While I understand where you're coming from on your Seraphim case.
These are things I noticed yesterday as they happened and did not comment on because I simply didn't feel they were relevant.
There are going to be scum players who act certain ways about scumbuddies.
But there are also going to be town players showing a very similar profile.
I'd know, I quite literally wrote the book (well, article) on how it's done effectively. Your profile is
close
to accurate. Close, but not quite. I simply don't think Seraphim would make the move he did as scum, and there's a simple reason why: strength in the push.
Rather, lack of it.
If he were scum and had a choice between "SirCakez or McMenno", and he decided to choose McMenno...why'd he do so with such weakness? Why was it just a weak hop-on, with no push, no effort, just simply going onto him? That's not the scum way to go about counterwagoning when your scumbuddy's in danger. It sticks out like a sore thumb, and it is precisely
because
it sticks out like a sore thumb that I don't assign it a scum alignment,
especially
not from a player of Seraphim's generation.
It's true, Seraphim comes from an era of low-posting, of more "logical" play, of not bussing. But if you assign him any level of basic intelligence (which I do), then you're left with a player who would never make that move as scum precisely because of these reasons.
Seraphim's not an idiot. If he made the move, he made it fully knowing the consequences. In the modern meta, a player might be able to get away with doing it because people like me would wifom it into a town move...but Seraphim is a relic. He doesn't use the modern meta. So he comes from an era of play where nobody would be allowed to get away with that kind of crappy play.
In short: player profiling, knowing their basic background. If I knew nothing about Seraphim, I might assume he was scum as you do. But because I have an insight into how he'd think as scum, the only possibilities are he was being a moron (which I don't think was the case) or he wasn't acting as scum.
The reason this isn't conftown levels of play though, is because I recognize my profiling skills are imperfect, especially when I believe V said all topics have daychat (which would include the scum one), meaning his scumbuddies could have influenced him, plus, it was an objectively bad move overall.
tl;dr:
Town players are going to make scummy moves like that just as much as scum players do. The idea behind him being scum is valid, but off of what I know of Seraphim, I find it far more likely he's the former rather than the latter.
