If the phrase "to no longer lock-clearing people specifically based on meta" was not intended to refer to that discussion, then my apologies. I couldn't think of what else you could have been referring to there. I realize you made another point, but that one was still in there and was how I read it. Again, my apologies if you were talking about something else.
Like I said, I do think anonymous games would be fun. I don't think there's any practical way to keep people from using meta analysis as part of the game in regular games, though each player is free to not use it in their own analysis if they wish.
An example of lock clearing based on meta was the so-called "dick wolf" game where someone claimed 2 people were mechanically clear because they would never allow Shorty to be killed N1 after just modding. I am trying to give examples of meta use and clearing outside the Forbidden Discussion in an attempt to be more fruitful about the topic of meta and degrees of freedom in play/deception.
You are not wrong that the topic of bussing does fall into the umbrella of what I am saying here, so I don't think your point is in bad faith, and I want to be honest that that is one issue for me, but I also want to be clear that I am also not arguing in bad faith either, and I truly mean there are other points where I am seeing clears based on meta, that I think I would like to see more degrees of freedom in the cases people can make on another player, and meta not be used for gamesolving in these other ways I am referring to. That I am actually trying to advance the discussion and topic to other issues that I see. This is about more than bussing in my view.
I think it just might be healthy not to rely on that sort of thing as much in analysis, I don't mean healthy as in, it makes it easier to clear villagers as villagers, I don't necessarily consider that site health if we think things are getting very village sided or too easy to solve. I mean, full affiliation seers and mass claims also make it easier to identify true villagers, and I think many of us agree that is not necessarily our preferred path to victory, that as a village we don't like how village sided that is. I will explain what I think might be "health" below.
I gave an example of which I was guilty as well, saying this game that AM is often town read even when wolf and hard to route out of town core.
The other example is like, when MJ comes to thread and it's said "oh he's so sketchy and a policy yeet."
Both of these examples, I feel, starts to establish a bias regarding those players within a single game, but not based on events of that game itself.
And especially when we have newer players who are not as familar with those players, we are perpetuating something by making these kinds of statements.
I see little harm in attempting to run a game that would seek to apply a pressure, to get us to exercise some different muscles, make different cases on each other and rely on different strategies, maybe some strategies that are more tied to the current thread and game. Just as an exercise. I would moderate such a game but sadly I am not sure I am in a position to do so. If someone else had a game design and could handle open/close (Fantasia time + baby being why it's hard for me) I could help moderate this other aspect.
