Board Thread:Debate of The Week/@comment-28112409-20171114075305/@comment-32881402-20171114214054

Polypies73 wrote: TEAM LEAVE BM Being able to blackmail is not nearly enough use for a role, in fact it generally confirms someone as non-mafia(assuming there is no fake bm’ing), and only really is bad for ti’s. Being able to read whispers is a much-needed ability, and is not really that OP, it can be useful for finding more important townies, but in general townies don’t whisper that much. I don’t see any need to nerf the bm, just because spy was nerfed. Spy needed the nerf... It's bad for all Town actually. Fake BMing can be a viable strategy if scum can't seem to claim and BMer is confirmed. Its confirmability helps it in this instance, because it "confirms" a fellow Mafia who needs to claim. It's bad for all Town, really. It limits the amount of people who can claim in that day. Might confirm them as non-mafia, but they can't cc the Mafia who claims its slot. The blackmail ability is swingy, but it can steadily slow claiming down, giving Mafia more claimspace by just selecting the same person.

Uh, it's ridiculously overpowered. With whispering being so risky, Witch whispering to Mafia is a huge risk-reward situation. Mafia won't hang the Witch, but Town might think of it as suspicious.

On top of that, it prevents communication with the Witch and the infamously underpowered NK since they can't whisper.

The reason to revert isn't because of Spy, it's because reading whispers is OP.