Homestuck Mafia Thread

[rpgdemon]

Originally Posted by Solid Snake

NOTE: A couple of your votes or revotes did not count. Most notably, make sure your formatting is correct and similarly, be sure to un-vote before you re-vote (unless your original vote was a joke vote on a non-player like Inbred Chocobo's on me, lol.)

Why does that matter? I mean, if you know what they mean, and they know what they mean, why be all, "Well, you did it wrong"?

[rpgdemon]

Hit post too soon. Like, if there's some strategy to fake-voting, and I'm missing it, then let me know, but I dunno what the big deal is about formatting.

[Fenris]

I'm imagining that Snake is finding votes using the CTRL+F feature and including the hashtags makes it easier to find.

Otherwise the bold and the hashtags makes it stick out more amongst the blocks of text. I know I required people to include votes and unvotes on their own lines for just that purpose when I wanted a quick vote count.

[Thadius]

Oh okay.

##Unvote: No Lynch, ##Vote: Smarty

Of course, one would think that voting for lynching someone would by itself cancel a no-lynch vote...

[Mr.Bookworm]

##Unvote: Fenris

I really am not sure who to go for here, but as several people have said, we do need to lynch someone. So I'll go with ##Vote: Thadius.

[Solid Snake]

Originally Posted by Fenris

I'm imagining that Snake is finding votes using the CTRL+F feature and including the hashtags makes it easier to find.

Otherwise the bold and the hashtags makes it stick out more amongst the blocks of text. I know I required people to include votes and unvotes on their own lines for just that purpose when I wanted a quick vote count.

Yeah, it's intended to help me find votes easier (though as already noted, the system isn't foolproof), and also because a rule that's too broad might capture 'votes' people make that aren't actually intended to be votes, and requiring the hashtags and the bold font generally ensures that when you vote you mean it.

[P-Sleazy]

I protest!

I see no such player named "Let's say P-Sleazy". And seeing as that is not my name, I do not beleive Lumenskir correctly voted for anyone. Therefore, I request that this vote be removed off my name until such time when it is clear that the vote is on me, and not on "Lets Say P-Sleazy", whom-so-ever (s)he may be (and whom I assure you is most certainly is not me).

[Solid Snake]

Originally Posted by P-Sleazy

I protest!

I see no such player named "Let's say P-Sleazy". And seeing as that is not my name, I do not beleive Lumenskir correctly voted for anyone. Therefore, I request that this vote be removed off my name until such time when it is clear that the vote is on me, and not on "Lets Say P-Sleazy", whom-so-ever (s)he may be (and whom I assure you is most certainly is not me).

I'm not going to be that anal about it. If you follow the format with the Bold and the Hashtags so I can Ctrl-F and it's obvious who you're voting for, I refuse to be so obsessive-compulsive as to deny Thadius his vote for calling Smarty 'Smartass', for example.

(Though that is ever-so-slightly dipping into the realm of unnecessary ad hominem, so all things being equal I'd try to stay away from that if you could.)

But no, despite how I may or may not sound, I am not trying to be the second coming of Stalin in enforcing rules here. No editing is very important, and the vote formatting is very important, most of the rest is less important.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

We have a lot of random voting going on right now. As far as I see it we have three people with any level of suspicious behaviour- not a lot of evidence but its day 1.
2 of them are RPG and Thad who I called out for no lynch voting
1 of them is me for being "suspicious in calling people out".
I think it would be a good idea to get a reasonable consensus on one of these candidates, even if its me, rather than just random voting everyone.
We have some evidence day 1 it's more than we normally have, we should use it.

Of the choices it's basically me or one of RPG/Thad.
On the second option I would be amenable to either of them but I'm with Thad at the moment just as the initiator.

[Inbred Chocobo]

Time for IC's analysis of the situation so far.

We have a couple of people voting no lynch in the beginning, and we got someone hellbent on bringing them to justice for their gross mis-deeds, Smarty. Most of their defense has been either someone not sure what to do and the other using roleplaying defense, going on about blood or something. Possible sign that people of royal blood are mafians and low-bloods the townies, unsure yet, depends on what people say. Smarty's last post is pushing hard for that lynch, and has positioned himself as one of our man possibilities of lynching, which feels like he is trying to be the nice guy "If you have to kill one of us, I volunteer" and then no one wants to kill him person, so a good defense move there. Doesn't seem warrented though so why did he say that?

Other things I've noticed in the thread is Bard has a total of 2 posts, both of which amount to being confused and not wanting to draw attention. Mr. Bookworm basically just jumped on a bandwagon for lynching Thadius, and commented that we have to lynch someone, might as well be him. Greed has been strangely quiet since his initial post, I imagine either because he just doesn't have input, is confused about the situation, or doesn't wish to draw attention to himself.

Strangely enough, another thing I've seen done in mafian games past is people joke and have fun in the beginning, as you make someone laugh and they will think a better thought about you, as even humor can be a good defense. Fenris had a little fun poking at the tag, though I'm not sure that would amount. Hell I'm guilty of that too, but make of that what you will.

After reading over the thread a couple times, I'm going with this

## Unvote: Ryanderman
## Vote: Bard