The mods argue that I fake claim every single game and this makes the games unplayable and the fake claiming trolling. Here I post the actual game statistics on this topic for my rainyday account:

I had a 50% fake claiming rate as town, and if you exclude my fakes as the town clear, it drops to 30%.  I argue that this claiming rate is not excessive and not affecting games.

Faked claims as town (most of these are brief claims and then retractions when the real one outs)
1.  Cced cop and retracted when cop was uncc: 2times as blue+1 as doc
2.  Fake claimed pr in non cop set up as blue/pr: 5 times
3  fake claimed as clear/pr to reaction test (mostly sheriff):5

no fake claims as town:
blue-7
pr- 6

as mafia, I often cced and retracted to try to avoid lynches
fake trolling like claims: 1
normal mafia games: 14


game summaries:


https://epicmafia.com/game/6587202
died n1 as jan

https://epicmafia.com/game/6587210
cced oracle as jan

https://epicmafia.com/game/6587217
claimed role as drunk straight

https://epicmafia.com/game/6587227
claimed mimic day1 as blue and went into night claiming mimic to bait shot

https://epicmafia.com/game/6587233
no fake claims as blue. Acted blue

https://epicmafia.com/game/6587359
hooker, shot day1

https://epicmafia.com/game/6587366/review
vegged

https://epicmafia.com/game/6587377
blue, no fake claims

https://epicmafia.com/game/6588082
nilla, no fake claims

https://epicmafia.com/game/6588555
vegged

https://epicmafia.com/game/6588558
faked carol as nilla with dead caroler but retracted because I was cced and thought I would lose

https://epicmafia.com/game/6588565
blue; oracle and sheriff did not out. I claimed oracle  to try to die at  night when we were nling but told them to fun carol so we got carol. I retracted when sheriff and oracle outed. 6:58 I retracted when sheriff outed

https://epicmafia.com/game/6588575
outed fake carol as oracle to get reads

https://epicmafia.com/game/6588874
cced caroled as jan


https://epicmafia.com/game/6591806
the gunned died and I was gs. I claimed gs to try to die at night and get saved to get the ml back but failed

https://epicmafia.com/game/6592232
cced oracle as jan

https://epicmafia.com/game/6592273
vegged

https://epicmafia.com/game/6592284
jan, fake claimed sheriff and was going to claim oracle but sheriff never outed (blue was dead) so I retracted sheriff claim and we nled

https://epicmafia.com/game/6592310
sheriff, outed fake carol

https://epicmafia.com/game/6592325
I was caroled blue with dead sheriff so was serious

https://epicmafia.com/game/6593494
hooker. Cc caroler hard

https://epicmafia.com/game/6593539
cc cop day1 as blue to get cop uncc. I got 1 claim to retract. I then was claiming hooker and cat the rest of the day

https://epicmafia.com/game/6593644
blue. Oracle did not out. I claimed and retracted when he outed 8s later\]

https://epicmafia.com/game/6593981
blue, no fake claims

https://epicmafia.com/game/6594002
jan hipfired day1. No claims

https://epicmafia.com/game/6594216
vegged

https://epicmafia.com/game/6594224
no ccs. Was gs

https://epicmafia.com/game/6594419
vegged


https://epicmafia.com/game/6594436
no fake claims. Blue

https://epicmafia.com/game/6594447
sheriff; faked carol

https://epicmafia.com/game/6594452
blue cced and retracted cop to get cop uncced

https://epicmafia.com/game/6594460
blue; pretended to be oracle in set up without oracle

https://epicmafia.com/game/6594792
sheriff, pretended to be caroler at start for rxns

https://epicmafia.com/game/6594810
hooker. Had to cc oracle or was confirmed

https://epicmafia.com/game/6594836
nilla. Cced oracle

https://epicmafia.com/game/6594856
doc. Cced cop but retracted when uncced

https://epicmafia.com/game/6594882
cc sheriff, oracle, etc as blue and retracted

https://epicmafia.com/game/6594906
vegged


https://epicmafia.com/game/6595965
cop;regular claims

https://epicmafia.com/game/6595987
caroler died n1

https://epicmafia.com/game/6596015
cced oracle as nilla

https://epicmafia.com/game/6596050
blue no fake claims

https://epicmafia.com/game/6596091
caroler no fake claims

https://epicmafia.com/game/6596103
blue no fake claims

https://epicmafia.com/game/6598013
jan. faked oracle and retracted because I would be lynched

https://epicmafia.com/game/6598024
nilla. Cced caroler and retracted to try to escape

https://epicmafia.com/game/6598029
nilla cced oracle
https://epicmafia.com/game/6598039
oracle, regular claims


https://epicmafia.com/game/6598050
blue normal claims

https://epicmafia.com/game/6598077
vegged

https://epicmafia.com/game/6598083
normal claims as cop


bin summary,

While I do fake claim between 30-50% of my town game, this does not interfere with the games at all as I usually quickly retract when the pr claims. Additionally I strategically do this every time to get the prs to out when needed or to save them.  Fake claiming to protect prs, get people to out to lead the town when needed, and to reaction test is not trolling. It is a legitimate strategy to protect the town and allow us to win.

Over half of my town games had no fake claiming at all. The occasional time that I use it is strategically placed and I intentially do it in a way to not interrupt the game. Like I was running on all of my accounts here, so why would I fake claim as town to try to make the town lose when I am running myself and town….

this trolling violation is bs. Trolling requires me to antagonize players, which never happened. It requires me to disrupt the game, which did not happen according to the sheriff and the fact that we won it in 15min based on our scum hunting. Finally it requires me to try to play with the intent of getting negative reactions from other players. If you read this game, you can clearly see that my only intent was to save the clears and lead town to a win. The clears also confirmed that this is how I played.