TammyHEH posted:

Dumb bad game 4 losers who stink

Mr. Humalong posted:

if you're reading this in 2025 quote me and list how many people on this page still play mafia

Sandwolf posted:

If you use a sample size of like 3 months I’d say, honestly, 30-35 people

death cob for cutie posted:

can we send mr. steak to the championships even though he's banned

Hal Insandenza posted:

One of my favorites too! I replaced in for Amnistar as a bounty hunter and killed two of my targets on the first two nights and tricked Tom Tucker into claiming his flavor and then immediately shot him to abscond with a win.

Hal Insandenza posted:

Oh if we are flavor claiming too I am Matt the weird sex-things accountant

Tom Tucker posted:

I don't see why flavor claims are important but I am Shawn.

Hal Insandenza posted:

##shoot Tom Tucker

ObamaAkbar. posted:

We don’t deserve you

Toalpaz posted:

Happy birthday Mr steak

Jump King posted:

I wonder how the last few years would look on this

death cob for cutie posted:

I thought B&R got started around the time Lowtax was revealed to be even shittier than previously known

EccoRaven posted:

If you all promise not to gamethrow on day 2 again I will host another mafia game sometime this season.

Pinterest Mom posted:

Leperflesh posted:

Hi folks. I have never really paid any attention to the Mafia community on TG, and when I became a moderator I knew Podima basically covered all of TGR and just left it all to him.

That was a mistake.

I'd like to help this community in any way I can. One thing that I think we might like to talk about is explicit safety rules in Mafia games, whether they're run in TGR or just recruited here and run offsite. I understand that the format requires players to not discuss the game outside of the strict structures of the game itself, to avoid leaking secrets that give away the central idea of Mafia. However, maybe it would be good to state clearly for everyone involved that inappropriate interactions can and should be exposed, either to the gamerunner or if that is not satisfactory, to mods? Any mod or any admin, anyone a player is comfortable with.

If that's not a good idea or seems unnecessary, OK, help me understand and let's figure something else out.

If you'd rather not clutter up this thread with this discussion, we can also talk in the general TG feedback thread that is running now.

Opopanax posted:

We're generally pretty good about self policing, and if anything too much moderation can be an issue in games (not as much now but I remember when people used to get probed for empty quotes and such). It's nice to have someone we can contact if need be but we're insular enough that we have a handle on things

Leperflesh posted:

My impression has been that the Mafia community is great and trouble-free and part of that is that I have literally never seen a report on a Mafia game, not even once.

I always thought there was some degree of RP though, maybe I need to like, lurk a Mafia game or two to get a better feel for what it is. Basically a party game where someone or someone's is secretly the werewolf, maybe someone's got a silver bullet, you have to avoid killing the innocents or the werewolves win, kinda thing right? But then you have to try and guess who is lying based on what they post, and they have to post things, and.... there's gotta be a detail or two I don't get or it'd just be a random guessing game. Anyway yeah I see y'all are recruiting for some new games perhaps I'll just watch one and see how it goes.

Pussy Quipped posted:

Taste PMed me to play mafia again so I will try my best





To lose.

Jose Valasquez posted:

I do think there is something to be said for having the IK be a part of the community but not a regular in games. Not because I think they would abuse their power, but because it can be intimidating to get aggressive with an "official"

Sandwolf posted:

people can change, Jose. I don't do the thing you don't like anymore because folks like you, Keane, and Cena showed me why it was harmful and rude

CubicalSucrose posted:

https://www.samafia.net/wiki/Main_Page

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The SA Mafia Wiki is maintained by Ecco and

Got it in 1. But also seems like a better separation of interests vs. Sand.

Shellception posted:

I am not sure we need an IK, like, the game literally does not generate reports, lol.

Pinterest Mom posted:

forums poster kingcobweb got a piece in Jacobin written about him

Leperflesh posted:

I got the impression the primary role of an IK for mafia would be opening and closing threads as part of the way the game works,

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and maybe renaming or moving threads too. No?

Mr. F! posted:

I think everyone should take a deep breath and then keep that breath inside and shut up

chaoslord posted:

You keep saying things like this is needless, and maybe you're right! But also, this recent explosion of activity was caused by an event that a lot of people didnt want to talk about because there was someone important in the community that shouldn't have been. Having an IK is probably unnecessary but multiple people seem to think it's a good idea given, well, all of this, so why fight it so much? I have seen I think two probations in-game, so it's almost a certainty the buttons will never be clicked.

Start from the premise multiple members of the community want an IK (and even if we didn't, the mods and admins seem to think it's worth exploring because of everything that's happened) and that it's basically harmless so we're going to do it. Who would you nominate? We have already ruled out Sandwolf, probably the most obvious choice, because, given everything else, it is probably a bad idea to have someone in that position here on the forums that is also in that position where they have direct control of one of the two mafia discords.

I think having someone who Cares About Mafia without necessarily being Super Active is fine. Ecco is active in one of the discords and is around the mafia community enough to understand the culture of the place without being in two games already and going "I am too busy in the games I am playing to go press the button the once in five year it is necessary to do so." The whole point is to have someone that is good to go to if an issue arises so having someone who knows the community but isn't always in games makes sense.

I'm fine if it's not Ecco. But if not Ecco, who? Like I say, I think most people would nominate Sandwolf, but again, this was all caused by concentration of power so we should probably avoid that.

chaoslord posted:

Yes please I’m going to have to turn off Avs at work again otherwise

Actually I’ll do it tonight if no one else will. Quote this post with your best suggestion for Mr F’s new avatar

chaoslord posted:

But mods and admins seem to think it’s a good idea

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and maybe I am misremembering but I thought there were multiple people itt who said they thought it was good, so I think probably better to defer to them IMO

My Second Re-Reg posted:

How so? Sure, you're familiar, we've actually played before - but am I beholden to sucking up to the opinions of a whole bunch of people who aren't active in the Mafia community? So what if there are people posting here who used to be into Mafia - they aren't now, and really shouldn't be attempting to steer a community they left a long time ago.

If there's an actual show of support from the active community to get an IK in place, then go with it. But right now it's mostly people who don't play Mafia anymore asking for an IK who almost never plays Mafia anymore.

It shows a genuine disconnect from the state of SA Mafia in tyool 2023. If everyone feels like we absolutely have to have an IK there's no reason it should be somebody who isn't as active as... frankly any number of other people who would make a great fit. wologar, Maerlyn, Shell, HCT, Cloaca, Obama, Sandwolf, Yami, gently caress it give the goddamn star to b-minus1 or something but make the choice relevant to the current community.

Sandwolf posted:

It’s also kinda messed up when we’ve been having community wide conversations about people being comfortable in this community, only to have the members of the community come in and attack someone because they basically don’t recognize them?

Sandwolf posted:

Can you earnestly tell me what I am supposed to do when people from this community come to tell me they are uncomfortable by something occurring here? Like I was just suggested as a point of contact for that, I came here publicly to talk about it, and it’s met with you folks hitting out at me for doing so.

chaoslord posted:

I think a public “hey the way this is going is making some people uncomfortable” is fine personally and then specific can go to PM if need be.

Opopanax posted:

True to form I'm not going to read 200 posts so I trust you guys worked it all out