No Lynching at Evens

[Not_Mafia]

Should a No Lynch at even numbers happen at 50% or 50% + 1? (E.G In 8p Mylo shoyld a no lynch occur at 4 or 5 votes?)

[Not_Mafia]

The only argument I've ever seen for 50% no lynch is that requiring 50% + 1 slows the game down, but you could use the same argument to argue for a 50% threshold for lynches.

I think there's some fascination with having the threshold be different for a no lynch. I've always had the same threshold for both a lynch and a no lynch.

It slows the game down purely because those same half of players can just sit out the deadline and not lynch anyone, so the argument doesn't apply to lynches

[Not_Mafia]

What usually happens is one player eventually gets fed up and votes no lynch. Or one tunneling player refuses to switch and a no lynch wagon collapses when it was likely the optimal play

It's apathy inducing at best and competely pointless

[Not_Mafia]

It's up to the players to make it happen, and that's a stance I doubt I'm ever going to change.

It's also not the mod's job to prevent 'pointless apathy' from occurring.

It's not a mod's job to have a rule encouraging it. If half of the players don't want a lynch, a lynch cannot happen, this is the default, not 50%+1.

[Not_Mafia]

No one else can form a majority when a lynch suspect reaches 50% of the vote by that logic.

And that's when a no lynch occurs. When 50% of people want to lynch Zachrulez, there is an alternative that can happen, when 50% of people don't want to lynch at all, there is no alternative. They're entirely different.

[Not_Mafia]

The hammer at 50%+1 argument is silly. It makes an ASSUMPTION that the players voting for Zachrulez will always vote for Zachrulez and won't change their mind. That is a terrible assumption.

Your argument just doesn't mean anything

[Not_Mafia]

They are different and so are treated differently, it's not one being treated specially.

When 50% of people want to lynch Zachrulez, there is an alternative that can happen, when 50% of people don't want to lynch at all, there is no alternative. They're entirely different.