Why does everyone random vote at the start of a game?

[PolarBoy]

Back when someone tried to abolish random voting, I went and made an awesome wiki article about it. Unfortunately the wiki was moved shortly after, and the last back-up was before I made that article, so I haven't reconstructed it yet.

I still stand by my view that the wiki is a better way to preserve information about consensus or lasting controversy than bumping old discussion threads. I just don't have the time to go write all the articles I'd like to write.