Not sure I "get it", but I believe he is trying to say that much of the confusion he had wrought came because of the strangeness of his race's chat and his not expecting the other races to have one of their own.

Frankly, the only reasons I don't suspect Flub right now.
1) How close he came to actually getting lynched.
2) If we are dealing with cults, Flub's flamboyancy would make him a terrible cult leader. I can't image such a person posting so much. If I were looking for a cult leader, I'd probably be looking for a semi-lurker who deftly avoids getting pinned down on much. Off the top of my head, names like nmillar and JMich come to mind. Just enough participation, but not taking too many sides nor getting involved in much of the craziness.

I meant : why would a townie decide to hide from the other members of their own species ?

Or, more straightforward : how can this be interpreted, affiliation-wise ?

Hmm...interesting, guess I didn't grok that.

Let me preface by saying that my own race is all accounted for (in fact the mod told us who our missing member was) in such a way as to believe we have a complete accounting.

I guess someone could be town and try to confuse the scum? Seems like an awful stretch, especially since the day 1 assumption was we were dealing with 4-5 scum with at least one in each race. And based on that the scum would be able to figure out who was whom.

Frankly, that sure sounds like scum to me...

You are aware of the term WIFOM, right? If you know that the cult leader will be lurking, and the cult leader knows you know he'll be lurking, then the cult leader won't be lurking.
But if you know the cult leader knows you know, then he should be lurking.
And so on, and so on.

We could get into the semantics of things, but just because someone may counterplay us, is no reason to completely ignore the tendency. On that basis, why aren't we just all picking randomly, since every little post could be a carefully crafted plot. Just like picking the World Cup, there will be upsets, but at the end of the day, need to place your money on the best teams. In Flub's case, he's been so out front, it's just hard for me to believe he could be a cult leader unless his plan were to be suicidally brave and that's difficult to believe because I think the majority thought we had a straight mafia game on day 1 (not that we still might).

Still alive, but work scheduling for this week is wrecking havok on my brain, I keep thinking I have more time then I do when I really don't. Will try to post something when I get home from work. Still alive, and paying attention though, but a 4 hour shift doesn't bode well for my brain.

At this point, I don't think it can be interpreted one way or the other for certain. I can see pro-town reasons as well as anti-town reasons for staying anonymous. If you suspect your group has been infiltrated (which, given the OP, seems to be a valid paranoia), then there might be some very good reasons to stay hidden for the time being. On the flip side, if you are actually doing the nefarious infiltrating, then staying anonymous might also be a good plan.

Flubbucket mentions:
My main question is how exactly is it known that more than one is remaining anonymous? The use of the word 'some' implies a number greater than one, but how can this be known if the chat is anonymous?

This.

good point. Apart from this:

do we know yet how many would be in each race? The mod have not told us other any such thing...

In our chat I've been talking openly and so others have used variants of my name ...in the beginning. Afterwards, a couple used real names to log thoughts but we were still restricted from speaking or addressing each other directly. With so many pseudonym floating around it's been hard to know how many are actually in our group.

No one can answer a question directly so surely you can see the conundrum.

First, I apologize for not posting. It's hardly an excuse, but Kyoto is way too hot to think. And what I could use of my brain has been wasted in more "important" matters (I'll be opening a thread on that soon, that's why I'm at the forum actually... I had forgotten about the mafia game).

Anyway, I found that post interesting as, after reading it, a lot of other conversations now make more sense. I'll say I'm a neighbour then, but just like flub I don't know who others stay around me. Which is a fun similarity with my current room at the share hause I'm renting, heh. Anyway, my "chat" is a quicktopic (like the dead threads I've seen until now always were) and people found it funny to post under aliases. I have revealed my name in there, but others have not, therefore flub's point of "they know me but I don't know them" is not particularly strange.


Funny, same thing on mine. However, there's somebody who has repeatedly done just that without any noticeable repercusion. I find that highly suspicious, as if that person had a different set of rules from my own despite being on my "race chat". Only one reason I can think of for that. Unless A_Future_Pilot just hasn't bothered to give that person a public warning.

What.

There is a species of "can't answer any question directly" ?

When I asked if I could post under the alias "totatlly not mafia", he laughed and said it was OK. So there you go.

cheers