Well poop, I forgot to check the site yesterday and missed the start of the game. I've finished reading all the things I missed, so I'll go over all that stuff now.
First off, the RQs. I actually like all the questions this time, since they're all pretty much subjective, and don't really affect any views on alignment. I won't answer #3 explicitly, since I'll go into that in more detail below the other 3.
1. What is your timezone?
EDT. It is currently 7:48 at the time of posting this.
2. If you have played as both alignments, what would you say is the main difference between them?
It's pretty much fundamental that Town is trying to push information, while the Mafia is leading away from it, but I feel that a big point that a lot of people miss is that sometimes people in the Mafia will do very well pushing information with the Town. If there are few TPRs in a game, and the Mafia can push information like Town can, then they can easily blend in with the rest of the Town, potentially forcing multiple mislynches throughout the game.
All in all, pushing information is almost mandatory as Town, and is only a tool for the Mafia.
4. What do you think is the split?
With 12 players, I'd presume either 8-3-1 (T-M-N) or 8-4. It's tough to tell this early on, though.
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Now, onto the other stuff posted in the thread.
The feel of toad's statement about it being Summer, and that activity should be higher, seems kind of off. Not because of the fact that it isn't yet Summer for everybody yet, but because it felt more like he was trying to call people out for inactivity very indirectly, rather than just saying outright that people need to post more. Tensu doubling down on it makes it feel especially sketchy, for the same reasons, along with the fact that Tensu is not using his own thoughts to contribute discussion.
Dolby's vote on me seems rational enough, though I do believe there were better targets in terms of voting for an inactive. He stated himself in an earlier post that I don't normally come online here very often (I'm here solely for Mafia, actually
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), and with other people that are generally more active around the forums as a whole, someone else could have more legitimately taken the vote. I'm not holding it against him though, since it's a completely fair vote based on the circumstances.
That should be everything that I missed. I don't see much merit in the f11 situation, so I'm going to leave that be for now. I should be much more active and able to participate in the future.