We should consider deciding on a default lynch earlier (a person who we'll lynch if there is no hard evidence from today's kill.) Yesterday was a clusterfuck where we had an hour to make a lynch choice, which was made even worse by the fact that the death time was off, VERY relevantly changing the alibis of tsims, michikyo, anpere, jessk, and miles.
I think that a default lynch decision should be reached 2-3 hours before day end. Mafia benefit most from last minute lynches. Also, if the lynch target is actually an innocent child or gay knight, they have sufficient time to reveal as such (if this happens, that innocent child / gay knight should be the dictator for the lynch). I don't think it is particularly good practice for the new dictator to just decide to lynch the person who proposed them as a target, as this discourages people from posting / taking accountability for / proposing individual ideas. If anyone is about to die the evening of the lynch (dying desperado, dying gay knight, vampire about to innocence test), they should say so and declare themselves dictator at the START of the lynch discussion. People saying "I'm dying tonight!" after they have already been agreed upon as a target shouldn't be trusted.
As stated in the ABC thread, I don't like Josh's idea of going through the alphabet.
Previous games have tended to favor lynching inactives. Although I do think mafia are less likely to be inactive than townies, if inactives were NOT favored lynch targets, then it becomes very easy for mafia to fake inactivity. I have, as mafia, encouraged newer mafia (especially ones making kills) to look as inactive as possible without being completely inactive, and I've also seen it happen in other with worrying levels of effectiveness. So I think lynching the occasional inactive is reasonable, although we should definitely prefer to lynch based on people's suspicions. Also, aok, are evictions in game?
There's also the practice of lynching people who consistently have bad or no alibis. I think this is pretty reasonable as a strategy, although I do worry on a more OOG level that this is unfairly biased against people who live away from Live Action Mafia hubs (although it might balance out with the fact that they tend to not be in-person killed as much...)
Anyway, going to take a nap soon, but I want to get this discussion started. I currently have no non-trivial suspicions. My current inclination is to lynch a non-new player who has a yellow or worse level alibi for yesterday. I am also somewhat inclined against lynching people who are generally popular mafia targets (e.g. Dgrazian or Lily Chen), people who are elected (I know I'm majorly biased, but it is a major pain to fill out petitions...), and Lucy (she's never been killed by the opposing team, and so I feel mildly like we'd be fulfilling the prophecy and she'd have to be town
). I also have minor non-sketchy vibes from lzahray, sueshep, and cjfman. There is one other person I don't want to lynch, but I can't say why, so I won't say who they are for now.