The Godfather, Part 3 [Concluded]

[TinCow]

The first death writeup does not seem like GH's writing to me. Note the grammar and spelling errors (bolded):

Tratorix was driving home after the election results when he noticed a poster featuring a particularly attractive girl calling for change we can believe him.

...

After a while, though, Tratorix started getting bored and was going to get back into his car when he noticed another poster across the street also calling for change we can believe him, but featuring another attractive girl.

...

When he first reached the dusty poster, he couldn’t see anything. Only after brushing off all of the dust did he realize that it was actually a picture of some unknown masked man eating a baby, just like Tincown had accused shlin28 of.

...

As Tratorix lied on the ground, gasping for air and slowly bleeding to death, he heard a rustling noise. He wasn’t able to turn his head very fast on account of his knife wound, but he managed to see a dark figure running out of the alley.

The second write-up does not seem to make the same errors. They seem to be written by two separate people to me, probably one by each mafia killer, though the second one could be GH. Despite the grammar and spelling errors in the first write-up, it is well written well and employs interesting and diverse vocabulary. This seems to indicate that it's either a person for whom English is not a first language, or an experienced writer that was careless and didn't proofread.

Based on a quick perusal of the alive list, I'll go with the first person that strikes me as fitting one of those profiles:

Vote: 187Beefyz

[Tratorix]

The first death writeup does not seem like GH's writing to me. Note the grammar and spelling errors (bolded):



The second write-up does not seem to make the same errors. They seem to be written by two separate people to me, probably one by each mafia killer, though the second one could be GH. Despite the grammar and spelling errors in the first write-up, it is well written well and employs interesting and diverse vocabulary. This seems to indicate that it's either a person for whom English is not a first language, or an experienced writer that was careless and didn't proofread.

Based on a quick perusal of the alive list, I'll go with the first person that strikes me as fitting one of those profiles:

Vote: 187Beefyz

Doesn't GH usually do the write ups himself and just get suggestions for the kill methods?

[GeneralHankerchief]

In my Mafia series.

This is not my Mafia series.

[Tratorix]

In my Mafia series.

This is not my Mafia series.

Ah, touche.

[Thermal]

Change we can believe him is said twice, I doubt that is mere coincidence. The poster has a picture of a man eating a baby, showing this poster cannot be seen as factual, perhaps in this long twisted line of clues shows we cannot trust shlin28

vote: abstain
for now....

[Chaotix]

Bear in mind, Ares, that since the mafia are doing the write-ups, it is very likely that they are going to intentionally put false leads into them. I wouldn't take into account any mention of names other than those who were killed in the write-ups. There may be one strategy we can use, however: look for whom the write-ups avoided mentioning, later in the game.

As for a vote...

Vote: Andres

For starting off the round by voting with no evidence whatsoever, and thus paving the way for more nonsensical votes and bandwagons.

[TinCow]

Bear in mind, Ares, that since the mafia are doing the write-ups, it is very likely that they are going to intentionally put false leads into them. I wouldn't take into account any mention of names other than those who were killed in the write-ups. There may be one strategy we can use, however: look for whom the write-ups avoided mentioning, later in the game.

I would not put any faith into any of the actual content of the write-ups, as that is easily faked. However, disguising one's own writing style can be exceptionally difficult, even if it is intentionally done. I believe we'll find far more success in that than in any other analysis of the write-ups.

[Chaotix]

Yes, most of what is said in the write-ups is generally going to be useless. Even writing styles, however, can be faked. In this game in particular, a smart mafia is definitely going to try to change their writing style- probably a small change from American to British English, or vice-versa. It's going to be the small nuances of each dialect that are missed in the sudden change that will be our clues, I think.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

I would not put any faith into any of the actual content of the write-ups, as that is easily faked. However, disguising one's own writing style can be exceptionally difficult, even if it is intentionally done. I believe we'll find far more success in that than in any other analysis of the write-ups.

You've repeatedly said that you were worried about having to do your own write up if you were mafia in a game that required it because you would have to put work into disguising your style. Now you are voting based on a few grammar errors--

unvote:'khaan

Vote:TinCow

also, only post graduate types think ending a sentence with a preposition is bad grammar

[TinCow]

You've repeatedly said that you were worried about having to do your own write up if you were mafia in a game that required it because you would have to put work into disguising your style. Now you are voting based on a few grammar errors--

unvote:'khaan

Vote:TinCow

also, only post graduate types think ending a sentence with a preposition is bad grammar

I admit that I would work hard on covering up my writing style if I was forced to submit kill write-ups. However, there are limits to the felonies I would commit against the English language, and ending sentences with prepositions goes beyond the pale.

Have you no sense of decency, sir?

[Lord Winter]

I still find the whole Reenk bandwagon from last round incrediably suspicious. Its bringing back too many memories of GH's election in mafia I.

Vote: Seamus

Third on the bandwagon.

[TevashSzat]

I would not put any faith into any of the actual content of the write-ups, as that is easily faked.

QFT

All that will lead to is WIFOM.

Person 1: You weren't mentioned so you must be scum
Person 2: But if I were scum, I wouldn't be so careless
Person 1: But if you were scum, you would be leaving yourself the opportunity to say you weren't careless

And it can just go on and on.....

@Tincow

Your idea seems very promising. Does anyone here know who in the game speaks English as their first/primary language. I spose that may be useful later on

[seireikhaan]

Your idea seems very promising. Does anyone here know who in the game speaks English as their first/primary language. I spose that may be useful later on

Well, I do... But the last time I tried to analyze writeups on this sort of thing, the mafia won.

[Sigurd]

@taka:
Is that a positive result of an investigation?

I believe the write-ups are supposed to be written and posted unchanged (I wish that was true in Ephesus - It would have been sooo much more fun).

The texts seems to be written in a editor with spell check. Very few errors beside what TinCow has already put forward.
I noticed one little thing though. The second write-up had neighbors instead of neighbours suggesting it was written by an American. When pasting the text into a Norwegian editor, the dictionary changed to English(UK) though.
So... was the neighbor thing deliberate, or a slip up? American vs Eurpean?

vote: Ichigo

[glyphz]

Vote: 777Ares777
The 'random vote on the person who posted in front of me'

[glyphz]

Gah!
Unvote: 777Ares777
Vote: Chaotix27

Beaten by mere seconds

[Thermal]

Gah!
Unvote: 777Ares777
Vote: Chaotix27

Beaten by mere seconds

the post before this post in the 'vote for the person in front of me tactic' is yourself, so i think you should be doing a suicide vote Glyphz

[glyphz]

the post before this post in the 'vote for the person in front of me tactic' is yourself, so i think you should be doing a suicide vote Glyphz

Good point
I'll make it a point to do so the next time it happens

[naut]

Random vote:

Vote: Ignoramus

[Thermal]

Good point
I'll make it a point to do so the next time it happens

Don't worry, i'll compensate, you had bad reasoning for your vote anyway

unvote, vote: glyphz

[Askthepizzaguy]

From my last post:
02-04-2009, 12:54 Day time

24 hours later...

02-05-2009, 12:54 Night time?

02-06-2009, 12:54 Day time!
Plus 12 hours...

Ah. Night time.

That was my bad. I only had like an hour or two to go until night time when I left. Makes sense. I am marking down on a Wordpad when the next day phase is expected to start. My sincere apologies.