Quote Originally Posted by reinoe View Post
Which reminds me. Sorry about "thanking" posts after death. It seemed like a good idea at the time.
You weren't spoiled so it's super okay. The only downside was that it was distracting and putting ideas in my head that didn't belong there. As soon as Sooh confirmed no one that was dead except the mafia were spoiled, I was able to move on with the game.

Still, I'd be way in favor of a no thanking posts during the game rule. I pushed for it at one point and people were like meh.

As we've seen on MU, dead chats tend to get spoiled as the game goes on, so when dead people are thanking posts, it can be read into, even involuntarily. Even if the post isn't alignment indicative, just thanking someone's post, gets people to think hey, he might be thanking a townie's post. Who is he gonna agree with the most? Probably the townie he's rooting for.

I'm glad it largely didn't impact the game. And even if people were spoiled, I'd consider the thanks to be innocent mistakes before suggesting it had a nefarious motive.

People don't realize that they might accidentally be giving stuff away. That idea is largely how I hunt wolves even, looking for the things that they don't realize give away their alignment or the alignment of others, but do it anyway.

It's a fairly effective way of reading the game. Not foolproof as we've seen, but... people often don't know what they're revealing when they do things. Spew happens.