agentcom wrote:I still can't explain MoB's actions. I obviously knew he was town, but he certainly gave us all enough rope to hang him by. I really think I would have acted the same way had I been a simple VT. Rodion, I'm still curious why you thought it was "obvious" that he was town.
I honestly didn't read much of the thread, but I saw MoB trying to "exploit" the PM system in order to give town an advantage. It was possible that he ended up suggesting a procedure that would hurt town, but that is the beauty of discussion: you'd have 7 other players (5 of which were town) to show him why a suggested procedure was bad and then they'd have time to think of new procedures.
For instance, I knew a way to get all relevant information to Zimmah in an 100% safe way (and it was inspired in something MoB suggested). I don't know if Edoc also had a safe method or if he just took the 95% bet (which is a pretty good bet, but not optimal strategy) but the point is that the system COULD be exploited to help town and someone should not be perceived as scummy for trying to test the boundaries until he could finally get something consistent going. On the contrary, if I had seen someone act like MoB I'd be strongly inclined to consider him town, simply because the only way MoB's actions could hurt town was if he had suggested a plan that was harmful to town AND none of the other 5 townies were capable of seeing the flaw in the plan, which is highly unlikely, especially in a closed setup where all roles/possibilities are known beforehand.