Spectate/Dead threads/DC ought to be mandatory

[Nancy Drew 39]

To have a private forum/DC to discuss the game, get spoiled and most important of all, to yell at gamethrowing idiots, which are the bane of every good mafia player’s existence.

[Nancy Drew 39]

ppl barely post in them though. Like they are fun to read and yeah, mods should make b/c what's the harm? but making it mandatory is not really something I agree with but a decent mod should go ahead and take the 10 seconds it takes to make one.

I think it’s unfair to the players not to have one but not necessarily the case. The Heroes’ dead thread was ginormous.

[Nancy Drew 39]

No. They are more often than not toxic and help to contribute to the toxicity of the site.

How so? I think the exact opposite is true. Players need a moderated place to discuss the game. I’d even argue it’s therapeutic and good for the site.

[Nancy Drew 39]

Dead threads are a fun place to shitpost. I’d argue, one of the highlights of playing mafia.

[Nancy Drew 39]

No. They are more often than not toxic and help to contribute to the toxicity of the site.

How so? I think the exact opposite is true. Players need a moderated place to discuss the game. I’d even argue it’s therapeutic and good for the site.

yelling at gamethrowing idiots is toxic, calling them idiots is toxic, you should be nice to them

Disagree. A dead thread is the only place to talk about an ongoing game you’re not in.

[Nancy Drew 39]

I wished there were discord chats, but whatever.

+1

Yeah, that would be even better.

[Nancy Drew 39]

Yes, it's toxic, but we eventually make up.

Creature totally gets it. <3

[Nancy Drew 39]

get spoiled

i dont think this should be mandatory, mod's discretion for spoiling the dead thread is fine
i like to keep my dead guessing up to a point
i do enjoy the existence of dead threads in general

Has a mod actually refused to make you a dead thread when you asked?

And I don't agree with mandatory spoiling. Some people in the dead thread are still game solving and those spoiler tags are hard to resist.

Just to be clear, it was the actual existence of the spec/dead thread I argued to be mandatory, not the spoiling aspect. You can either ask the mod to use spoiler tags or pm them. Sometimes rarely, they’ve even made a 2nd thread for that.

@MJL I haven’t made any requests so I don’t know. I do recall at least one instance in the past, of this request being denied though.

[Nancy Drew 39]

I wished there were discord chats, but whatever.

+1

Yeah, that would be even better.

Nothing is stoping you from doing this. Just sayin.

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i've never understood why people feel entitled to a spectator thread (I basically never have them), but I do think dead threads tend to be valuable.

Because 99% of mods have one and people are social creatures so they like to talk about things they were apart of.

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Has a mod actually refused to make you a dead thread when you asked?

And I don't agree with mandatory spoiling. Some people in the dead thread are still game solving and those spoiler tags are hard to resist.

imagine refusing to make a dead thread.

Mandatory spoiling is bad tbh.
Its a lot more fun to feed spoilers one by one tbh

Well, if I ever mod a game, I would probably take full advantage of Discord and for more than just spec/dead thread. Krazy is a mod that does his best to maintain game involvement by all interested parties and utilizes both a spec/dead PT and a dead/spec DC as well. Using Discord also makes it really easy to set up both spoiled and unspoiled chats for those who want them, which is exactly what he did in Starcraft 2.

[Nancy Drew 39]

Players need a moderated place to discuss the game.

I agree with Nancy here. Having a place for dead players/players that didn't have time to join the game talk/vent about the game seems p good.

+1

[Nancy Drew 39]

i've never understood why people feel entitled to a spectator thread (I basically never have them), but I do think dead threads tend to be valuable.

Because you aren’t allowed to discuss ongoing games you’re not in, anywhere else.

[Nancy Drew 39]

go mod a game Nancy, I'll back you up and help you out.

<3

[Nancy Drew 39]

Man, I seriously need to

yell at

kindly and gently reprimand some people.