
Looking at "suspicious" users so far, it's almost a coin flip for me. Rathjis different posting style is something that has caught my eye as well after re-reading some of his posts, but there's no proof that it's not RL-related. Timbo and formulate coming out with the same thing within a couple of minutes looks a bit fishy, but at the same time, this would be really bad mafia play if they were working together. I remember that in the last game, we as a mafia group tried hard not to form obvious alliances and it would be really dumb for them to do something like that. GGG and squiggs are somewhat shady in my opinion too, I'll have some re-reading to do after I'm done grading my students' homework.
In any case, I will cast a vote later today. hmmhmmcamo's idea of not lynching anybody was rightly called out, I think that would be the worst strategy. We need to get the ball rolling at some point.