Personally I think I would look at the stuff that tries to get it moved forward. In that way, all the "Present!" posts, the OOC announcements (RBIRL) and the discussion about other games would be discounted. You have five categories I think (but please add to it if you have a suggestion):
A - Questions
B - Answers to said questions
C - Accusation (incl Votes and Unvotes)
D - Discussion of Accusation (incl Defense)
E - General discussion of the game mechanics, theme, strategy, etc.
If I do that, I have the following list (Ordered alphabetically by name):
Artsapat (5 posts): 1 B, 3 E and 1 B+E
beetnemesis (2 NM): 1 B and 1 E ("Sorry not much to add" )
Dannymac (1 post, 1 NM): 1 C, 1 B
Fanatic-Templar (3 NM): 1 B, 1 D, 1 E
Fox and Ravens ( 8 posts and 1 NM): 2 B, 2 C (a Vote and an Unvote), 5 E
Hobo (3 posts and 2 NM): 2 B, 3 E
Isaac (11 posts and 2 NM): 1 A+B, 1 B, 3 D, 7 E, 1 E+B
Praziquantel (4 posts and 2 NM): 1 B, 5 E
ranagrande (2 posts and 1 NM): 1 B, 1 C (Vote immediately followed by Unvote),1 E+A+B
Sacrilicious Toast (2 posts): 1 D, 1 E
Taiga (2 posts and 2 NM): 1 B, 1 D, 2 E
Yunalesca (3 NM): 2 B and 1 E
With your counting (posts count double over NM), my top five list looks like this:
beetnemesis 2
(Dannymac 3)
Fanatic-Templar 3
Yunalesca 3
(Sacrilicious Toast 4)
ranagrande 5
Taiga 6
(Granted, it's the same list as Isaac's, but hey: different roads may lead to the same outcome and I've invested too much time in this already to discard this. )
With the bottom five:
Hobo 8
Praziquantel 10
Artsapat 10
Fox and Ravens 17
Isaac 24
Comparison of my Top-5 and Isaac's Top-5:
1 beetnemesis ----------- 1 beetnemesis
2 Fanatic-Templar ------- 2 Taiga
- Yunalesca ------------- 3 Yunalesca
4 ranagrande ------------ 4 ranagrande
5 Taiga ----------------- 5 Fanatic-Templar
The two odd men out here are FT, who is low on both lists, but is considerably lower on mine, and Taiga, who is higher on mine. Apparently most of the posts FT's made are not on-topic, while Taiga may not have posted that much, but he did try to keep the game moving.
Looking at the categories:
A - Questions asked: Isaac and ranagrande
B - Questions answered: all (not all answered ranagrande's question, but granted it was not a real question)
C - Accusations: Dannymac, Fox and Ravens, ranagrande.
D - Discussion of Accusation: FT, Isaac (3), Sacriligious Toast, Taiga,
E - General: all except Dannymac, some posted more than once: Artsapat (4), Fox and Ravens (5), Hobo (3), Isaac ( , Praziquantel (5).
Not really much to see here I think. Personally, all the Accusation so far have been random/ bogus/ a joke, so we might even discount that. This would lower the counts for Dannymac, Fox and Ravens and ranagrande. ranagrande would break even with FT and Yuna with 3 points.
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(Here's the list of topic names and how I classified them. Sorry if it's a bit difficult to read, I didn't go for clarity of presentation...)
Taiga: “apparently we got no fancy fantasy theme, but straight Mafia NM” General
Fox and Ravens: “I'm actually kinda glad. I think it was getting too...complicated for me.” General
Praziquantel: “Agreed, but I would imagine Bergioyn might have some twists in store for us.” General
ranagrande: “Vote: Hobo” Accusation (followed by an unvote in the same message)
Fox and Ravens “Vote: Sacrilicious Toast” Accusation
Sacrilicious Toast: “Re: Vote: Sacrilicious Toast” Discussion
Isaac “Re: Vote: Sacrilicious Toast” Discussion
Artsapat: “Re: Not too bad that you waited with the game, Berg”
Isaac: “Okay, getting moving (Table)” Questions
Fanatic-Templar “Yes, No, No. NM” Answers
Taiga “Yes, No, No.” Answers
Isaac “Re: Yes, No, No” General
Fanatic-Templar: “Yeah, my name's a real one too, just not logically related to anything in the game. NM” General
Hobo “Same here. NM” General
Fox and Ravens “Yes, No, No NM” Answers
Praziquantel “Yes, No, No NM” Answers
Dannymac “Yes, No, No NM” Answers
Taiga “would be nice if one player answered Yes, Yes. Yes now: Lie = lynch NM” General
Isaac “Well I'm reasonably sure some of them will either answer other then yes, no, no or lie” General
Artsapat “Yes. No. No.” Answers + General
Isaac “Re: Yes. No. No.” General
Yunalesca “Yes, No, No NM” Answers
Hobo “Yes, no, no. Also, I'm back. NM” Answers
beetnemesis “Yes, No No NM” Answers
beetnemesis “Sorry I didn't have anything new to add... NM” General
ranagrande “Yes, No, No. NM”
Fox and Ravens “I might as well Unvote before I forget” Accusation (unvote)
Dannymac “Vote: Isaac” Accusation
Isaac “Re: Vote: Isaac” General
Isaac “The "... and people die" part is probably accurate though NM” General
Fanatic-Templar “Correlation does not equal causation . NM” Discussion of Accusation
Isaac “Precisely NM” Discussion of Accusation
Fox and Ravens “Re: Vote: Isaac” General
Isaac “Re: Vote: Isaac” General
Artsapat “Although interesting, the questions don't seem to be adding much to the info” General
Praziquantel “Well” General
Artsapat “That is correct” General
Praziquantel “Oh yeah, you're right” General
Fox and Ravens “Re: Oh yeah, you're right” General
Praziquantel “Re: Oh yeah, you're right” General
Yunalesca “I posted I was back.... NLRBIRL NM” General
Praziquantel “Yeah, I missed that. Sorry NM” General
Fox and Ravens “Re: Although interesting, the questions don't seem to be adding much to the info” General
Hobo “Agreed. Random lynches seem like a last resort to me.” General
ranagrande “Now that you mention it, appearance might indeed be useful.” General + Question + Answers
Isaac “Re: Now that you mention it, appearance might indeed be useful.” Answers
Hobo “Re: Now that you mention it, appearance might indeed be useful.” Answers
Fox and Ravens “Re: Now that you mention it, appearance might indeed be useful.” Answers
Yunalesca “I didn't have anything either. NM” Answers
Artsapat “No, I'm sorry, I don't” Answers
Isaac “I think we may need to contemplate some semi-random options” General
Isaac “List of remarks by the 'accused', plus some remarks on them” General + Accusation
Taiga “explanation” Discussion of Accusation
Isaac “Re: explanation Isaac” Discussion of Accusation
Sacrilicious Toast “Re: explanation” General
Fox and Ravens “Re: explanation” General
Hobo “I'm just surprised I'm not on the list. I was always a low poster...” General