Should "Lynch #" Names Be Allowed?

[Serahni]

I'm not sure how prevalent the "Lynch Seven/Six/etc" names are outside the Chaos modes, because that's the only one I play, but they're certainly the fan favourite of the casual players who have no intention of playing the game properly. The biggest issue with them is that these names are created before the person knows what kind of role they're going to have, or what team they're on. Same goes with the "Seven is mafia" names etc. Once the game starts, they might be great names to have if you're a neutral role or an evil role and your 'target' isn't on your team, but it derails the entire game more often than not and even if you don't try to push on them, someone else typically does.

So I don't know if this is feedback so much as a question about what other people think of the practice. Legitimate strategy or too close to potential gamethrowing since you can't know your role/team when you make your name?

[Flavorable]

If someone lynches/kills someone for their name or number and clearly state they do it for that reason alone, it's harassment.

i.e.:

Lynch 6 tries to lynch 6 repeatedly.

6 has been claiming escort, seems semi-proven by LO and Spy.

Lynch 6 (a townie) says: "I don't care if 6 is town, we're lynching 6"

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^ Harassment.

[FrenchyTheSphee]

If you are truly town or have a good evil claim, this is an advantage to you. Since the people voting guilty on you or voting you up are evil if you are town with a good claim like Lo perhaps.

Just ignore them most of the times they do more good than harm.

But if they are town and you are confirmed town and they still want to lynch you that is grounds for a gamethrowing report.

[TheFluffyWaffleV2]

In my opinion, investing someone because of their name shouldn't be harassment. So someone named Lynch 6 could be a Sheriff who interros 6, finds them sus, and then tells town to lynch them because they found them sus, not because they are 6. Obviously they will be like "Hey, I was right! 6 was evil!" but that can't be helped. Now, if they find them inno, and then want to push them as GF or Arso for no reason, that is harrasment.

[ICECLIMBERS]

I once called myself “2 is Mafia” got sheriff checked 2 and they were mafia and didn’t feel like I was harassing anybody.
It’s only a problem if they’re seriously pushing it over actually playing their wincon.

[CheezePie]

I use names like "six is mafia", "lynch seven", or "OneFourSixEleven" when I don't have any other ideas. I mostly joke about it D1, maybe D2 if nothing's happening.
Sometimes, I get interesting reactions. I might even be one of those numbers. (I almost nailed the mafia once, at random. Fun game.)
As the others have said, it's only harassment when Town kills someone because of that name and no other reason.

[Descender]

im glad i still have tos clout

[TheFluffyWaffleV2]

im glad i still have tos clout

what clout

[Descender]

im glad i still have tos clout

what clout

i am the lynch seven

[CheezePie]

im glad i still have tos clout

what clout

i am the lynch seven

i am the lynch six

[flairric66]

A lot of people want to do metagaming and RP stuff like this, and themes also have this problem.
Sometimes it's cool, but it goes too far when it's just mindless lynching because of some luck of the draw nonsense.

[dolphina]

tl;dr: its ok as long as u dont gt for it

[Serahni]

I completely agree that if it's a town role pushing a town role, (or a mafia pushing a mafia, or a vampire pushing a vampire for that matter), then it's a very clear case of gamethrowing. I am comfortable that it's generally seen as that, even though the games where people want to play like that are a frustrating waste of everyone's time and aren't even that fun to win if you're on one of the teams that is advantaged by the gamethrowing.

I am more coming from the perspective of the amount of distraction it can cause early game if, as suggested, people are bored and there's no real information floating around yet. It gives the evil roles something to banner around, and I have seen it happen that even if the person themselves doesn't push their name explicitly, the whole thing kicks off anyway because of the presence of the name.

Ultimately, I have no firm opinion of my own, but it doesn't seem to be anything that is likely to benefit Town often enough to be warranted.

(As to those claiming to be Lynch Seven, I promise you; there's an army now.)

[flairric66]

Lynch 6 (a townie) says: "I don't care if 6 is town, we're lynching 6"

Out of your examples I think this is the only one I actually agree with because it shows clear intent.