Open 741: Red Flag [Endgame]
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Is the Random Voting Stage (RVS) truly a beneficial activity for Towns in the game of Mafia, or does it merely offer the illusion of productivity? We shall argue in favor of the latter.
We begin by noting that the RVS is misleadingly named. It is impossible to have a truly Random voting stage, as voting in a provably random way would violate the integrity of the game of Mafia.In post 1, northsidegal wrote:-Do not use any form of provable randomness. This includes dice tags, screenshots of random.org, etc. Saying you flipped a coin is okay, providing some sort of proof that you did isn’t.
Thus, Internet mafia sites such as mafiascum.net present a dilemma to their players: vote "randomly" (but not randomly) at the beginning of a game, or risk becoming a member of the "outgroup". One might draw parallels between the act of voting "randomly", when such a thing is impossible, and the act of lying, which is often considered anti-town by the esteemed experts of the field[who?]. As such, the RVS may serve to decrease town cohesion. Indeed, a statistically significant portion of Forum Mafia (FM) players interviewed were found to have lasting negative emotions toward their "random" voters.
Secondly, a wide variety of effective scumhunting tools are available to town players, including passionate but misguided accusation1, posting gifs, posting anime gifs, pointlessly speculating on the setup, tactically lurking, reaction testing, tactically replacing out, looking at cute cats2, vote-count analysis (VCA), lolhammering, etc., and the "randomness" of an RVS vote typically undermines such methods. As such, we propose a new standard of FM play that moves away from RVS and all its detrimental effects.
As an example, we shall perform a round of VCA by a process detailed3in the Mafia Discussion (MD) board on mafiascum.net.
From this votecount it can be trivially observed thatTHE MEME MENare of the mafia persuasion. As an added benefit, when both of them are lynched, the game will end in a Town Victory.
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Stop cringing at people's psots then
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how'd you know?In post 191, THE MEME MEN wrote:Ruru you're the one that chose the avi for your hydra right?
@Aster, he'll get to it, fear not
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Vote who you think is scumIn post 202, THE MEME MEN wrote:I know ofhrz and I know her MEME STYLE
Can I be the Psy to your CL?
Doesn't mean you have to townread me, but tell me who you think I should vote rn other than myself :3
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In post 119, Nibbui wrote:Spoiler:
^ kinda really lamist if I compare him here to a Micro I saw him playing
[/quote]In post 138, Nibbui wrote:
Sorry, I confused. It was not a micro, it was a mini normal.@yuurei what micro was this? I don't remember us playing a micro , ever
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Mini normal 2021
https://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=76702
We didn't play together though, I just replaced out of the game and read it all after
you're confusing these two accounts:
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YesIn post 259, Nibbui wrote:It's probably the anime image. I recommend you guys to either delete it- Blackjacks
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The lamist post itself was kind of scummy to me, but why do you think scum, choosing to make a lamist post about mafia theory, would post something they themselves don't believe?In post 297, Aster wrote:On the other hand, if THE MEME MAN is scum, this behaviour makes a whole lotta sense. He clearly cannot confidently present his opinion because he knows it is a scum opinion and/or doesn't even believe it himself. He can't find another presentable opinion that doesn't make him look stupid. He doesn't admit that he hadn't thought things through because I said earlier that I expected town to crusade that his opinion is right, and certainly he doesn't want to look like folding scum. Stuck with a no-win situation, he tries to make things go away by stalling and beating around the bush.- Blackjacks
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But you weren't exactly making up mafia theory that you didn't believe; if you were town in that game, thereIn post 304, Aster wrote:It seems plausible for scum to do it because I literally did that myself in my last scumgame (link.)wouldbe a potential mylo from your perspective
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How so?In post 328, Aster wrote:Their revised answers answer questions in a way that conflicts with his warning to be careful with voting.
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Idk about crusading, but I do think 134 was LH insisting his initial statement was correct. as you pointed out in 144, that was slightly town indicativeIn post 297, Aster wrote: <snip>
I said earlier that I expected town to crusade that his opinion is right, and certainly he doesn't want to look like folding scum.- Blackjacks
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-rIn post 81, pinturicchio wrote:So won't the real jester please stand up?- Blackjacks
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Remind me why you’re scumreading nibbui again?
