Ethics: Codes

[Fuldu]

Encouraging such coding is not, in my opinion, good town play. As scum, I love it when pro-town roles do that. I have on several occasions succeeded in knocking off a doc who had encoded his role in a way that I noticed. If you make it easy to notice an encoding, then you're basically just arguing in favor of a mass claim in the early stages of the game. If you make it difficult to notice an encoding, then it's not nearly as difficult as you seem to think for scum to quickly and efficiently encode a large number of possible claims into early posts.

My general rule of thumb is that if I don't feel stupid for not having noticed a code indicator once it's pointed out, then I don't give much credence to it as proof of identity, because it's just as likely that there's another one I've missed. And at that point, there's really no value to including those encodings in the first place.