The Syndicate

I'm glad there is discussion about this now because I've personally had too many games ruined by being outed or having people infodump. Even when it doesn't happen to me specifically I find it annoying and think it ruins games. As a civ, I'd rather catch baddies through careful reading of their posts (info has its place of course, it can be used very well by those who are capable of subtlety) and seeing a baddie outed takes away the fun of catching them and the suspense leading up to their role being revealed. Of course, if one speaks out about that in a game, it's assumed you're saying it because you're a teammate of the victim. I see it as outright cheating. It's no different to me than getting infinite lives or an OP weapon because you know you can't beat the upcoming boss fairly. I find it very disrespectful to all players.

It's also why I'm not around any more. I could make time to play, I just don't see the point when so many people use unfair tactics to win a game rather than actually play for fun. There's nothing I can really add here that hasn't already been said. I think a good punishment could be to strip offending players of all protections - including the ability to be protected by other roles. It's a fair point to say outers often get killed by their enemies, but if a protector is about they might defend that person so they live to infodump another day. Baddies know this and are often put off killing because of that, or because they don't want to legitimise the person's claims - I don't believe we can counteract that specific issue. I personally would go as far as to remove an info role's ability completely and turn them vanilla if they prove they shouldn't be trusted with such a role. Maybe I'm being harsh there but it would definitely stop them doing it again in that game and if it were common practice people would think twice about how important it was for them to put their info out so obviously.