Quick question for people who are better at this than me:
What's the deal with honest meta again? Is it considered OGI if someone has a meta that they stick to and is known by the community / tables a person plays with? (IE "I always and only say "town here" as town", or "I only pinky swear if I'm town").
I don't remember any of the past verdicts on this.
shows over guys, this is the officially endorsed opinion of ex-banned epicmafia user petricigy/orbneko/goku
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he doesn't flat out say "i'm town i'm using ate" etc every game but from what i've seen he seems to only ate/rage as town (esp with friends in game) unless given a specific reason (roshiez's game she linked) to ate as mafia (which i've only seen in that game tbh)
It's one thing to say "I know how ____ plays as mafia/town" (sometimes you can't escape a player's scum/towntells when they're the same in every game they play), it's another to actively claim the meta using AtE as the 'code' with a certain group of players and admitting ingame and postgame that this meta is the only reason you're winning the games (because it's 'proof' that you're town).
no *** thats unacceptable lmao. his whole reaosn he can win is to play with certain people and then ATE as town. why would that be acceptable at all??
its like saying its ok to cheat because your partner can lie. yeah they can lie but its still against the rules to cheat, so why should 100% meta garbage like this be ok? especially when youre carrying your run on it?
Question: is this a rule-breaker or someone who is just bad at playing mafia properly? This meta sucks, and if he can't win without it, he's no good at mafia and shouldn't be winning (or he wouldn't be using the meta like this in the first place).
I read like 2 pages and that's it, but honest meta is banned if
1. Is stated under profiles 2. Done over enough games where it is basically as if it were stated somewhere on the site (even though it only happened in the games).
General guideline: "I never do X" is unacceptable if abused. "I wouldn't do X" is what lies under the acceptable use of meta.
Honest meta that isn't abused (as in just a game here and there where it isn't easily verifiable) is not against the rules but it's still something that every good player should avoid
