Anonymous Mafia

[northsidegal]

while i do think that outright claiming who you are goes against the spirit of an anonymous game and could probably be banned without significantly harming the game, don't you guys think that in an anonymous game pretending to be someone else is a valid strategy? that's what ellibereth did in the one anonymous game i tried to run.

[northsidegal]

don't think that's true? or verifiable

[northsidegal]

You immediately state its not verifiable because you don't have a great argument to say it's not true.

that's not how burden of proof works

[northsidegal]

shrug

had this discussion enough times that i don't even really feel like retreading the same points. if you don't like meta then i hope you get to play in more anonymous games, let me know if you want me to mod one sometime (privately, obviously)

[northsidegal]

you haven't given any proof, you've given what you think is the case. you literally prefixed it with "i believe". it's an argument, sure – but not proof.

[northsidegal]

okay, here's my thought experiment – let's say the game of mafia began with some people sitting around a table, with just mafia, townies, a lynch and a nightkill. let's say they played a bunch of games in a row, and then let's say that the people at the table started to notice that person A is pretty chatty in games where he turns out to be town, and clams up in games where he turns out to be scum.

that's meta.

do you think that they either did not notice this or noticed it and thought to themselves "hmm, this shouldn't be a feature of the game that we just invented"? i don't think either of those things are the case.