chat8bit: Mafia

[Nikose Tyris]

I've read through the thread a couple times now, examining different people's actions, and Fenris's story. After reading it through carefully, and garnering only that weird evidence where your brain goes, "It's totally this person" have I come up with a good reason to vote, based on Fenris's little story, and the actions of others.


I'm voting steel_shadow for using the term, "Bandwagoning" on IHMN when, at that point, IHMN and I had the same amount of votes.

Originally Posted by B_real_shadows

Just for the people who are inactive, GET A POST IN DAMNIT! We don't need to be plagued with dropout townies and a day 2-3 win for the mafia again.

The ones who don't have a SINGLE post in this thread are

Kneumatic Pnight
The Wizard Who Did It
Raiden

So a GIANT FOS on you till you post.

Anybody else wondering what ever became of those two?

[Roy_D_Mylote]

Nikose, I really don't understand your vote. Keep in mind I'm dumb, so it might just be that.

TGT: Yes. Yes I am.

[The Kneumatic Pnight]

Originally Posted by Roy_D_Mylote

S/he voted without "giving a reason" and also FOS'd the person he voted for, and when someone else (Mesden) voted for IHMN, he said "That's the reason for my FOS, the reason Mesden said" but didn't say that was the reason for his vote. I personally don't get it.

No, it was that Nikose voted for IHMN because he had done something stupid (albeit, not particularly scummy) and proceeded to not explain it. Mesden, like a ligitimate voter, proceeded to do the same, with explaination. Nikose, then, somehow managed to bandwaggon with Mesden after having voted first, by latching onto her reasons.

This is in lieu of giving his own reasons. In essence, it looks very much like he tried to start a bandwagon-like movement: focus all attention on IHMN because he seemed obvious and then legitimize it later. It might be voting for the most obvious choice and then using the reasons of those more experienced than you. It might also be an attempt to defer attention directly to the most blatant person (who, incidentally, was a townie for what that means) and then attempt to defer legitimacy to others, perhaps to take the fall for you.

It's practically the perfect plan for a mafioid, and on the flip side, if he's not one, he's a particularly poor player. Either way, however, the new-guy routine and course of action don't sit right with me.

However, I'm currently watching for something... and I'd rather not whing about unnecessary votes and unnecessary words when I don't have to.

[CrazyBen]

Originally Posted by Nikose

I'm voting steel_shadow for using the term, "Bandwagoning" on IHMN when, at that point, IHMN and I had the same amount of votes.

"Bandwagoning" would mean you're voting for someone purely because a bunch of other people are. It doesn't neccessarily mean voting for who has the majority of votes, just that you're voting for no reason other than 'going with the flow.' Now, if you had had more votes than IHMN, it might have been suspicious.

[MariusTwilight]

Hrm. Well, after reviewing the thread again, as well as thinking about it, Nikose's actions don't yet warrent a vote on my part, though he has seemed to try to keep under cover. He also seems to have done an, apparently, random vote. So, for those reasons:

FOS: Nikose.

You do seem abit suspicious Nikose, but then agian, I could be wrong. As for Mesden and Ahra, at the moment I'm fairly convinced they are town aligned, for now.

[Truce]

Nikose strikes me as the kind of person who really would just make that kind of stupid mistake. That's the "feel" I get from him, especially when I look through his posts. If it were anybody else, I'd probably be suspicious, but Nikose is...Nikose, no offense.

That said, I'm sticking to my suspicions of GARUD. My final reason to vote for him may have been something of a joke, but there were others there too. Again, he didn't take anything seriously, just felt like he was trying to add to the confusion, and admitted that he planned on lurking-which just screams that he has something to hide to me.

So...

Vote: GARUD

[Fenris]

VOTE COUNT

Nikose (2)
IHateNakingNames
Arhra

Steel Shadow (1)
Nikose

GARUD (1)
Ecurt

11 TO LYNCH. NO DEADLINE YET.

[Roy_D_Mylote]

Well that certainly changes things. Very odd. But of course, no one has done a jack thing suspicious. So...nothing yet.

[Steel Shadow]

Originally Posted by Nikose

I've read through the thread a couple times now, examining different people's actions, and Fenris's story. After reading it through carefully, and garnering only that weird evidence where your brain goes, "It's totally this person" have I come up with a good reason to vote, based on Fenris's little story, and the actions of others.


I'm voting steel_shadow for using the term, "Bandwagoning" on IHMN when, at that point, IHMN and I had the same amount of votes.

I'm sorry, I did what now? Let me check that.

So, near as I cn tell we're voting for IHMN just becasue he took a joke to far? I realise that mafia's a ficcle game (note to self, make sure you know what ficcle really means) but this seems kinda dumb to me. And is it just me or does


Quote:
Originally Posted by marius twilight
Vote: IHMN

He really does seem like either a really crappy SK or just someone who doesn't want to play anymore. So in either case, yeah it is obvious.


look a ton like bandwagoning?

Ah, I see. Now the thing here is that bandwagoning is in fact, the act of banding to a wagon. In mafia terms, that means your joining into a vote with what looks like a really crappy reason becuase that way your in a group.. To me it looked like MT was just copying the people in front of him, and he'd tacked on something weird about him not wanting to play anymore. It looked scummy to me.


And actualy, this is the vote count a post before mine:

VOTE COUNT

IHateMakingNames (3)
Nikose
Arhra
MariusTwilight

Ogianres (1)
Newb

Newb (1)
Inbred Chocobo

12 TO LYNCH, NO DEADLINE YET.

Doesn't look like the votes were exactly even anyway. How'd you miss that?