What is crypto-claiming and can someone find/give me an example for it?
I ~think~ it's the obscuring of your claim through any sort of code or hidden techniques; for example, if I were to say:
Don't think I'm scum
or I'll do mean things to your
cardiovascular sytem.
To think that I'm scum proves that I'm not
or that the person who thinks I'm scum is obviously scum themselves.
R.
Then anybody who knows to read the first letter of my lines would be able to tell I'm the doctor (although this is a pretty loose example, the real code can be as simple or complex as you want it to be, and can be used for anything, not just your claim, though the claim is most common). The advantage is that it passes on information to only a select
number of people (those who know or can decipher the code), thereby making it less likely to give useful information to people you don't want to know it; for example, if you suspect that all of the people who know or will be able to decipher the code are town, you can safely transfer the information to them without having to give scum the knowledge. I believe the general consensus is that most online Mafia games don't condone the use of this type of gaming, although it's really hard to police and, since nothing is "hidden" per se from the whole of the group (unless the key to the code is passed in secret), it is also not outright banned unless you're really, really obvious about it.
