Mega Man Mafia [ENDGAME]

[Kylemii]

This is an even worse result than the Day 1 result.

You are so evil and villainous and it offends me that you survived day one.

Please move past this.

You are asking me to play the game in ignorance of all my intuition and instincts?

Just kill me. Dr Manhattan taking out Rorschach style.

Mac's final post, where he was taunting sloonei to kill him. The entirety of the game prior to his death mac's main interaction was with sloonei. Maybe sloonei felt the pressure and knew it'd be his best option to remove mac from the game asap?

I also find this post not town in any way.

I can only think of myself, so I assumed Mac was killed to make me look bad.

What gain does Town sloonei get from this? I see this as a mafia tactic to purposefully impose wifom. Town doesnt need to impose WIFOM. [VOTE: sloonei] aubergine

I actually get the opposite impression from this, mafia!sloonei killing mac after Mac goaded him into doing it and then also pointing out that he'd mentioned liking to murder town leaders as mafia, like sure it creates wifom but the wifom it creates only serves to make uncertain a point that didn't need to be made in the first place, like a serial arsonist using their credit card to purchase 40 fire extinguishers online just to prove to the fire police that they actually hate fire.

[Kylemii]

My reads, from towniest to scummiest


Kylemii - my top civ read which means he's bad

why x2

[Kylemii]

that's to say, if sloonei were mafia and decided to kill MacDougall I don't think that the primary reason behind doing so would be to change the public opinion of himself

[Kylemii]

speedchuck
Long Con
Infected_alien8_
K-Ness
Quin
Kylemii
Dom
sprityo
JackofHearts2005
nutella
novaselinenever
DFaraday
DrWilgy
Lunalee
Soneji
Turnip Head
Simon
Marmot
Bullzeye
Sloonei

White

Updated list for readability.

why is Simon orange?

[DharmaHelper]

speedchuck
Long Con
Infected_alien8_
K-Ness
Quin
Kylemii
Dom
sprityo
JackofHearts2005
nutella
novaselinenever
DFaraday
DrWilgy
Lunalee
Soneji
Turnip Head
Simon
Marmot
Bullzeye
Sloonei

White

Updated list for readability.

I cry

[Long Con]

Simon is town because the very first nightkill was his mother.

[Kylemii]

Simon is town because the very first nightkill was his mother.

valid point

[Kylemii]

wait no, eloh was lynched

[nutella]

No???

She was lynched wtf you guys

[nutella]

LC was that a trap or u trippin

[speedchuck]

townslip?

[Kylemii]

okay I'm caught up now, I would still appreciate a brief debriefing regarding the cases on lunatella and bullz

[Turnip Head]

Where's quin

[Kylemii]

who's quin?

[speedchuck]

WHY IS QUIN?

[Turnip Head]

Quin is why

[Turnip Head]

Speedchuck you are pinging me in all the right places so far. It's unsettling

[Turnip Head]

I will attempt to escape the tunnel

[Long Con]

Trippin', sorry.

[Kylemii]

i miss jay. he's down there looking at the thread not able to say anything cus he died. i wish he were alive and yelling my name for some reason and not dead.

[Kylemii]

is there historical precedence of sprityo being cool and chill and roleplaying dangan ronpa characters?

[Long Con]

I looked at Alien's ISO, and it's almost totally a focus on Sloonei with some, to me, stretchy reasons. Once you get past the plentiful small talk. I didn't really get a town feel from Alien, but he hasn't posted since Sunday now, so who knows?

[speedchuck]

I will attempt to escape the tunnel

We could just redecorate. Make it a tunnel of love.

[Kylemii]

I will attempt to escape the tunnel

We could just redecorate. Make it a tunnel of love.

did you mean: sex cave

[Kylemii]

wait!!!! that was it!!!! I was mafia in the sex cave game

[nutella]

Where's quin

who's quin?

WHY IS QUIN?

Lol nice reference

[nutella]

Trippin', sorry.

On a Wednesday?!

[Long Con]

Trippin', sorry.

On a Wednesday?!

Wacky Wednesdays... you don't have those down there?

[Sloonei]

I can’t jusge this impartially right now, so I need others to offer their input:
Mac’s primary activity on Day 1 was to smear me. He did other things and made lots of noise, but I don’t think it’s unfair to say that I was his #1 suspect.

