In post 1792, sottyrulez wrote:
If I'm on the spot, I'd say town based on tone. That's not a strong read though.
If you think SAD's town because of his "tone", you really should read
Open 472.
As for our case against him ... it's not just based on an associative tell. Arthur certainly does make a lot of sense as scum with both TGAH and absta based on their posts, but his posts are also suspicious in their own right.
* There's his reaction to absta's NK, for a start, in
1013. Why does town get
angrier
about somebody being useless when they learn that person
wasn't trying to be helpful anyway
? That doesn't make sense. This reads much more like the reaction of angry scum who is irritated that his buddy played badly and got himself killed.
* There's also his attempt to shift attention away from absta, in
309,
497. Not because absta seemed town to him, but because of "the small hope that Absta will contribute something". In fact, despite suggesting as early as
321 that absta might have been faking how overwhelmed he was "just as an excuse to lurk", SAD never did anything to follow up on any suspicions of absta. This isn't what I'd expect from Arthur if he were town.
* The somewhat gloating tone of posts like
268,
1159 is also something we think is much more likely to come from scum!Arthur than town!Arthur. Agree with Tammy's take on this.
* Arthur has thrown out lots of ideas or reads that we just don't feel fit with his earlier posts (for instance, there's the fact he claims in
445 to have had a town-read on Vifam based on posts Vifam made
before
268, in which Arthur insisted that town-reads on Vifam were "hilariously naive") or that we simply don't believe Arthur can think are true (see, for instance, his claim in
1072 that Dan replacing out the way he did is "MoS-scum from ADWD all over again" -- Arthur has played in games, and recently, in which people argued with Tammy and replaced out, as town. His attempts to suggest the act of angrily replacing out is inherently suspicious are disingenuous.)
* In fact, his choice of targets reeks of opportunism. He throws out unexplained reads, and talks about people being town or scum, but he's more than happy to drop those reads for no reason if he can be part of an easy lynch. (See, for instance, his weak town read on Kise in
1079,
1231, followed by his more recent vote. He's not given any reason to stop town-reading Kise, he hasn't even noted that he's ignoring his earlier read. But Kise looked like an easy lynch, and that seems to be all Arthur cares about.)
~ Pless
