Cases are anti-town?

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Cases != Reasons (though I will often not give those either). There are a lot of issues with cases, they are biasing, they encourage the person you suspect to respond, 'winning' a 'case-off' is about whos a better debator, not about the strength of the case, they make the thread much more difficult to reread. They aren't only biasing for you ala confirmation bias as been pointed out, they are biasing for those reading the case too, they encourage others to focus on what you saw whether it was right or wrong, whether you saw the relevant points as to that players alignment or not. Everyone knows that arguing with the person you suspect is the best way to generate noise, you are never going to convince town that they are scum, and are never going to get scum to admit that they are scum. NOOOISE. So yeah, if you want to make a concise group of bullet points and ignore the target when he responds, go ahead and do that, but thats not what a 'case' was in 2006, and I don't really think its what a 'case' is now.


edit: And the logic vs gut debate is really dumb. Everyone should interact logically with everything at all times. There is nothing illogical about following your gut, unless its contradicted by hard facts, which almost never surface in mafia games.

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that's potentially a sign that wall posts were worse. If you're typing up 2,000 word essays with Point-by-point analysis, you don't have time to post a ton of smaller posts that add pages to a game.

The past couple of years the tendency has been toward LOTS of smaller posts.

In 05 there were more of a mix of smaller posts and bigger posts, then around late 07-09 the wall posts hit their max, and they have been on the fall ever since. Of course in 05-6 games were -really- short compared to now too, in terms of total posts and total words.