Spectators

[Shadoweh]

Why does it have to be a necessity? Is being a benefit not good enough?

We don't see it but I believe in actual confessionals on the show, the contestants get asked a lot of questions to answer. We only see the answer portions but it's not like they go off to randomly rant about Ozzy five hundred times just because he's always on their mind. People are more likely to talk when they're not talking to themselves, that's just psychology.

[Shadoweh]

You didn't outline a cost to having specs. The cost to not having specs is clearly less community engagement.
(something I think mafia games suffer from too, not being able to talk about a game for months is in general infuriating.)

[Shadoweh]

pandering on mafiascum dot net? Surely not!

[Shadoweh]

As a spec I check on everyone, there usually isn't so much in confessionals that it's hard to do that.
I think I'm a bit unusual in that regard though. >.> Most people get excited at the start and taper off while I'm the other way around.