Mac was subsequently nightkilled. My instinct was to look out for people who would then turn that kill against me. I expressed this early in the day.

sprityo, who hadn’t touched me all game, then comes along to declare me his top suspect because I had expressed my theory about potentially being framed by Mac’s death. I don’t think it was at all unreasonable for me to feel that way, and I’d have no reason not to share that opinion with the thread. sprityo, however, suggests that there’s “no reason” for me to share it if I’m town. I don’t buy that part especially.

What’s more, he hasn’t identified anything in Mac’s suspicion against me that he agrees with. I’d like to see him at least try to do that. But for now I get the sense of a baddie making a concerted effort to spin a case against an established suspect (me). I do not get the sense that sprit has carefully considered my position in any of my posts. Instead it feels to me like he just seized onto a suspicion that already existed and is using that as his authority to suspect me.

Can anyone else see that, or am I just being too defenice here?

Does he need to carefully consider all angles? His accusation is pretty clear and simple. Didn't you also say that Mac had no real reason to suspect you? How would Sprit agree with something that isn't really there? (If you didn't say this, then my mistake, but I seem to remember something like that, you complaining that Mac didn't really have a reason). You're setting up tasks to players who suspect you. Who do you believe is mafia?

Holy crap on a crap sandwich, how had I not noticed that?

Sloondawg trying to tear apart the case, taking full advantage of Mac's absence and unsupported intuition. Nobody can suspect him based on Mac, because mac died before substantiating. Killing Mac early would be super beneficial because of that, and clever as heckll. Now if we point to the Mac read, he can just ask "Why though?" Genius (If he did it).

Mac identified points which he found suspicious. He never articulated what his reasons were. I was hoping sprit would be able to pull up a few of them and offer his input as to why those things would be bad, seeing as he seems to have been using Mac's suspicion of me as a major point in his case.

I didn't kill Mac and I sure as hell didn't kill Jay. I would especially never do the latter. There's no fun in that. I would campaign hard behind the scenes to leave Jay in the game for an extra day or two, JUST SAYING.

[Sloonei]

One of the last things I did before I left was to declare Bullzeye a tentative town read. Now he leads the poll. Why?

Also I've grown increasingly wary of Luna as the day has gone on. My sprit read hasn't progressed as it is clouded by my own personal frustration. I need to cool off before I can assess him fairly.

I need to be up at 8 AM tomorrow so I really shouldn't linger here too long, but I'll probably end up building cases til 3 AM.

[Turnip Head]

One of the last things I did before I left was to declare Bullzeye a tentative town read. Now he leads the poll. Why?

Also I've grown increasingly wary of Luna as the day has gone on. My sprit read hasn't progressed as it is clouded by my own personal frustration. I need to cool off before I can assess him fairly.

I need to be up at 8 AM tomorrow so I really shouldn't linger here too long, but I'll probably end up building cases til 3 AM.

I don't like Bullz leading either.

[Sloonei]

I just spent a long time compiling a massive ISO of speedchuck for no other reason than that I've been unable to grasp his general position on things in this game. I'm putting it all in one big spoiler because this isn't actually something that anyone needs to read. I'm only posting it for the sake of having it as a reference, so that I can point back here later if anyone needs to know how my speedchuck read has developed. So unless you're super interested in reading Speedchuck Commentary by Sloonei, there's no need for you to sit through all of this. This isn't a "case", it's just me trying to generate a read on a player.

Spoiler: show

It was a nice quiet Day 0. Nothing happened.

[VOTE: JJJ] aubergine

An initial vote for Jay Man due to the innocuous "Day 0" comment. This vote alone does not offer anything conclusive one way or the other but I want to note it as part of the whole of his post history.

okay bye 4 real luv u all soooOOOOoooo muchz :-* :-*

good lord

ok imma throw you a bone buddy

[VOTE: speedchuck] aubergine

*puts a pillow under jay's head*

You always do this lately.

A gripe with nutella making a habit of voting him. I can't comment on this observation, but it exists.

Speed Man posts and early Day 1 case against sprit for being overly-affectionate. I never understood this if it was meant to be a real suspicion. If he was just trying to make things happen, then it's fine. Yo Chuck, what was the deal with this case?

Speedchuck and nutella are not w/w.

