Not reading your role PM

[ortolan]

LOL

not that I particularly agree that mafia isn't already a popularity contest

[ortolan]

Not reading your role PM is a sound anti-town strategy. As such, anyone doing it should be policy lynched so that it stops being a sound anti-town strategy.

And night starts are vastly superior to day starts anyways.

you don't know whether or not they are reading it unless they publicly announce such, and if everyone does that; they can just lie.

[ortolan]

My opinion on this issue is that while it may be a good tactic in an ideal world- to hide your own psychological tells; in reality, as Yos says, it's way easier to win townpoints if you already know what alignment everyone is (if you're scum), rather than faking being town. This is why in my completed games people usually find me way more scummy when I'm town than when I'm actually scum.