I always made WIFOM arguments though, plenty of them aren't that 50-50, but that's not your actual problem here, but the shouting is. Here is the thing, consider why I started shouting, how strange does it seem for one to start shouting when the opinion they think correct isn't being considered and no one bothers to actually explain why?Looking at this discussion, I feel that Celever has just kept on playing like he did on previous days (and pretty much how I've seen him play in other games), while LightWolf jumps from his rational posts on earlier days to shouting and WIFOM-arguments. Would you consider this slipping? I would.
I may have been to quick to rationalise this one, mostly because I assumed mafia playing well well! Or well it being how I'd play and ask my scum buddies to play, a great chance to chime into a village discussion where whoever wins the village loses, especially if they turn their attention to the other. Funnily though, you argue that mafia finds it useful the village is distracted, but at the same time you also said the village benefits from the lively argument, as far as I hoped it'd go I also think the discussion was beneficial to the town. Say you didn't think it was beneficial, or anyone else didn't think that, none of you took the time to jump between us, tell us the argument is pointless because of this this and that and make us mosey on. The assumption that the mafia would think it's a detriment to the village and the village would think it helps is too big of a difference in views for me to seem possible.Regarding the question of why mafia doesn't jump into the discussion: why would mafia want to jump in? Assuming both of you are villagers, that means that pretty much all discussion right now goes to townies, and not to the mafia. What do you want as scum? The village wasting its time. That's kind of how I see this discussion: it's going nowhere and only costs time, which could also be used to look at other players.
The true problem still is the big contradiction of the village, people love to suspect people whose LOGIC they disagree on, near the whole village disagreed with my Celever logic, yet they kept saying I was likely town, this is simply ridiculous but likely the main reason all of you kept a damned neutral stance! I still wish to hear everyone's explanation's as to why they'd believe such a thing under those circumstances.