The Mafia Discussion Thread

[Jimmy]

Yeah, I mean you could stop me from talking for a day - a warning, take away my ability. But killing me off was harsh, that was what I had a problem with.

[Pesci]

But that means everybody in the thread is allowed to edit at least one post, which kinda makes the rule redundant because nobody is stupid enough to edit two posts.

[Ruki]

Give a warning, and every other edit for everybody=death.

Pretty sure someone else did this.

[Jimmy]

Then there should've been a better punishment than a modkill.

[naiwf]

Exactly. As an example of why the rule is good, in West Wing I knew Sousa was a killer but I decided to sit on that info since I thought I was a bus driver and not a copycat. If I was allowed to edit a post I could have posted that at some point while people were in the thread, then edited it out giving them some info which they wouldn't have received otherwise. I know that your intentions were good, but I can see why it's a modkillable offense because it could easily break the game if you are too lenient.

[Pesci]

Sure, take away your ability. But what if you didn't have an ability? Kinda unfair on vanillas.

[Jimmy]

Silence them for a day.

I think it was obvious though, in this situation, I wasn't doing anything that could break or harm the game.

[Jimmy]

I could also understand if I edited a long while after I made the post, but the fact I made the edit so close to the time and did it before I saw Ruki's reply should show it wouldn't have effected the game. And then I re-posted what I already posted before the edit to try and make up for it.

[Guest Mr. Potato Head]

I could also understand if I edited a long while after I made the post, but the fact I made the edit so close to the time and did it before I saw Ruki's reply should show it wouldn't have effected the game. And then I re-posted what I already posted before the edit to try and make up for it.

For one, I believe there were three minutes (cue Rosey and Jamal) between the posting time and the editing time when I saw the post (2:18 and 2:21 maybe?).

For two, it's not like you're going to get back into the game no matter what now that you've been officially cleared as town.

[naiwf]

Silence them for a day.

I think it was obvious though, in this situation, I wasn't doing anything that could break or harm the game.

Weren't you the investigator though? I saw what you did and it wasn't anything terrible, but there's no way of knowing whether the person who is editing a post is fixing up some grammar, spelling or erasing something they didn't intend to say which could harm the game. I made a huge slip up in Lemmings mafia when I admitted that someone was a townie leading other townie lynches. Fortunately, I didn't get caught, but if we could erase mistakes like that or Norro's a/an or to hyphen or not to hyphen fakeclaims it would weaken the games IMO.

[-A-]

The time between posting and editing doesn't really make too much of a difference though. If anything, editing it quickly minimises the number of other people that can see and verify what was originally there. If you're scum and want to get rid of something then you want to do it as fast as possible so as few people as possible see it. I think the punishment is entirely in the hands of the mod and I can understand either position. It's really hard to legislate for when editing is more or less serious.

[MalaCloudy Black]

Aren't you supposed to be drunk? Posts need more typos and less sense. Also, less paragraphs.

[-A-]

I'm typing a lot more slowly and I think it actually makes me typo less. I'm not too drunk, just don't want to talk about srs bzns.

[Gongsun Zan]

I take the modkill position. There are far too many ways in which editing posts can be abused, and it's been in the rules long enough that you should know not to do it anyway.

[GoGo Yubari]

I'm sort of a case-by-case basis guy on editing posts. It depends on what the post is for me to really want it enforced or not.

[NobBe Nobbs]

Give a warning, and every other edit for everybody=death.

Pretty sure someone else did this.

Editing is against the rules anyway, so the warning is already there. If Split got a warning, what's to stop the next person to edit from being the one to cause this shitstorm? Really, it's pretty fucking simple to understand - edit your post and die. Split's just butthurt here because he was the bloody investigator.

[DMN in the House]

Rules are rules. Editing can cause too much shit, and you can never be really sure what was there originally, because the two people could be scum, or whatever. Sure, it sucks when it happens to you on an honest mistake, but shit happens.

I remember when the rules were looser, and I once edited and posted my role PM. That was an awesome play by me >_>

[Plubby]

You know, I can't even remember why no editing is allowed. Can someone remind me?

[Mr Evil Guy]

Because mafia players can go back and switch up their post. Plus it makes the bottom of your post ugly.

I used to edit all the time. Like a madman, actually.

[oldskool]

It's the same as outside-the-game conversations about the game, it just requires too much policing and grinds the game to a screeching halt as people meta-game about the edit/MSN convo's contents instead of actually playing the game.