Yo. I'm not Para, but I have thoughts. You may or may not recognize me.
A few things.
Voting isn't to determine the MVP, as I'm sure you've been told plenty. Voting isn't even to determine who played the best. Voting is to determine who's the best player.
I look at your play. I look at Gorf's play. I ask myself, "In a random game of mafia, which of these approaches is more likely to produce good results?"
Gorf was playing like an open book in a way that basically guarantees him strong townreads in any half decent list. You were on track to get treated as a VI all game by your fifth post. Plenty a town won't even find you as town if you play like that, no matter how objectively towny you are.
Docking someone's play for being busy during one specific EoD is both an unfair assessment of that player's play and a sign of a flaw in your own play if you genuinely think it's reasonable to expect that.
Diplomatic play isn't just useful for persuasion. If the game's environment is more diplomatic, town is more likely to towntell. Diplomacy doesn't just help you push your reads. Diplomacy helps everyone else push their reads too. If the game's environment is diplomatic, people can more easily correct you when you're wrong, and vice versa, because it's easier to realize when someone else has a point. The fact that it's easier to tell what points are good or bad vastly mitigates the "but this helps wolves push reads too" risks of this strategy. These things are often even more important than accuracy.
I appreciate your attitude of keeping it about the game and your opinions without demanding justice or anything. You seem to come off as much saltier than you actually are.
Like, okay I am bordering on getting too caught up in this stuff again but honestly.
Strip down what you've said here.
You are seriously saying the best thing Gorf did was play in a way that would get him townread...in a game where he got mislynched day 4.
Like, that's all you've got? Your greatest supporting argument to suggest gorf played well relies on strongly implying the player list was worse than "half decent"
Step back and take a fair assessment of that point of view.