Talk:Town of Salem Rules/@comment-99.6.192.71-20160724045439/@comment-28781851-20160724050459

Metagaming is most common for the Jailor to do with his/her prisoners.

A simple definition of Metagaming is to ask for abilites, attributes, etc etc. Failing to do so while result in the Jailor killing you. If you are a town member, it would be easy because the role card is on screen for you to read. However for evil roles like the Mafioso or Serial Killer. They would have to lie about their role card. They would normally be too slow to type in it and would be executed. This is bad for noobs in classic because they would be normally be too slow to type and would die. This "strategy" is ineffective to experience player and is bad for slow typers. It's not reportable but it is "frowned down upon." I have had reports for using metagaming because people sometimes think that metagaming is "cheating."

I hope this helped.