I think the reason people suspect Quin is because his "what are tha rules " posts were the most fake-sounding

He is one of a couple people to accuse Quin of faking his rules misunderstanding on Day 1. This entire line of discourse (that scum deliberately faked ignorance of the rules for some unknown reason) struck me as misguided in every corner. Partially because I've received some of that criticism myself. What is gained by a mafia member pretending not to know the rules? That's a rhetorical question, we don't need to talk about this nonsense. My point here is that I don't love this suspicion from speedchuck.

Sloonei probably is town. Even if he is pushing me to actually hunt.

I'll probably devote an hour later today to finding someone. Busy day as is. Doubt I'll stay on Sprit, though I'm still weirded out by his buddy-buddy shtick.

Undoubtedly the best post he's made all game on the strength of that first sentence alone. I don't know exactly how much huntin' he's been pushed to do, which is why I'm compiling this overlong and meandering post right now. I don't apologize.

Guess I'll go back and see why we lynched Eloh over Quin.

I can read this as a gloating scum who's trying to spin the Day 1 result against the people who were responsible for Eloh's lynch. I can also read it as a pouting townie who believed in his suspect and is frustrated they didn't get lynched.

A quick flurry of short reads. No comment yet, but I want to acknowledge them for future reference. I can still see either of the scenarios from my previous point in his Eloh and Quin takes.

I don't like it.

what's your concern about luna's reaction to the eloh flip?

It’s not the reaction alone that bothers me. It’s the whole thing. She was present but not active at end of day and all of her participation was geared toward quietly pushing the lynch of the inactive option.

For the record, the present but not active thing is NAI.

Partial defense of luna. This could just mean chuck doesn't want to sleep on the couch. It is difficult to do much with this, but I want to make note of it.

I don't get the same town quin as normal. Normally I feel like quin acts towny but gets suspected because his opinions are different from everyone else's. He's got the suspicion right now, got the different opinions, but I don't get a town-tone feel from him. Even if all other indicators point to it.

This is a small snippet from a much larger post from speedchuck. It's got a few interesting points in it, but this is the one that stands out to me. He came back after the Day 1 deadline denouncing the Eloh lynch and proclaiming Quin as the apparently clear and obvious better option. But this is his elaboration on the suspicion. It amounts to little more than a shrug in my eyes. "I don't get a town-tone feel". That's hardly definitive and entirely unsubstantive. I get that this is an early phase of the game, but if you're going to come in after a lynch instructing people on what they should have done, I expect a stronger case than this.
But then, I'd also expect scumchuck to have a ready-made case to throw down at us here. So I have to check my scum read here. I'll put it there lightly for the sake of taking a stance, but I'm not as committed to it as I was when I started responding to this particular post.

This is an even worse result than the Day 1 result.

You are so evil and villainous and it offends me that you survived day one.

Please move past this.

This reminds me of when Mac was all like "SPEEDCHUCK IS SCUM" for the entirety of a game. He was right, but I got him to "move past it" by showing him my love and support. This after getting him killed in the first phases and having him rezzed.

Anyway my point is that Mac has good instincts.

Appeals to Mac's history as an apparently valid reason to suspect me(?). Mac's instincts have been right before. They've also been wrong. He was right about me in Ancient Greece. He seems to have let that influence him too much here. I don't like this post because I don't like being suspected on things that aren't related to the game we're currently playing. This post discusses his Mac read more in depth. It seems like he is regarding Mac as a civilian from what I can tell, and he also hints at Mac being the victim of a hypothetical nightkill. By the time the sun came up, Mac had been nightkilled.

Highlights some pings from Bullzeye. I don't agree with them, but I don't object to this post's existence.

Offers an in depth explanation for his town read on alien. I appreciate this post and am inclined to agree with his points.

I don't like these kill choices. They're targeting potential town leaders.

Our kill controller is an unscrupulous and experienced syndicateer.

This is not a bad observation, though it does not narrow things down a whole bunch. I'd like to hear more on this subject from Chuck Man. I say that as if he or anyone else is bothering to read all of this.

Sloonei vs. Sprityo

Less go

Speedchuck is an instigator.

Sprit's case is that Sloonei is trying to control the narrative, as soon as Mac died. Nobody else had suggested, as of that point, that Mac's death implicated Sloonei. He was pre-emptive about it. That suggests forethought, though it doesn't necessitate it. It also paints a picture of a guy who is very aware of the WIFOM involved in Mac's death, and who understood the strategy from both sides.

Yes?

