Insomniac - Your timing is impeccable. Not lurking, just getting caught up. Played golf this morning and this is the first time I've been able to read since confirming my role last night. 6 new pages, wow. Someone expressed concern that this would be longer than MIII, I suspect it will be very long indeed with 15 of us.
Voltgloss - Thanks for moderating this, with all you have going on.
Axxle - Thanks for the link to the two articles. I found the second article to be particularly important.
Couple of housekeeping things before I begin the substantive part of my post:
1) I am a newbie, having never played this game at all in any format.
2) I have created a temporary signature to define my abbreviations for people's names. If your name is not abbreviated in my signature, I will do my best to use it in its entirety. I did this because someone in an earlier post used the salutation "@G", and there are 4 names in this game that start with "G".
3) I'm not going to read MI or MII (with the exception of checking the two starting posts, to verify the absence of the players in my first question below), and I will likely abandon my reading of MIII, which is currently in Night 1.
4) My gender is male, if it helps anyone avoid awkward choices of pronoun.
5) I am on EDT in the US, if that is useful info for anyone in evaluating posting patterns. (God, I'm such a data whore).
Now, on to substance:
@Theo, Gloob, Green: You were not in MI or MII or MIII. Have you played Forum Mafia before? Have you played IRL?
After reading the second article that Axxle suggested, I am of the opinion that random voting on Day 1 is anti-town. Day 1 is indeed a time for to be as non random as possible. So, I'll be bold:
VOTE: O, because he will be voting randomly.
Pre-post addendum: OMG, while I'm wrestling with this, another full page? I started this literally one minute after #211.