This is gonna be the thread where we talk about stuff

It's kind of dumb as an actual game, I think. There is basically no strategy to it, you mostly have to just choose randomly or based on whatever whim strikes you.
But it makes for an amusing... activity? I guess.

I'm not really sure how you can come to that conclusion, honestly. I've got a whole lot of often-negative Opinions™ about mafia, but "there's no strategy" certainly isn't one of them.

I would guess, given what I know about you and your philosophy of games, that you're framing it as a mechanics problem ("aside from the cop/seer, there's no reason to vote for anyone in particular over anyone else" or a similar complaint); still, I'd argue that vote analysis and setup design/speculation and the like are information that can be used to that end.

I don't want to put words in your mouth, though, so if you'd care to expand?