Board Thread:Debate of The Week/@comment-28112409-20171114075305/@comment-33307613-20171115155044

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The ability to blackmail a player is obviously very powerful when you explain it to someone. The has no idea that the player can't talk and they don't know if they have any important information. A partial exploit to blackmailing is the spam-voting. It reveals that the player is blackmailed (unless they are faking) and semi-confirms them as non- (if they aren't faking and if a or  didn't redirect the blackmail. Blackmailing is important for one reason, silencing any  members with information, namely the  and . A large majority of the time, however, a non- player is blackmailed, making the ability a little less useful. The whisper-hearing ability makes up for this lost power, permitting the  to hear any  members claiming a role to others, asking others for information, etc. This way, it asks as a partial, giving it a partial buff.

TLDR; Blackmailing doesn't always work to the 's advantage. Whispering allows the to gather information from, giving them the chance to silence any  revealing themselves via actual chat or whisper (or kill them with a /).