Terminology

Sometimes it is much easier to refer to specific concepts or ideas in some form of slang/jargon. Some popular used jargon in Discord Mafia are those of the following.
Terminology 	Meaning
Rolecard 	A message that is privately sent to each player which describes their role, alignment and abilities. It is normally not allowed to post this message anywhere other than privately with the game host/s.
Hard Claiming 	Directly stating one's own role to one or more players in a game.
Soft Claiming 	Hinting one's role without explicity stating it. For instance, saying "there are alot of people that are more important than me" may imply that you are softclaiming citizen. Make sure you have a plan in mind before attempting this.
Counter Claim (CC)	Making a claim which directly contradicts someone else's. E.g Player A hardclaims Citizen, but Player B is a Lookout who saw them visiting, so they hardclaim and bring up their evidence.
Fake Claim 	Claiming a role which is not their own's. E.g When a mafia member is demanded to hardclaim, they almost always fakeclaim instead.
Scum/Scummy 	Scum is the name given to any role which doesn't win with town, and needs to be eliminated for town's win condition. Being scummy means adopting a behaviour which doesn't line up with the behaviour expected from a town member.
Confirmed 	Being 100% confirmed as a certain [role]/[alignment].
Majority 	Majority is a lynch rule. It determines that the day will immediately end whenever a player has received a vote from more than half the players currently alive.
Hammer 	This usually refers to the day ending in a majority lynch. A player being "hammered" therefor often means that this player received votes from more than half the players currently alive.
Plurality 	Plurality is a lynch rule. It determines that the player with the most votes once the time for that day phase runs out will be lynched.
No Lynch 	Instead of voting for a player, you may also "/vote No Lynch". Usually, when the most players, or the Majority of players vote for a no lynch, no player will be lynched. Be careful with using no-lynching, as it will often benefit the mafia, giving them a day where they are not in danger of being eliminated.
Reads/Reading 	The read you have on a player is the conclusion about their alignment and/or role through their posts or other factors. If player X posts things that look like their a mafia member, you have a scumread on them!
WIFOM 	WIFOM is the circular reasoning that results from trying to determine the choices of an opponent who acted with full knowledge that their behavior would be subject to scrutiny. For instance, if you think player Y wouldn't kill Z because Z townreads Y, but then realize that may well be a reason that Y would kill Z: to make people think Y isn't a mafia member, you've stumbled on WIFOM. Tread lightly.
Mislynch 	An incorrect lynch on a town member.
Tunnelling 	Solely focusing on a player and their posts, ignoring others. Often considered scummy.
Game Throwing 	Playing against your win condition with the intent of making your own faction lose. Extremely subjective term not to be taken lightly.
Slightly more uncommon terms:
* FoS - Finger of Suspicion. Putting the Finger of Suspicion onto a player means that one is calling that player scummy and saying that other players should keep an eye on that player. [Alt. Hand of Suspicion (HoS)]
*AtE - Appealing to Emotion.
* LyLo - Lynch or Lose. A stage in the game where town must lynch scum or they lose. See also: MyLo.
* MyLo - Mislynch and Lose. A stage in the game where if town mislynches (lynches town) and the Mafia make a kill town loses.
* PoE - Process of Elimination.
* OMGUS - "oh my god you suck". An acronym used to describe retaliatory actions such as votes. Ex: voting a player because they voted you citing the reason "because they are stupid".
* PbPA - Post by Post Analysis. Analyzing a player's posts in succession, typically associated with ISO.
* ISO - Isolation. Looking at a player's total posts in a game, in succession.
*NAI - Not alignment indicative. When someone does something but that thing could be done as any alignment/doesn't tell what alignment they belong to.
*AI - Alignment indicative.
*LAMIST - Look at me I'm so townie. Being LAMIST is generally seen as a suspicious thing. Note that there's two kinds: when someone keeps claiming they are town, and refers to themselves as confirmed town without reason it can fall under LAMIST. But also when someone is just posting stuff like summaries without purpose it could be LAMIST to get free towncred.
*Towncred - When someone does something townie, it could be said they gained towncred as they become more townread
*Defeatist - When someone acts like they are 100% getting lynched and has p much just given up, and 'has no hope in town anymore'. Could be a townie thing if genuine, but is generally seen as scummy thing.
*TR, TL, Null, SL and SR - Townread, townlean, null, scumlean and scumread. A townlean is a weaker townread, a scumlean is a weaker scumread. Null is when a player hasn't been active enough yet or you just believe they fall inbetween townlean and scumlean. Read Reads/Reading for more information.
*Pocket - A player pockets another player when they intentionally Townread (TR) or otherwise agree with or compliment that player with the aim to gain that players trust/get that player to Townread them back. Mostly but not always used by the Mafia in an attempt to gain favours/trust from other players.
*Thunderdome - When two players accuse each other, often in a way where the day will end in a lynch on one of the two players to resolve their, often overly vocal, argument.
*Frozen - When a player does not respond or talk because they do not know what to say/what to respond with or are waiting for mafia-buddies to help them out/be online with them first. Usually it is Mafia or evil players in general that would be frozen.
*CFD - When a group of voters suddenly change their vote onto a player that was not in contention to be lynched with very little time left in the day.
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