Vote: Datadanne
I've decided that a policy lynch of Datadanne is the best way to approach day one. To try and answer any questions that will assuredly arise...
1) Why not use the information from day one to chose a lynch target? Isn't a slightly informed lynch superior to a completely uninformed one?
A) I don't believe so. Despite protestations from better players than I that they can beat the system and get a lynch record better than chance, I have seen no evidence of this in day one. In the six games I've played/am playing that are past day one and the nearly fifteen more that I've read for one reason or another, I have yet to see scum lynched on day one. Random chance should yield a correct lynch ratio of around 25%, vastly superior to the semi-informed ratio of 0% that I've found so far.
2) Why Datadanne?
A) Because I've read all three of his other games, in the two he's no longer active in he was lynched as doctor in both of them within the first two days. Do you see the posts he made in a row earlier? Those will likely be his best posts the entire game. So, besides the benefit of this lynch being "random" that is, not based on this game, and thus more likely to hit scum; if he is in fact a townie he won't actually help the town at all regarding analysis and thus there's no intellectual detriment to the town to lynching him.
3) So are you going to do if you've already decided you're not moving your vote?
A) I propose that we all begin poking and prodding and interrogating each other as we'd usually do. The point of this isn't to deprive the town of information, but to give that information the needed context it usually lacks on day one. We continue interrogating and poking and prodding until the game slows down or until a majority feels that we've squeezed all the useful information from the day. At which point an individual will cast a vote on Datadanne instead of whoever they would've likely voted instead.
4) You mentioned context in your third answer, what context will be provided?
A) Well, we'll have more information about the setup based off the reveal of Datadanne's death and any night kills that happen. Furthermore, since this is a theme game there likely will be a variety of roles with night actions that will resolve and that information should help corroborate or counter the information gleaned from day one.
I expect many questions, probably some flak, and an OMGUS from datadanne. But I'll try and explain anything else anyone sees fit to question.
