Alright I read the chat.
Firstly, and I need to get this out of my system, I am disappointed, but not exactly surprised, to see several members of the scum team lied, or at minimum very deliberately misrepresented, the nature of the complaints. I'm addressing this part directly to
@Yoho and to
@Dr_Professor83. I would LOVE to be able to trust people. To be able to ask and get a fair and accurate assessment from people who know and be able to take that as trustworthy. But as this game proves, I can't do that, I have to spend hours of my weekend reading over 100 pages of scum chat drivel to verify for myself.
If I were to accept what I was told at face value, I would have had the impression that there complaints were just questions or tame reactions. What I read in fact were several instances where the host would be accused of trolling, or town siding, and even at one point, that the whole set up was designed to make fun of the people who rolled Mafia. The host was accused of several forms of impropriety and with the sole exception of Hayumi (thank you Hayumi), these things went largely unchallenged. I'm particularly disappointed with Prof because I felt like we had enough of a rapport where I could ask a question and I could expect an honest answer regardless of whether it was to the benefit of his particular team or not.
For future reference, I am checking, so if you ever want me to consider your opinion on these sorts of things, then you need to ensure that I can find it trustworthy.
There will be no strikes for Ekko *this time*. But this really is unacceptable. Fuji summed it up nicely when he said to Ekko that he felt he just liked to hear himself (Ekko) complain. And I can accept some mild complaints around that. But Ekko goes further. He implies or outright suggests that the host is working against his team or trying to rig their game to manufacture an outcome, and this just isn't acceptable. And it's by no means the first time he has done this. I want to allow some wiggle room on this because in the heat of the moment, when things are stressful, people can say things they don't mean and I don't want to punish that, it's excessive. But I also have to balance that with hosts feeling like they're welcome to host without fear of heavy backlash. And in low stress situations like this one, it just isn't acceptable.
I can't define this as an outright rule but I'm going to be looking at it in later games and there won't be any grace period or first warning or anything like that if I feel the complaint goes beyond what's within reason for the situation. And for the next time, if I ask what the situation was and you either can't answer with honesty or you don't want to because you feel obliged to backing your team up, just do us both a favour and don't bother answering at all. Because if I can't trust your opinion I will be paying it absolutely no attention anyway.
This has to be fixed. We've almost got our main host retiring over it and I've had just about enough.