The Syndicate

one thing I have been working on is that if you care to put the effort into it (it's so much though ldasgjnhdks) dialoging with people about your reads, their reads, and your reads on eachother is very useful imo

1) it can help you get more information about the game so you can make better reads
2) you get more information out of other people so it's easier to read them, and especially important that I didn't consider before is that you have more things from people they can be held to account for. I used to not care to talk to people I thought were mafia that much because they're scum, I don't need to listen to them really. But it's good to make them put their thoughts in thread
3) it's probably the best way to get people to agree with you imo. You can make a wall post case, you can aggressively push your reads, etc, but I think dialoguing with people directly is much more effective than those things

One thing to note about the third point is I actually think it's less useful to make a case containing all your points, as either alignment. I will give what I find to be the most convincing reasons to read someone this way/that way, usually involving only a few posts/votes they made, but I still have a lot more to say.

IMO, when you draw out your explanation, and bring up points that are not needed to mention specifically in a case, you are much more convincing to people.
They will consider your few strong points more fully, without them being leveled by maybe having weaker points;
your primary position is harder to disagree with just based on some minor nitpicks;
you appear to be much more involved in the read, active, having considered a lot when you are in thread giving newer points to the read, etc

These are all very useful for either alignment and I think trying to do this better is one of the things I've improved at the most since starting mafia