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@Savant
I said behavioral reads are useless (or close to useless) if scum do what they would do as town. I buy that catching people in a lie is the point of mafia, but let's be honest and admit that special roles change the whole dynamic. Concrete evidence will always be a better way of catching liars than vibes alone. In Town of Salem, most lynching is done based on actual evidence since people have special abilities and the game is text-based, making it hard to catch liars (humans are bad lie detectors anyway). Forum mafia is closer to TOS than it is to traditional mafia. I go off behavioral reads when there's nothing else, but it will almost always be less effective than actual evidence.
The whole point is that scum can't imitate town. They have the burden of knowing they have no way to genuinely scumhunt, the burden of knowing that every vote of theirs is pushing for a mislynch, and the burden of trying to misdirect town while also appearing town.
There's a type of forum mafia called "mountainous" which is essentially a themeless, roleless game. Town wins about 30-40% of the time based on both expectationss and theoretical results. https://wiki.mafiascum.net/index.php?title=Mountainous
So no, behavioral reads are never useless. In fact, they should take priority over anything else, especially in a game by a mod who has admitted in the past that he gives scum ways to counter and misdirect all of town's PRs, and who has a history of making setups with a non-obvious themesplit and strong fakeclaims.
And let's be honest, of the players that have given no information, your behavior makes you the most suspicious. So going after you is based on a behavioral read. I'm almost certain it's you or Pie, so we'll get at least one scum.
Please clarify your behavioral reads. And what do you mean by "I'm almost certain it's you or Pie, so we'll get at least one scum?"
It's also odd you would accuse me since I followed you into voting Pie given how certain you were, until he claimed the main character with no counterclaims.
I don't find you voting for Pie scummy, I find the fact that you did it with very little reasoning other than just following the crowd suspicious. We're well past the point of voting people randomly. You've given thorough explanations for almost all your other actions in this game, so why bandwagoning Pie?
Scum cannot afford to sacrifice for their own in 7v2, so if you are town and our certain that Pie is scum, you would have a great reason to believe that I am town. Even if I rely 100% on behavioral reads, your actions don't make sense.
Pie was never in danger of being lynched, period. In fact, distancing (scum voting each other without intent to elim) is a pretty common tell.
Given that you've accused everyone except Barney, and he's avoided voting for you, I highly suspect the two of you.
I've in fact accused two, maybe three, people at most. I townread him because his utter righteous indignation and his lack of hesitance to antagonize several active players is at odds from how he played in the last game. And by this logic of "players not voting each other must be scum", you can make arbitrary associations between anyone in the game.
