#1: A treatise on arguing in the game of mafia:

Xylthixlm · Post Post #6 (isolation #0) » Tue Sep 01, 2009 2:29 pm

Vi wrote:
Alduskkel wrote:
Pomegranate wrote:
RayFrost wrote:A++, would read again, would link to.

Xylthixlm · Post Post #17 (isolation #1) » Tue Sep 01, 2009 5:22 pm

Yosarian2 wrote:There are situations where it's the right move for a townie to be in "convincing mode" in order to convince the other person, and the rest of the town, that they actually are town; this is somewhat different from "convincing the town the person you are debating with is scum". If you are doing this, it's important to not attack the other person just because he's attacking you; that restriction can make it harder to debate, but if you honestly think that the person attacking you is likely to be town (and you need to think about this in as calm and logical a way as you possibly can), then you need to defend yourself and try to disprove with his arguments against you without actually attacking either his alignment or attacking him personally.

Usually if

I

do this the person I'm arguing with ends up more convinced I'm scum.

Xylthixlm · Post Post #32 (isolation #2) » Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:12 pm

My own subjective opinion is

excellent

for figuring out people's alignment. It's pretty horrible at convincing anyone else, but I can live with being Cassandra.

Xylthixlm · Post Post #38 (isolation #3) » Fri Sep 04, 2009 1:14 pm

Cobalt wrote:
Xylthixlm wrote:My own subjective opinion is
excellent
for figuring out people's alignment. It's pretty horrible at convincing anyone else, but I can live with being Cassandra.
Of course, when you're scum then your Cassandra role would be very handy. "Oh yeah guys, sorry not good at explaining things but he's scum lynch nao. You know how good my scumdar is..."

But I'm

never

scum...