Deadline Lynching?

[the silent speaker]

I don't like cheap deadline lynches either, but having no provisions for deadlines is just asking for trouble, too. What I did for Simpsons Maf was require strong consensus among the active voters, so lurkers couldn't hamstring the town but small groups couldn't impose their wills on the majority either. (I used 80% of all votes cast, minimum three, but 75% might be better.)

If players aren't participating, they should be replaced.

Easy enough to say when you aren't the one who has to replace twenty of them.