Here’s the issue with that.In post 0, NerfedBuJ wrote:Low in-game activity is bad.
How can we encourage more discussion WITHOUT sacrificing post quality?
Increasing quantity is doable. Currently most mods don't, but it can be done. You just make stricter activity rules. Moe replacements, more modkillings.
However that will either just ruin games because of lack of players or too many modkills, or the thread is filled with nonsense and spam. Higher page counts, people unwilling to catch up, game suffers, and we're back to square one.
I was thinking what if we add a secret vote each night (or some other interval for nightless games), where 1 of the let's say 3 bottom posters have to be lynched. Each player send a PM to the mod with their choice (the idea is to choose who they feel is contributing less regardless of actual postcount), and whoever gets the most votes gets killed. (In case of a tie the lower post count would get killed).
Obviously this is too much power for scum as they will likely have enough votes to gain plurality in most cases. So I figured they just aren't included. Since the vote is secret the mod just contacts each townie individually and asks for their vote.
It's not ideal but we're a step closer I think. However we now have to tackle the problem of balancing, since this is now an extra kill each night. We can restrict it so it isn't every night by first having all players vote for if the activity level is satisfactory or not, but even if that would help, it doesn't solve the balance issue. You're still facing the potential for too many kills.
The other problem is post length differs from person to person. Someone who posts walls will always have less posts than someone who posts one liners. That is a fundamental difference in style and punishes one style for doing nothing wrong.
I know we can all just accepts it as a natural side effect of forum mafia, as we've all been doing anyway, but there's no harm in trying to come up with solutions. If the discussion doesn't lead anywhere we're no worse then when we started. So pitch in, all ideas are welcome.
You won’t if ever lynch scum with that unless scum want the buddy dead.
What in general other sites have done is a slank vig which while not perfect can be town or scum aligned and can just kill the lurkers while giving information to go off of.