I'm pretty sure the village is unable to outlynch the mafia kill rate by a good margin so they either need the mafia to double up on targets by mistake, crossfire, or the BG to be REALLY REALLY GOOD.
Smogon is incredibly power-role dependent, that's quite true, so it's possible the experienced players are too run-aground by the lack of any info role/power and the newbies' idling habits.
That's really what messed up our ability to lynch, was how many people idled and then gave defeatist attitudes that made them look scummy, stupid, or both. When players like Sam or myself scumhunt it's very difficult to discern if someone is ACTUALLY just playing really badly because they're inexperienced or if they're giving off a ton of obvious scumtells, in addition to the horrid lack of connections between users when someone either doesn't post or doesn't make contributions/interact with the game. Day One was a trainwreck because I seemed to be the only one who was strongly convinced HD was playing BAD without being bad due to his lack of partner scumtells and like, at what level do you begin second-guessing the suspicion he's scum due to that bandwagon play when even he himself seems to have given up and presents himself as scum? That gave acidphoenix WAY too much leeway when HD was a mislynch and Gale, the other bandwagoner, was modkilled and town. Acidphoenix was initially very similar to those three which is what I had been saying all along (and why Sam thought I was mafia.. next time listen to me you dummy) and when 1/3 then 2/3 came up town it made acidphoenix terribly uncertain of what he could be.
Hannahh was subbed for Walrein then UTO, right? Her stalling posts were SO terribly scummy to me but due to half the game being inactive it was so difficult to tell if she was stalling because she's not used to Smogon maf and thinks it's fine to make a bunch of worthless "big reads later!!" posts, actually was inactive/disinterested, or she was scum and uncertain how to act as village yet.
It's crap like that that made this game incompatible with Smogon meta. Too many inactives/idlers for the experienced players to be able to accurately pick one TRUE scum from the scummy masses. Day One should not have been a mislynch, unfortunately nobody was willing to pull the trigger on Celever for his terrible interactions with people because he always appears scummy.
Gale being modkilled while acid wasn't for doing also-sketch things was a questionable hosting decision. However Gale should have known better, he was warned once before then went on to continue breaking rules. There was no excuse for such poor play except his own slacking of reading the rules or understanding the site meta regarding night talking, editing etc. Those were two villagers down earlier than they should have been and made the rest of the game rather easy for the mafia due to the numbers.
jumpluff should never have been subbed in with me still alive. I had thought they weren't going to play when we first discussed the game and the shenanigans going on ("boy i hope sams town i dont wanna have a spat with mafiasam zzzz") since who WANTS to sub into a trainwreck NOC and then TDG subbed them in anyway figuring it wouldn't matter too much if they knew I was town I guess?? Maybe because I was consensus-town read?? Or just did it before reading the "yeti should be dead" condition.
Either way, that made me PROBABLY the cleanest person in the game because you can't sub someone in who knows one player is mafia unless you sub them onto the same team. Otherwise I'm a free lynch for pluff to go after. So I had to be town, or following DLE's lynch, Fire mafia with pluff. I think this was a big mistake by rssp in protecting pluff over me as pluff technically could have been subbed in for a mafian while knowing I was town, so there were more circumstances they (or Sam) could be mafia than me. I can see it justified by me moving at the time and being relatively inactive but I was one of the people who solidified the DLE lynch so I think that should have made me a priority since it was accurate. If I had survived I would have insta-lynched Celever because I was so bloody sure he was scum by that point. I mean, ultimately there were 3 core villagers to protect. It's possible rssp figured that since I was inactive, the mafia would leave me alone figuring I wouldn't contribute much the next day. Still, with circumstances equal, I think the person who has ONE remote possibility to be mafia (Fire with pluff, who could have been Fire with other or Ice, same for Sam) was probably a better target? Due to the clean aspect. rssp didn't seem to believe Celever was scum so perhaps he found my reads less valuable than pluff's. And I had tossed out suspicion regarding his predecessors, which nobody ever seemed to realize was ONLY if DLE was his partner. rssp knew he wasn't DLE's partner and the next day when acid said it was him, it should have helped clear rssp's name.
Anyway mistakes were made in this game and the expectations of older players versus the activity levels of new ones, and probably what they thought was a suitable amount of posting (which to us is scummy stalling and useless content), made scumhunting a much more muddled affair than it should have been.