Quote Originally Posted by TinCow View Post
Watching voting patterns is important, but an arbitrary FOS on whoever is the third person to vote someone is not a "voting pattern." That's just the kind of random, baseless reasoning that it's easy for the mafia to hide behind. The whole reason 'bandwagoning' is bad is because it allows people to vote without explaining why they are voting. The more people have to explain their actions, the harder it is on the mafia. Encouraging the '3rd on the bandwagon rule' is just rubber-stamping a system that helps the mafia. 3rd on the bandwagon should be an acceptable reason for voting only on day 1, when most people tend to be joking anyway.
The first vote on someone can be seen as random or meatballing. The second "may" be more of the same. But the third is more likely to be a mafia trying to make sure someone else gets lynched that turn. True, the ones after could be mafia as well but there is a point where there seems to be more scrutiny on the later voters. So, some mafia try to be the guy in the middle. Not the first, and not the last. Also, in smaller games, people tend to be lynched with only 2 votes so the 3rd vote ends up looking really suspicious. Especially if there are multiple people up for the lynch who are tied for 2 votes each.

That's just the way I see it, sorry if I offended you.
You didn't offend me at all! I even risked being re-killed in order to get a clowny smiley out there. Now that GH is threatening to mutilate my corpse, I see I will have to find some other smiley to show that my post is good natured.

(I'll use the laughing one until GH declares that one off limits too.)