oh I parsed your sentence as “we need more of this kind of person to be on this website”
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technically i play mafia not on this website. if you count the tos2 champs as anything but an affront on god
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personally i think this website needs Sensei Scumreader
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i have told people in real life about forum mafia
you should do that
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just don’t use the specialized words! don’t tell them what OMGUS is, just say something like “being sus of people who are sus of you”
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True
honestly is omgus even needed in a 5-7 minute explanation of forum mafia
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outside of vaguely saying “don’t do this”
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its probably easier to just talk about the theory behind the mechanics rather than the social aspect
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hey, it could be worse, at least I didn’t find my way to Quizbowlcord by following a link from LW
(this is a Merryweather callout (the friendly kind not the mean kind, I like Merryweather))
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the like, machine of forum mafia is much easier to convey than the messy People Part
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aiui you are basically only one step removed from this
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that one step is important
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Ye fair
carefully making sure to specify the exact amount of “involved in weird-nerd subcultures” that I am so that no one thinks that I am a slightly different kind of weird nerd
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i’m a nerd but not a lesswrong nerd. arjun was spitting when he said we shouldn’t update our beliefs thoufh
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I am also not a Lesswrong nerd! also Arjun was mostly wrong about how we shouldn’t update our beliefs
doggirls win again
2-0
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so curious about what Eliza is thinking right now 
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she’s probably not updating her beliefs about us. i would hope
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