Also, whatever is the result of this, I'll probably put it in the rules if nobody objects too strongly.
I'd object about as strongly as possible, but I assume you are talking about the sudgy rules thread, which doesn't impact me.
As most of you know, I'm (again) in the minority opinion on a fairly important tidbit for f.ds mafia. In fact:
Obviously up to the mods' discretion, but I think I will favor games that forbid QT quoting from now on.
Here's one of our most respected, and successful, mafia players specifically stating he will be less likely to play in ashersky-created games (and games by other mods who disagree, such as yuma). I think it's fairly clear that some other major players (silverspawn, Awaclus) agree to do the same.
This is basically the start of a schism in f.ds mafia, and to me it seems like a schism for such an insignificant thing. Part of this may be that some of you didn't play with the original crew here, but there were players who specifically tracked all sorts of things in separate Word documents to analyse and post at a later date.
Your proposed ruling would ban, just off the top of my head:
--tracking the voting records of yourself or other players anywhere outside of the game thread for posting at a later date, requiring that a player either do the tracking and analysis on the spot in the game thread (or lie and said they did).
--keeping track of what they see as scummy posts in a separate location with their thoughts as to why for posting later as part of a case
--any statistical analysis based on posting patterns based on time of day, etc.
I know for a fact that some players
used to do this when they played.
The fact of the matter is, by banning the use of another location/document/save file to keep track of anything related to the game is closing off creative space for both town and scum. It reduces the number of tools at anyone's disposal, and it shrinks design space for mods.
I find Awaclus an add proponent of this rule, given he's not the most talkative or active poster in any game anyway, and no one would expect him to have a QT. I do think the people raging against this tactic are the ones who already like to write a lot, and feel like they need to write more to stay on top.
I disagree. Refuse to post your QT, even if you have one. Get mislynched once for it and there's a track record. Berate town for their stupidity afterward. Or, as soon as one scum successfully replicates this (which is legitimately so incredibly easy to do), whoever out there is giving out too much town cred for the QT paste will stop.
And again, what's to stop the forced paraphrasing of QTs? "Teproc, paraphrase every single one of your QT posts or we will lynch you for being anti-town." That's just as "valid" as "Teproc, quote every single one of your QT posts or we will lynch you for being anti-town." In fact, I could promise to do that.
My next game, Walking Dead RMM, will have personal QTs. You know I won't implement this rule you are discussing -- should I stop working on it because it won't fill due to that? I've put in hours already, and still have hours to go. I don't want to waste that time if my lack of a rule means no one will play.