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**Raskolnikov** · 01-06-2025, 15:46

Originally Posted by EnderWiggin

If you're a good wolf, and can copy your town game near perfectly in terms of tone, how do you make yourself readable D1? If you can make yourself readable as town on D1, how do you stop yourself getting caught as wolf on D1 in games you're not town?

I am a huge huge proponent of "You can read anyone on D1". I used to spend a lot of D1 poking people and asking questions to follow their thought train.

But here's the thing. Good wolves are not going to be easy to catch with no info. Town can find each other, but in terms of "This is a post that is towny" I don't think posts that are integrally towny exist. People who I know well have absolutely called me town on D1 correctly. But it's less because I made a post that was specifically towny and more because of an interaction or a call or a read back and forth where we caught sight of how the other was reading the game and it made sense for the other person's town perspective.

Any post that inherently can help you find me town or is readable as town on D1 is replicable as wolf to fool people who think a single post or type of post makes them town.

I'd throw the question back to you:
How do town make themselves readable on D1 without doing things they can copy as wolf? What's your formula for doing so?

So let me re-phrase my response:
I am potentially readable on D1. But the moment I can point out a post to you and tell you why you should town read it is the moment I can copy that exact thing as wolf. Therefore I don't want to play into that game of "trust me bro". Because it's dumb.

This is the same route of thinking that I don't like self-defense arguments. I like talking people I sus through things, but I prefer to talk to them about OTHER slots because talking about themselves devolves into "trust me bro".

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I'm getting lost here. Simple maths:
Everyone can be read on D1. But "making themselves more readable" intentionally can always be faked as wolf if the player is good enough, and the moment a player you're talking to can tell you why they should be townread or what posts you should townread them off it's something they can copy as wolf.

"Trust tells" are also something I hate and shouldn't exist because the whole point of the game is to try and forge information out of unsurety and the moment someone has a guarantee of alignment it mars the maths.

(Could I be more active and investigative? Sure. People would like that. I got townread a lot off that.

But I also did it as wolf and it was more effort as either alignment.)

Anyway. This is an old codger rant from someone who has been playing this silly internet game for near 2 decades.

I will make sure to make a glorious meme out of this post. Generations of future mafia players have just been blessed.

Thank you.