chaoticjosh, confirmed Townie, pushed for an Alexhans lynch, based on metagaming reasons. His reason is summarized here in these two posts.
I just want people to consider this: if Alex is indeed a dopp or cultist, then he'll be the best one with his cool attitude, clear thinking, and impressive acting skill, and I'll wager that it's a better idea to kill him before he manages to weasel into a forming town base and destroys the town from the inside out. What I'm saying is that it's better to get rid of a possible major threat than a possible minor one. Even if I'm blatantly wrong, Alex can still lend his skill to the town through the Medium PM'ing him, if there is one.
Alex, you can believe I'm very earnest about a "policy" lynch. Your particular skill set lets you be mafia way better than it lets you be town. Preventing you from gaining the upper hand seems like a better idea than waiting until you do, then being forced to sift through whatever nightmare of preparatory excuses you have ready, and then reluctantly lynch you based on that.
Prevention > cure, is what I'm trying to say.
The argument against the lynch is also best summarized by Rysith. Alexhans defended himself, of course, but Rysith made the convicing argument against.
Josh: Skill at the game shouldn't be an excuse to preemptively kill someone. What if the medium is a dopp (since that can happen this game). What if Alex is an AWV or agent, or some similarly useful role that won't be nearly as useful if he's dead? Not that I'm accusing you or anything, I remember Alex's deception from last game. Just pointing out that preemptively killing skillful players isn't quite as good as it used to be, and so should be used more cautiously.
There was some discussion over if Alexhans can still assist the Town with the help of a Medium.
Mr.Person and chaoticjosh got in an argument over the idea of policy lynchings. chaoticjosh lost this argument.
Vote Rysith for pulling up BS to vote for Alexhans. You don't vote in mafia based on skill, never.
{later on...
Oh sorry, You're right, I meant to vote [coolor=red]chaoticjosh[/color]
You say that like it's common knowledge Mr.Person. Please, share with us, what is the basis behind NEVER voting for someone based on skill?
Alright, let's lynch all the experienced players. Let's start with you.
So wait, you're attacking me for attacking Alexhans, but not attacking Alexhans who's attacking ToonyMan for exactly the same reason? Does that not seem hypocritical of you?
Did the fact that ToonyMan is singled out for his potential unusual playstyle and non-experience just pass right over you?
It's like you refuse to acknowledge that my reasoning is semi-sound, provided that we're in a metaphorical evidence vacuum.
To be fair, I was kinda kidding with the last one.
Anyways, I think lynching Alexhans because he's experienced would be bad because we don't know anything about anybody else. We may wind up lynching him, we may not, but we haven't learned much if we all agree to lynch Alexhans.
Also, you think he's dangerous as scum? How? Mastermind? I could say that about a lot of people. Hard to detect? Read the vibes of everybody else, if they're all town, Alex is scum. You're making it sound like if we don't lynch him he'll kill us all when that's laughably not true.
Whatever, unvote. I'll atleast give Alex a chance. This little squabble, however, has reminded me, where's Webadict? I hope his interest in mafia isn't waning.
chaoticjosh cited Alexhans' accusation of ToonyMan, so let me look at that:
I'm gonna go ahead and vote Toonyman because he will probably try to hide behind his insane avatar and pass off as a crazy person to be allowed to act scummy.
Vote ToonyMan
Alexhans later claimed that he was just joking around with doing a random vote, but still believed lynching ToonyMan was a valid choice of action.
also... My vote for being crazy, while it was a random vote, is proving to be totally valid...
Alexhans kept his vote on ToonyMan until the end of the day. ToonyMan's one-liners don't reveal much, and stating, "WE'RE DOING GREAT SO FAR!" seems rather...ughish. I can see why Alexhans suspect him.
There might be some information in this argument on D1. We know chaoticjosh was town, so he was at least playing with a pro-town attitude. However, I'm not going to vote against Alexhans, because I don't see chaoticjosh's arguments as being valid. I do think that if chaoticjosh was alive, he would continue pushing for an Alexhans lynch though. To me, it would just be Town lynching Town.
As for JanusTwoFace, confirmed Doppelganger, this was his last post before the end of the day:
Dang, and I thought I had long posts. :-D
Alexhans vs chaoticjosh:
Mostly just going back and forth about play styles (joking vs serious). And chaoticjosh trying to get you lynched for being a strong player, etc.
It mostly dies down by about reply #55.
(Oh, and the random comment at the end of your post)
Voting near the deadline:
Because I haven't decided who to vote for. I've mostly (read completely) been convinced that a No Lynch probably won't help right now. I'm just waiting to figure out who to vote for.
Lynch one of "EchoP, R1ck, Twiggie, inaluct, Org, Archangel":
Ummm... I don't really have anything concrete on any of them. So, I would probably go with Org or Twiggie for having not posted yet.
Speaking of which, why are those two on your list, but not Cheetar? Did you *forget* to list a fellow dopp or cultist? (I don't think you'd make the mistake, but I'm going to point it out and add it to my list anyways.)
A post before that, though is interesting:
I'm also adding Cheetar, Org, and Twiggie for being the only ones who have not posted yet (by my count, could be wrong). And technically NUKE9.13, but he's in a coma, so I'll forgive him (for now).
Janus pointely decided not to vote for him, but he
added him to the list of inactive people, suggesting that he wanted to bus Org and get him killed off. Later on:
And no, Org hasn't posted (or been online for about 26 hours, so I guess that explains the not posting).
So after Janus pointed out that Org is lurking, he sought to excuse said lurking.
My belief is that Janus is subtly trying to protect Org, the Dopp, but has the desire to lynch some Townie/Cultist Lurkers in the process. There is a possiblity that Cheetar and Twigges are not Dopps, especially Twigges, but it's not a high possiblity. Alternatively, Janus was actually trying to protect EchoP, and did so by trying to offer up Org and Twigges as lynch targets.
I do support lynching lurkers. Org, the Doppelganger, was lurking, for instance, even if he was bussed by a fellow Doppelganger. ToonyMan listed some players he thought as being inactive on Day 1:
EchoP: Last Active: Today at 04:27:10 PM
R1ck: Last Active: Today at 04:45:03 PM
Twiggie: Last Active: July 20, 2009, 07:41:47 AM
inaluct: Last Active: Today at 03:48:54 PM
Org: Last Active: July 21, 2009, 12:08:42 PM
Archangel: Last Active: Today at 07:04:54 AM
I think going back to this list and choosing someone by random would work. SniHjen has choosen EchoP, but I want to just wait to make sure.
I'm going to need to review Day 1 again, but this is the information I have found right now.