One thing though, I've never been Mafia on a VGC Mafia game - but I have been Mafia on other websites: I don't think that the Mafia in this game would let Scottie get away with not posting at all, because it makes him look suspicious. I'm sure that the Mafia would be constantly PMing him, telling him to actually make an effort. Although the people listed above did lurk, this is much more (in terms of lurking)

But they aren't supposed to talk in the day.  They might not have thought to prod him last night. 

That postals list is an awesome resource even if I take it with a big grain of salt. 

For instance:  dtewi only has four posts?  That is extremely troubling.  I'm not yet prepared to say scummy -- I'd expect better from him than that if he was mafia -- but very troubling. 

Apologies. family stuff has been taking much of my time. I've been trying to keep abreast of what is being said, so I have been reading and thinking, even if not posting. I'm still going through a bit of a thinking process and will be casting suspicion soon

A quick post before work. For dtewi I only started counting once he had his role PM. Otherwise there's 3 more posts IIRC

Ok, I am thinking that a lot of analysis is being put in to post count. I have often seen a player's level of involvement and how skilled they generally are at the game be used as a tie breaker - if you have two people equally likely to be scum you might as well keep the one that is contributing the most (or kill off the smartest)

However, I think that those who argue that a mafia would avoid posting entirely to avoid suspicion is either very incorrect or outright scummy. Quite clearly avoiding posting altogether does not avoid you suspicion, which is pretty obvious really.

So my suspicion is being leveled at those with moderate post counts, as well as those who are seizing on the low post count excuse to try to get townsfolk townkilled (or are simply townsfolk killing for a bad reason, but if they are it is no huge loss)

MG is very much giving off a mafia vibe at the moment. Posting enough to avoid his absence being noted, but not enough that he can end up saying incriminating things or attracting too much attention. Seizing on any excuse to call someone scum and then when the flaws in his reasoning are pointed out he says nothing. Voting for no lynch also makes me think he's scummy - the townsfolk were already aimed in the wrong direction and so he just abstained so he could later use it as a defense.

Vote: MG

I checked back and nen-suer did a lot of posting arguing about the importance of knowing the Mafia numbers right now but he also brought forward the point that (according to him) zexen tends to night kill people who disagree with him which I believe sparked the conversation between zexen and Gnizmo about the Death Note game.

He also comment on the possibilty of a Serial Killer in a vanilla game. So most posts were geared towards meta-game subjects but there's not much else to talk about on Day One.

dtewi is in Orlando and won't come back till wednesday

Sorry about not posting, I haven't been feeling well lately, I still don't, I've read all the posts so far but my head still hurts so I can't go and deep analyze every single post.

But I still see that nen is playing his uncommited game, where he'll play it safe until he can be sure he can vote. Nen, first, voting for a hunch is perfectly fine, as nothing in this game is sure, when you vote you can't know for sure that you're lynching a mafia (unless you have a proven cop investigate scum, of course), you need to trust your instincts a bit to vote. If the town were to just wait for a massive slip up to vote for someone you'd end up with no lynches 90% of the time, because when you lynch you really can't know for sure and it's not like players here are that stupid to make it certain to everyone they're mafia.

As I said in Day 1, you seem to try to be derailing the thread with shunning things, first you said you didn't care about the only info we had, then you say you'll only vote when you're completely sure of things and that you won't take back your vote, that sounds more to me like "I'll vote when the bandwagon is strong enough that I know X guy will be lynched".

Town or scum, either way, that doesn't help us at all, we don't need bandwagoners

Vote: Nen