Do influential people always provide better arguments?

[Faraday]

When someone that is well-known posts arguments for the lynch of a player, it almost always goes through

Well, obviously this is a bit simplistic? Since there'll probably be greater than 1 player who's well known, so if they disagree both can't get their way.

Repetition + force of will can get through a lynch though. Having a repuation for being a good scumhunter/good player is of course likely to help.

[Faraday]

Also if you have a game of good players you can get a group think going, so once someone "good" points something out, you're more likely to read the player they're voting and try to re-evulate the player and maybe you'll see what they see and :wagons:.

And it's certainly not "necessary" to be well known, but it helps. But I would think that was kind of obvious to everyone -- that having a good repuation as a scumhunter is *more likely* to result in you being listened to. It doesn't mean they're arguments are better every time, and they may be wrong a lot but yeah.

[Faraday]

I think a lot of it comes down to charisma, which is hard to "learn", at least for certain people. It can certainly be something you improve upon, I feel i've gotten much better as it as I've gone on. I don't think I was ever terrible at getting who I wanted lynched, but I certainly think I've gotten better at it.

[Faraday]

I don't think I'ma particularly

good

writer. Maybe you don't mean "write well" in the technical sense, though. In which case yes, how you write things is obviously how you present yourself in a forum mafia setting so having good or at least interesting (see: Fate) ways of getting your message across helps.

[Faraday]

I feel like self confidence helps as well when it comes to getting people to follow you.

[Faraday]

I think he means you need to learn that certain things work in certain environments. I.e. screaming will work better in some games than others. Which is fair, it's not something I've ever thought good players find hard to adapt to, being able to adapt is obviously a skill needed though.