The point of the game is to analyze the posts in this thread in order to figure out who is or isn't mafia. How can you do that if people are deliberating amongst themselves who Mafia is or isn't and that discussion isn't happening in this thread?

That was the whole point of me making a post about it in the first place. You can't exactly do that kind of thing in real life Mafia. And as far as I know, in online Mafia you're not supposed to do that either (according to the Mafia wiki Levian linked to in the beginning).

It's different if you come into this thread going, "well I just received a PM letting me know who Mafia is, so I'm going to vote for..." Because at least then, the group as a whole knows that this is what's going on. And that can lead to interesting questions like who is sending those PMs? Is the person sending the PM Mafia or Cop or a citizen trying to be funny? It has the potential to make it interesting or get the ball rolling on conversation and investigation.

The part that is unfun is when a person comes into the thread saying, "I'm going to vote for so-and-so because I have a feeling they're Mafia" when in fact they're voting that way because of a private message they got from someone else informing them that so-and-so was Mafia.

YOU SEE?

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All you need to say is that discussions relating to who is or isn't mafia should happen in THIS thread so that everyone who is playing can be a part of it. Especially if someone is accusing someone else of being Mafia. If they don't do it in this thread and instead private message a handful of people about it then how is that person supposed to defend themselves? Or if they do talk about it outside this thread, at least post the PMs the so that it's not just a handful of people ganging up together to make decisions while everyone else doesn't know where any of this is coming from.
Honey, now it's great you want it fair I get that. BUT you have to think, if someone claims they are the cop and the person speculates someone. ANd they are right, they inform someone who then posts it. That person Then has their name in the open. If they really aren't the cop, the mafia will know it's one of their own but if it's not, they are telling whoever the truth, You just got rid of one of the civies main assets. The mafia will target them and bang dead.

I understand there should be reasons but you cant just toss someone under the bus like that. Well I can't
Oh wow. It's even worse if the cop is the one sending private messages to people saying I think so-and-so is a Mafia and not letting the rest of the town know. That just sucks in my opinion. It's the duty of the cop to inform the town of their suspicions, not just telling one or two people through private message.

Btw, sorry if I'm derailing the thread. I'll stop arguing this after this post!