It also never says whether or not they can talk during day and night, and it never clarifies whether or not communicaition with each other was considered a mafia action. Which is why I asked if that was the case.  

You realize that is a question asking for clarification and understanding and not a statement of fact right? That question was based on the fact that WoW said "You have no Night action unless you are Mafia / Scum or you have some sort of power role that allows action during the night." It also never said anywhere that mafias ability to comminunicate in another chat which you said they had was considered a mafia action which I got the impression that only mafia actions could be done at night unless someone had a power role. So I asked for clarification.

Also WoW never went over in PMs whether or not mafia being able to communicate with each other was an action or not or whether or not it could be done at night only or during the day. I had vague understanding of that subject based on Padib's apparent expertise on the subject. I see now tho I should have asked WoW instead of asking you guys because apparently being inexperienced and asking for more info, clarification, and understanding makes you an easy target.

Actually, you MEANT, not said. be more careful about how you talk in mafia. Slight exaggerations like that lead to lynches pretty quickly when they're caught. I don't think it was your intent though.

I now see that you had some kind of thing about the word them. I'm sorry, but I'm 30, and since I was a kid, the correct usage has always been the twin usage "he or she".

If ANYONE calls, tell them...
If my new teacher calls, tell him or her...

Secondly, again, that statement doesn't tell us that mafia know each other NOW.

IF they can't talk to each other now, how do we know if they've even met? There are games wherein mafia don't know each other until night one starts. Some games start specifically with night zero in order to allow for this. Other games allow quick meeting beforehand despite no night 1. Some allow an experienced user to talk continuously as a "mentor" but do not allow other mafia to talk.

It's not my poor reading comprehension that's the problem here, it's that I'm overly anal about the specific use of words.

@nickels
I am really very interested to know about why you think talking during the night is an action.

I don't know if it's an action or not. It's not exactly been made clear. Why wouldn't it be an action? Speaking is an active movement and I assume you have to be around people in order to speak with them. I'm unsure if there are cell phones or walkie talkies in this world or not. If not then I think it would be difficult day or night to preform an action like investigating someone while they are busy talking with other people. So is it an action or isn't it? What I'm interested in knowing is why you and Padib keep treating my questions like they are statements of fact. Is it the tone? Are there not enough question marks? I get it you two obviously have a lot of experience.What I don't understand is if you guys were fellow townies why wouldn't you answer my questions and help me better understand why my understanding and assumptions have been wrong? Wouldn't that help the town? Instead ya both construe my inquiries treating them like factual statements and acting like apex predators going after a weak gazel. I find that incredibly suspicious.

Bows? Pfft. Who needs them? Too dangerous for my liking.

Just to explain a bit:

In line with my previous "comprehension fail", words and statements are important in mafia. Like...really important..because sometimes people hint about things, and sometimes they also make slips. A slip would be like if I ASSUMED that mafia could talk during the day. Now, SPECIFICALLY, this is important to look at with noobs, because a lot of the time noobs don't know that there are alternatives. A noob mafia who can talk during the day could assume that the ability to do so is simply an understood global rule. That would be a slip.

It's not conclusive, but it is worth investigating.

Similarly to the word them and that whole situation. For instance, I could perhaps interpret that when you said you pm'ed "them" you might have actually been saying that you were chatting in another thread, and instead using a pm for cover. There have been times myself when I have been in mafia and asked the mod a question in the mafia forum, and then in the game thread explained that I had PM'ed the mod. Now, the alternative is that you simply meant you ACTUALLY pm'd WoW, but since you included padib and used the word "them", it gave me an odd feeling like there was a group discussion going on, and you were simply covering the way a typical mafia would.

This is further complicated by padib now attacking you, which could be interpreted as distancing, ie, you're both mafia and padib is going after you because he feels you're a lynch candidate, knows you will turn up as mafia, and he wants people to think he's a good townie going after scum. It's just a possibility floating around there. There are maybe 3 possible reasons. Another possibility is that he's town going after what he thinks is a mafia. This may seem trivial and insignificant to you now, but later on in the game it will be important to remember who went after whom and for what and why. I'm personally glad he's coming forward, because he's establishing that connection. There are others who aren't posting at all. Those people concern me more.

Back to your questions.
1 I don't know if talking at night is an action. I don't know why you assumed it was. Do you think talking during the day is an action?
2 I'm treating your statements as fact because as described above, when someone asks a question about setup, then by deduction there is something that you know.
3 I'd prefer to find out what you know before I explain something to you. If you're feeling pressure, why would I alleviate that? Answering your questions doesn't help me find scum..cuz I don't actually know if you're town or not, and to be perfectly honest, if you're scum, then this whole post is only helping you hide yourself better.

Lastly, I understand your concern about padib and myself. I don't necessarily trust him either.

Lemme show you something

The red stands for accusations, the green stands for defending.

Can you guess who the mafia is here based on this picture? This is from a single day of posting during a game.

It shouldn't be that hard to figure out. It's because he's a complete noob and is misunderstanding a lot of things. All this arguing is annoying. Nickles, town or mafia, has no idea what he's doing, even for a noob. That back and forth blathering on between you two is giving me a headache, but from what I could stand to read of it the boy has some honest questions and is clearly confused about a lot of things. The term "action" has a different context here that he doesn't seem to grasp. For the record, nickles, action isn't meant in it's literal everyday context in this game. In fact a lot of things can't just be taken at face value, that's why people like prof are being analytical about semantics. But seriously though, there's a lot of confusion here. I'm new to this too. What exactly is a "town tell"? I suppose he's suspicious though, so FOS for nicklesbe then.

But whatever, I'm sick of your semantics, I'm sick of your overanalysis, and I'm sick of your over eagerness to lynch someone. It's not only the first day, but it's barely been a day of real time and you've already accused enough people I'm losing track. You clearly have something to hide. Hand of suspicion to the prof00. Your behavior is simply too agressive. You're either a mafia trying to lead the lynch mob or you're a trigger happy fool with a silver tongue. Either way, I'm thinking the town might be better off without you.