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Originally Posted by jcohen
the reverse is true with villagers when everyone berates someone if they kill a villager. it creates a horrible culture/dynamic where you basically get shunned if you step outside the box whatsoever - even though the wolves have influence over where those lines are drawn and you necessarily have to have some contrary opinions. and once you're wrong once it's impossible to try again. I think there were a lot of times near the end where I was basically exasperated and kept asking "ok so what's the list again of people who if I shot I'd be a horrible player" and then I'd just take people's word for it because it just wasn't worth fighting
so there should be significantly less group-think and punishment for non-consensus opinions. and we also shouldn't overuse the words "outed" and "lolcatted" because again, it just makes villagers feel stupid if their opinions aren't in line with consensus and then they just defer to the more vocal/influential villagers. when really as a villager you need to approach things with skepticism instead of accepting whatever consensus is
In a perfect world where all the villagers read the thread...sure.
In a world where some players just pop into the thread to take random dumbass shots at whoever they feel like...I think it's important to have some kind of consensus.
Nothing worse than an inattentive town vig shooting an unCC'd player or a mod-confirmed town...it also opens the doors for wolves to "accidentally" do the same thing.
It's kind of a trade off, consensus can be shaped by deep Wolves and gives them power...but it also takes power away from sketchier wolves and bad villagers.
