Do influential people always provide better arguments?

[Katsuki]

It's a mix of the player and the playerbase. If you have an all-star lineup, blind sheeping of lynches (say, everyone who has a brain + faraday, those ones with brains aren't likely to just make faraday a kingmaker by lynching whoever he says), where as weaker players are more likely to follow those they perceive to be strong mafia players.

Of course being influential is more so about being charismatic and articulate (and sometimes logic but this is often times a trap). Players like faraday and DGB tend to be able to talk their way out of anything or make the things they want to happen easier than those who are bad at wording, regardless of how much BS is being spewn. Reputation plays a part but if you strip that away then it comes down to the posts themselves.

Another way is to scream your way into a lynch. Players enjoy listening to CAPS.

[Katsuki]

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.

For you and Fate though, your posting don't really differ from your personalities.

Humor does seem to be the common point of getting messages across, at least in my observations (I don't read walls and maybe wall communication is what works for certain people, but for the love of god don't do this it's not charismatic in the slightest).

@Llama: Pray tell, how do you 'learn' charisma? Some people have it, some just don't.