What do you want Chaqa, a well evidenced, post-by-post assembly of a case one hour into day 1? I think for this early it was a pretty good case.

I think somethinf we should get out of the way is talk about our experience. Like what I asked ghug earlier about his past games. This way we can compare post styles and whatnot. It proved very useful last game as I was able to notice a change in ghug's post style and that helped et him lynched (he was mafia last game)

I have onkl played online mafia once in M6 and I was town.

Two hours*

only*

Just a bit early is all

Yoyo, the difference in post style last game was me being grumpy because my dog died. You also weren't the one who noticed it. The difference in post style this game is that I'm high as balls. Post style is useful to look at, but it also gives a lot of false positives and false negatives, so be careful about putting too much faith in it.

I was not talking about your grumpiness. My condolences to you though. I ead refering to your interactions with other past players

I agree we should take it worth a grain of salt but it's still something to do.

Im pretty sure my post count in this game is already greater than mine in the last. This is my second take at mafia, and I'm hoping to be more active this time around.

Ghug said he was done dicking around and continued doing so. Lying is a mafia trait. He also picked up on some tiny potential scumslips from Mintyboy. My diagnosis? They are in the mafia together, Ghug is therefore overreacting to scumslips form mintyboy since he KNOWS minty is scum.

##vote ghug

Oh shit I had the page open from an hour or two ago and it was only on page 2, should have refreshed before posting on fucking page 5. Betting most of those are spam. *sigh* Going back to read.

Thdfrance: I opened your twitter page and my computer crashed. No joke. Although you seem town.
Tvrocks: No read yet.
Mintyboy: You were an obvtown read for me in the graveyard last game. I'm not getting it this game yet. :O
Ghug: Obvtown
Yoyoyozo: hmmmmmm, you may be scum this game.

Am I the only one being freaked out that Vashta's posting has made sense so far? Must be scum.

##depose Maniac
##Flum for prez

"hmmmmmmm, you may be the scum in this game"
Am I supposed to respond to this? Do you have any particular reason why you think I might be scum?

Please note that the January 15 deadline for college apps are tomorrow so please make any arguments against me tonight if you want to give me enough time to get to it.

Also
##VOTE Fluminator
For shitty reads with no explanations whatsoever, except Vashta maybe

Mainly gut so far.
shrugs n hugs

Well, it seems we are starting to level out. Just watched the original King Kong, the effects are shit, but its an okay film. Probably going to do a reread, but we need an anchor for conversation to get started, Lynch v no Lynch is dead, so we could try power roles or voting systems.

Also, for those who follow the greatest person in history tournament, I'm goign to Dartmouth tomorrow and won't be back until Saturday night, so my press will be scarce unfortunately. So if someone "calls me out" for lurking, redirect them to this post.

"Lynch v no Lynch is dead, so we could try power roles or voting systems."

Jesus, did you learn anything last game?

@ghug: Yes, that John Lennon was kind of a dick.

##VOTE Vashta
It looks like you finally rolled scum. eh?

@Flum: Explain.

Vote Count (1/14 9:00 PM CST):

Mintyboy4 (2): ghug, OB
Ghug (2): VashtaNeurotic, stupidfighter
Fluminator (1): Yoyoyozo
uclabb (1): thdfrance
guak (1): Mintyboy4
VashtaNeurotic (1): Fluminator

No lynch (1): uclabb
No vote (1): Alextreme333
Depose Maniac (2): Fluminator, bo_sox48

Currently, NO ONE is set to be lynched.

##VOTE Fluminator

I still like minty and thdfrance, but Flum is acting super weird.

Sorry Vashta, I'm not explaining quite yet. Vote me if you feel you must.

Dude you are acting soo scummy, flum

i won't be able to be very active as today and tommorrow as i originally though. it's the end of the term, and i'm busier than i expected. don't expect much press (although admittedly i have not been very good at it) unless i survive the day. just throwing this out there as a warning. I don't have any suspicions yet but haven't looked into anyone yet. i wil ltry to become more active starting tomorrow evening.

also, just an afterthought we've already reached 145 replies and it's been around 3-4 hours. this fills fast.

Let's hear from some people who haven't been talking.

I only have seven +1s on my intro, so it's not going fast enough.

First of all, I feel like bo_sox is really going in on me. First he sends me that SK fake role PM, and then he calls me out in the political puppet write up:

"You are [name], a Political Puppet. You are either brand new at online Diplomacy or you have been around for five years and somehow haven't gotten past 100 . "

Low blow, bro.

Now that that is out fo the way, two things:

First of all, we don't have a SK to clear out all of the lurkers, so we need to be a little bit more aggressive in going after lurkers than we have been in the past, rather than identifying a conflict and then picking a side.

Second, I in some sense agree with Minty. We want as many unique accusations as we can get, and want to keep bandwagoning to a minimum. Obviously, I'm not an idiot, and just like in any first past the post system, we eventually will coalesce around 2 competing candidates, but I want to emphasize that we want this to happen naturally, essentially by necessity, near the end of the turn. I of course want people to try to rally people to see their side and agree with their choice to lynch, but I really don't want people to be saying things like "if it's between these two, I guess I'll go with him." Avoid this impulse for as long as possible and either argue for your own favorite lynch or, if you are joining a different person's lynch wagon, actively find new reasons and evidence that that person is mafia