ISOs in no particular order:
ILF: Still obvtown to me. Yeah, she seems a bit insecure, but that's getting better and wasn't alignment-indicative anyway as far as I'm concerned. How people can read ILF as scum and Josh as town is just a mystery to me, as he has all the same obvious markers of inexperience as well as, y'know,
actually doing antitown things
. (I'll come back to Josh later.) I might be missing something concerning ILF, but unless anyone manages to convince me otherwise, she's town to me.
GM: Seems to be tunneling a bit on ILF. I don't necessarily think that's scummy, though - I'm actually relieved to see her get personally involved in a discussion. Still null to me, but a bit more town-leaning than before.
N_M: I may have let this guy off a bit easy. He started by making a random vote without reading the thread and basically explained it with "lol, oops". After that he's been posting quite a bit of fluff, as well as what I still think of as rolefishing. I think I was just so happy to have a posting replacement for phok that I was blinded to his scumminess. Leans strongly scum for me.
M_G: Has posted quite a bit of good content since he replaced in. I strongly disagree with his case against ILF, but that doesn't mean he's scum. He's a bit of a strange case though - how much should I take his predecessors into account when reading him? I think I'll go with null for now.
IKD: His recent posts have made me reconsider my previous scum-leaning read. A lot of content, responsive to questions. Nullish.
Josh_B: Oh boy. One word to describe his playstyle: blatant. Yes, there is a difference between anti-town and scummy, but exactly where does that line go? Reading all Josh's posts I find him guilty of blatant sheeping, blatant self-contradiction, blatant rolefishing, buddying, assuming alignments, misrepresenting, horrible leaps of logic, IIoA and general theatrical distractions. The early VT claim and the mafioso NK is entirely consistent with this: blatant lying, blatant vengeance. Now, on a gut level his tone still seems town to me, but the question is: how much emphasis should we put on gut and tone? Shouldn't the actual semantic content of posts matter at least as much? I can't help but think Josh might be using the lack of earlier games to play the village idiot. He's certainly getting away with things no other player in this game would have gotten away with. I can't believe I'm saying this, but when I re-read Josh's posts in isolation and force myself to consider what he's actually doing with them, he seems pretty scummy to me.
