Just before you switched your vote, I believe Madonna had 3 votes (including your own vote) and Beli had 3 votes; I may have counted wrong, double check to be sure. In my opinion, either lynch looked as likely to happen as the other, so I'm not sure why you would switch your vote from somebody who was 3rd(?) on your scum-read list to somebody you hadn't even scum-read but voted anyway because you agreed with what everybody else was saying. I understand what you're saying about the no-lynch, but we did have some time left it wasn't like it had to be done immediately. Why did you not try and pursue a Madonna lynch? What made you think a Beli lynch was more likely than a Madonna lynch?In post 823, theelkspeaks wrote:
Re: Beli and quickness to lynch: I previously had a fairly null read on Beli, but the cases presented for him seemed fairly sound to me, which pushed my null read into a scum read. My previous null-read was based on lack of content to judge by, which I then realized was a more scum leaning situation anyone, as active lurking benefits scum. And with as close as we were to deadline, I was trying to ensure we didn't have a no lynch, as I know that lynches are the only way for town to kill Mafia.
His comment about "knowing my butt was on the line" was scummy enough to push him over the edge for me, especially that close to deadline. If we were 3 or more days from deadline, I probably wouldn't have pushed his case so hard or voted him then, as my scumreads were still stronger elsewhere. N_M's inactivity/fluff/lack of content is sending off a persistent scumread for me as well, which is why I named him as another player I'd be willing to pursue since the other players reads of him seemed more wagon-conducive than Aquanim and Knell, who were stronger scumreads for me, as I didn't think there was time before deadline to present a case and form a wagon on either of them, but N_M had a wagon previously.
As for the sheeping, I'm new enough not to have a ton of confidence in my reads, and I admit I was heavily influenced by the cases presented.
Your point about 'I probably wouldn't have pushed his case so hard' is pretty irrelevant, because you hardly pushed at all, you simply changed your vote. This seems like you are trying to imply that you put significant effort into a Beli case in an attempt to get the lynch and look pro-town; which is pretty far from what actually happened.
What do you make of NM's defence of me against the majority? Is this also scum behaviour or are you just ignoring that part of his contribution so far?