I probably shouldn't say anything because I'm the Mod, but 15377's definition of what a Threat means is spot on the money (of course, his assessment of who
is a Threat probably isn't, unless it is, who knows). All this talk of disambiguating mechanical Threats with a capital T from actual threats in terms of game impact is silly. Y'all think I would make someone a mechanical Threat just to slow Town down who wasn't also an actual threat in terms of game impact? That's too bastard even for me.
Threats are threats, yo. That's why the very public Town win condition says to get rid of them because they'll lose if they don't.
Though, the reverse... Make someone who isn't a mechanical Threat at all but has an overall threatening or negative impact... That I'd totally do.
Also, I'd probably be down with planting false info places like this very post to make you think people who aren't Threats are, and who are Threats aren't, just because y'all deserve to be more confused than you already are. Yeah, I said it. Don't blame me. It's probably all Tevish's fault somehow.
Carry on.