Talk:Survivor/@comment-26507350-20150918025709

I understand that people hate survivors so much, but it's not really their fault. Imagine 3 town alive(2 TIs and a medium), and 3 mafia alive, plus you, the survivor. Who do you side with? If you choose town, then by continuing to vote with them you give them a win. Maintaining neutrality or voting with mafia grants them a win. the problem is what if the mafia kill you out of spite for lynching their fellow mafia? They know they can't win, and you made it this way, so why should you win? Out of fear of dying and thereby losing, survivors will side with mafia. Towns know this, and so as to avoid a situation like this where the survivor betrays them, towns tend to lynch survivors on sight. Survivors are also susp. as they can be cover claims for witches, WWs, and arsonists. As a result of this lynch on sight order, survivors are moved towards siding with mafia as town may have tried to, but failed to lynch them earlier. I have seen survivors vote against those that vote them on many occasions, but I have also seen them help the team that "deserves the win". Essentially they help a team that would otherwise lose because they lacked the upperhand(say becaus eplayers left), or because they had good players.

Survivors are unpredictable, but overall the policy of lynching them simply for being survivors makes them more likely to side with mafia, thereby enforcing this policy. It is a self feeding cycle that has existed for a long time, and I doubt it will stop, but atleast we can try to slow it down. Unless there is strong evidence against them, do not lynch survivors for being survivors.