The language of this post does not suggest that I am a suspect and I don't think I'd object to any of it. But I am reading it with the knowledge that speedchuck suspects me, and as I understand this is a factor in his read. Why does all of this make me suspicious? If anything I'd say it's NAI. It's a reflection of my general approach to the game of mafia regardless of alignment. These are just some of the things I tend to be conscious of.

See? I'm at the bottom of his rainbow. Balderdash. Utter balderdash.

Kylemii

Updated list.

why am i dark green? I've done basically nothing of note since like the middle of day 2, and I haven't voted once

Cause you got a bunch of missed calls from Jay. Then he died. You’re a slightly lighter shade of green on my list. Bullzeye is maybe a lighter orange.

Nah, that's a silly reason.

I toneread town Kylemii vs scum Kylemii, referencing AssClass and GoC to contrast his gameplay. There wasn't a strong difference, but the tone with which Kylemii approached the game rung town for me.

Might should have been light green? It is just town tone for me.

Much like with Quin, chuck is referencing tone as the key factor in one of his reads. I have a general habit of not loving "tone reads" since they're the most easily faked "read" in the book. No content or real justification is needed if you can just say "I like his tone." Regrettably, I don't keep a log of all speedchuck's posts so I can't say whether or not he has a habit of tone reading people frequently.

[VOTE: Bullseye] aubergine

A vote for bullzeye out of the blue. He had those couple of pings mentioned earlier. This looks like a vote designed to shift the conversation. I mean that in a good way. He wants to talk about a suspect no one else is talking about.

There are a few small pings in here but nothing that really stands out. speedchuck is a crafty baddy, which works both for and against him here: it works for him in that a few of the points I can make against him don't actually seem like they are things which I would expect Speedchuck to do when he's bad. It works against him in that, well, speedchuck knows what he's doing when he's bad. The points about which I'm most unclear are his treatment of Day 1 sprityo and his reads on myself and Bullzeye. I expected there to be some sort of development somewhere in the thread around him, but all I found here was a reference to Dizzy and a reiteration of the three small pings from earlier. I'm also not sure why the points speedchuck raised against me RE: sprityo's case need to be viewed in a negative light, but I'm incapable of discussing that case without a personal bias and don't really want to drag it up again. But this is a sincere gap in my understanding of speedchuck's thinking, so perhaps I should ask for an explanation, pretending that I'm not also the subject of the conversation.

I did all of that and I'm still not confident in where I should place speedchuck on my imaginary rainbow list. For the sake of taking a stance, I'll put him as the faintest shade of orange because A) I'm spiteful and hurt, and B) I don't love those "tone reads". Slight mafia, but with a lot of room to move in either direction.

[Sloonei]

I'd also like to hear novaselinenever's perspective on yesterday's deadline. He popped up at just the right time to swat our votes away. Did you see anything from any particular players that stood out to you, nova?

What's u! Just popped up back again, i'm going to have to catch up and refresh on some stuff but I had you, Lunalee and Nutella stand out to me. Colin too but he dead lol.

In what ways did we each stand out?

[Sloonei]

I'm still voting for Luna and would like to see her talked about more. Here are the main points of my suspicion. I did not like her activity prior to the Day 1 deadline. She looked like textbook scum trying to let a townie be lynched.

I also keep coming back to this series of posts:

Spoiler: show

Maybe some arrogant townie said COLIN IS DEFINITELY SCUM and had a one-shot power to trade a day phase for a free kill, sort of like a lynch controller but without the facadarce of votes and wasted day-phase time.

I've been ruminating.

Dang, that last option seems far-fetched, but if that happened, whoever did it deserves to get lynched.

Even if they were right?

no, not if they were right. but we have no way of knowing.

I've already described it as "unnecessary" and "fluff" and I stand by those assessments, but I'm not sure why these strike me as so bad here. Not every post needs to be rigorously committed to solving the game. Maybe it's the suggestion that she had not considered (in the first post) that the hypothetical vigilante was right to shoot Colin. I don't know, but I'd like to hear if anyone else finds anything odd about these posts.

[Bullzeye]

Just checking in before work, love how I’m being set up for an easy bandwagon by a bunch of people who know nothing about me. I also don’t see how it’s okay to point out someone is online and reading the thread when their activity is set to hidden. I often check from my phone and hate posting from it so tend not to, and specifically chose to not show as online so that people couldn’t act like that means anything.