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Popping in every 46 hours and posting things that other people have already said is also volxen’s scumgame in my experienceIn post 415, Blackjacks wrote:368 is mostly parroting thoughts that have already been raised and beaten to death
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Thoughts on the current wagons?In post 421, Springtrap wrote:I dont know what part of this game to take seriously anymore. I dont think that's a good sign.- Blackjacks
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I didn't push your policy lynch day one, you just acted like I didIn post 492, RadiantCowbells wrote:ruru in our last game started talking on d1 about how it was autolose if she left scum me alive and seriously advocated policy lynching me day one.
this game she's avoided me entirely, has made zero decent content posts, and is shit pushing town.
I strongly believed in policy copping you day two because I misunderstood the setup
players I would policy lynch 100% of the time are players like jaydragonking who always lose the game for town as either alignment
you're someone I would consider pling d1 if I don't have any scumreads, and there are setups where I would consider pling you even if I had scumreads, but I don't feel like pling you is particularly good in this setup.
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what's towny about this post?In post 486, RadiantCowbells wrote:
this is towny and the only real reason to scumread them is lack of content. it's just a generic bad wagonIn post 368, volxen wrote:What was your motivation in making this post? The part about warning people about voting. We aren't in lylo, so why would all four scum be inclined to all join the same wagon and quicklynch a townie on day one, when that would potentially bring all four of them under a lot of scrutiny on day two? Especially if the four scum were all the last four voters on the wagon and quickly voted back-to-back to bring the wagon to lynch. In lylo it would make sense for that to happen, but it doesn't make sense for the scumteam to do that on day one. It seems strange to be discouraging voting this early on in the game, especially since voting/pressuring is one way to help the game transition from "RVS" to "serious mode".
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I probably wouldn't post things like 102/115/260 or if I did I would overexplain them to make sure that everyone "got" themIn post 524, Nibbui wrote:
What do you think that scum you would be doing here differently?In post 523, Blackjacks wrote:yes, because I'm here to meme with ofrhz and enjoy myself
I might also be trying harder to look like I'm efforting
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In the time span between 173 and 368, volxen was only playing in one other game in which he made multiple posts.In post 481, Nibbui wrote: You guys accused him of the Ellitell, posting somewhere else while not posting in a certain game.
However, in my vision the Ellitell works on cases where the player ispurelynot interested in posting on that game while posting on others, if he might have had other reasons that tell fells flat. Volxen had only logged in for some time back then, and although he posted in one game, Keyser already said he didn't post in another one he is in as well.
Ellitell has worked on volxen in the past; he’s more likely to post when he’s town.
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In post 540, ofrhz wrote:
What parts did you agree with?In post 520, pinturicchio wrote:I agree with RC about Volxen, but it's null for me.- Blackjacks
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I was pretty obviously responding to the statement that you were not ellitelling. This isn’t even the only reason I’m scumreading you for anymoreIn post 542, volxen wrote:
I mean, I'm not sure why you are putting so much stock in this. I only have one completed scum game on site, and it seems like you are scumreading me here because of a certain ongoing game. At times I have gaps in my posts as both alignments. And yes if I am playing multiple games, I may not post each day in each game.In post 538, Blackjacks wrote:
In the time span between 173 and 368, volxen was only playing in one other game in which he made multiple posts.In post 481, Nibbui wrote: You guys accused him of the Ellitell, posting somewhere else while not posting in a certain game.
However, in my vision the Ellitell works on cases where the player ispurelynot interested in posting on that game while posting on others, if he might have had other reasons that tell fells flat. Volxen had only logged in for some time back then, and although he posted in one game, Keyser already said he didn't post in another one he is in as well.
Ellitell has worked on volxen in the past; he’s more likely to post when he’s town.
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townreading volxen this confidently off of like one post is still really questionable to me and I'd like a better explanation than "lol his iso is better than urs" which doesn't make him town even if it's true, especially when the post you're townreading was basically just him stating uncontroversial ideas about how mafia games are played.In post 556, RadiantCowbells wrote:my townreads are rarely wrong
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I really don't want to hear any reason for a lynch other than "scummiest player" in this setup because scum can shoot their weakest / most widely scumread players if left aloneIn post 562, RadiantCowbells wrote:I want to get a flip on scum who wouldn't otherwise die
(this is, incidentally, one of the reasons why I feel policy lynching you is bad here.)
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