[sprityo]

Night night.

Traps

[Sloonei]

I can’t jusge this impartially right now, so I need others to offer their input:
Mac’s primary activity on Day 1 was to smear me. He did other things and made lots of noise, but I don’t think it’s unfair to say that I was his #1 suspect.

Mac was subsequently nightkilled. My instinct was to look out for people who would then turn that kill against me. I expressed this early in the day.

sprityo, who hadn’t touched me all game, then comes along to declare me his top suspect because I had expressed my theory about potentially being framed by Mac’s death. I don’t think it was at all unreasonable for me to feel that way, and I’d have no reason not to share that opinion with the thread. sprityo, however, suggests that there’s “no reason” for me to share it if I’m town. I don’t buy that part especially.

What’s more, he hasn’t identified anything in Mac’s suspicion against me that he agrees with. I’d like to see him at least try to do that. But for now I get the sense of a baddie making a concerted effort to spin a case against an established suspect (me). I do not get the sense that sprit has carefully considered my position in any of my posts. Instead it feels to me like he just seized onto a suspicion that already existed and is using that as his authority to suspect me.

Can anyone else see that, or am I just being too defenice here?

Does he need to carefully consider all angles? His accusation is pretty clear and simple. Didn't you also say that Mac had no real reason to suspect you? How would Sprit agree with something that isn't really there? (If you didn't say this, then my mistake, but I seem to remember something like that, you complaining that Mac didn't really have a reason). You're setting up tasks to players who suspect you. Who do you believe is mafia?

I want to respond to this post before I go as well, even though I already addressed speedchuck's followup to it.

I have a tendency when I'm being misread to insist that my accusers are simply not thinking along the lines they should be toward me. I don't like it when people suspect me and sometimes I have trouble believing it can really happen. In sprityo's case, I see him saying a whole bunch of things about what my scum motivation would be, but I don't see a regard for what my town motivations would be. That is what I meant when I said he hadn't considered my position; it seemed, at the time, like he was only looking at my posts through the lens of me being bad. I wanted him to also look through the lens of me being good.

Also, to clarify on my Mac stance again: I said his suspicion of me had no "clear point of origin", and I stand by that, because it seemed like he entered the thread with me as a suspect. I also suggested that he had no case, because never articulated anything specific. He just pointed at posts I made and said "This guy's bad." I stand by this because... that's exactly what he did. It doesn't mean I see his suspicion as invalid, it just means I grew extremely frustrated with it (the suspicion, not Mac as a person. I could never do that ) because there was nothing I could do about it, but because Mac is a vocal player with a strong personality and track record, the suspicion was able to spread with relative ease, and as a result I feel like I've been fighting against a case (Mac's) that doesn't really exist all game long. Other people have made cases, but the origin always seems to be Mac, who never made a case. I do not doubt that there could be baddies trying to seize on the suspicion against me, and that's also playing into my strong reaction against these cases.

I wanted to see if I could get sprit to reference "Mac's case" earlier just to see if he was really full of shit. He didn't bite.

I think Luna is bad and a part of me still wants to read sprit as bad, but I don't trust my judgment on him right now.

Have speedchuck and luna ever been bad together?

[Sloonei]

Just checking in before work, love how I’m being set up for an easy bandwagon by a bunch of people who know nothing about me. I also don’t see how it’s okay to point out someone is online and reading the thread when their activity is set to hidden. I often check from my phone and hate posting from it so tend not to, and specifically chose to not show as online so that people couldn’t act like that means anything.

I agree that you should not be lynched. Do you have any recommendations for who that honor should go to instead?

[Sloonei]

I predicted I'd be here til 3 AM, but it's only 2 and I'm heading to bed. I'm more responsible than I imagined. Talk about Luna and sprit, and also nutella and quin, who I haven't got around to looking at yet. My general vibe on nutella has been trending up as the day's gone on, but talking about new people can always be productive. Go team.

[sprityo]

KYLE


I make a pretty good Komaeda don’t I?

I’ll just make a danganronpa2 mafia and we’ll play it with socks. Start before quin’s setup gets to be played

[Bullzeye]

Just checking in before work, love how I’m being set up for an easy bandwagon by a bunch of people who know nothing about me. I also don’t see how it’s okay to point out someone is online and reading the thread when their activity is set to hidden. I often check from my phone and hate posting from it so tend not to, and specifically chose to not show as online so that people couldn’t act like that means anything.

I agree that you should not be lynched. Do you have any recommendations for who that honor should go to instead?

I have a few ideas but I’m literally just about to leave for work so don’t have time to go into anything.

[sprityo]

Sloonei keeps insisting I look at him through “the good guy lens.”

Which....I’m not seeing. I already said what it would be if you were town here and I don’t find that to be the case. I’m not gonna let this instance try to be swept under the rug like it isn’t important. I won’t let you play the pity card Sloonei. Sorry.

[sprityo]

Question: does Sloonei always go into hyper post mode when people suspect him? He did it with Mac day1 and now he’s doing it again.



I know I’ve been harping on Sloonei since the day started about but I should throw out some people I think are town so I’m not being counter productive.

[sprityo]

a buncha people with ~50 posts or less. slalad, bone apple teeth

Bullzeye - why are people voting this guy? out of his ISO, he hasnt said anything that looks suspicious in the slightest? He discusses the rules on day one and places suspicion on quin and jack. Hasn't been too active.
Infected_alien8_ - Im confident Alien is town. He hasnt posted since day 1, but combined with how the last time i played with him we were both mafia, he's playing different, just like Jay said. He articulated a couple reads too that I can see myself agreeing with, minus what he said about mac.
K-Ness - Nothing much to go off of, says a few people ping him. Just need more content to see how i feel about him.
Long Con - There's one post in particular that makes me lean LC as town. I dont fault him for voting eloh since i too was "mildly suspicious." Overall lean town.
Lunalee - I think Luna's Day1 content mostly felt disingenuous, I agree with LC's assessment of her. Can see w/w with sloonei based off their interactions.
novaselinenever - little content about quin. that's it. needs more content in general
Turnip Head - Not sure what to make of turnip head. reading in between the funnies gives me a person who could be bad, but also "it's just TH" so
Dyslexicon - flow of thought easy to read and understand. I agree with most every comment made. I want to discuss why they feels bullzeye is bad and luna is good.

these guys might as well not even be playing
DFaraday
Dom
DrWilgy
Soneji
Marmot
Simon

[sprityo]

[mention]Dyslexicon[/mention] Talk to me about Bullzeye and Luna because we have opposite reads rn

[Dyslexicon]

@Dyslexicon Talk to me about Bullzeye and Luna because we have opposite reads rn

Hi! I don't really have a conclusive read on Luna. Not on Bullz either for that matter. I'm going to catch up now.

[Dyslexicon]

Hot Take ™: At least two of the following are bad: Jack, Sloonei, Quin, Luna, Speed.

Can you write more words about all these people? Also, what's your thoughts on Bullz? More words!

[Dyslexicon]

Simon is town because the very first nightkill was his mother.

I don't know about you all, but Colin and Jimmeeey are my parents.

Simon is town because the very first nightkill was his mother.

valid point

Two town slips for the price of one?

Speedchuck you are pinging me in all the right places so far. It's unsettling

Can you talk more about this? I'm interested. It seems that you have some reads that goes against the grain. Are you committed to getting these players lynched? I don't see a lot of effort to convince others. I don't know your play style or anything, so this is more of an observation. I'm very much interested in hearing your thoughts about Speed and if your LC suspicion exist still.

Just checking in before work, love how I’m being set up for an easy bandwagon by a bunch of people who know nothing about me. I also don’t see how it’s okay to point out someone is online and reading the thread when their activity is set to hidden. I often check from my phone and hate posting from it so tend not to, and specifically chose to not show as online so that people couldn’t act like that means anything.

Does not knowing you invalidate the suspicion? I admit I know nothing about you or your play style, but you do come across as suspicious to me. But more than that, I really want more content from you. What do you think of the votes on you? What's your take on Spoons? Who do you want to get lynched? All of it. When you have the time.

[speedchuck]

Have speedchuck and luna ever been bad together?

Nope.

[speedchuck]

Just checking in before work, love how I’m being set up for an easy bandwagon by a bunch of people who know nothing about me. I also don’t see how it’s okay to point out someone is online and reading the thread when their activity is set to hidden. I often check from my phone and hate posting from it so tend not to, and specifically chose to not show as online so that people couldn’t act like that means anything.

That's fair, though I checked your profile for the 'last online' times.