In post 398, Prism wrote: In post 396, BATORU wrote:The general feel of the thread seemed to just start edging towards more people scumreading Mega Frozen. Fire Assassin outed a scumread on them, and then you voted following that, whilst citing a post that you had previously responded to with seeming polite gratitude as a reason. It didn't sit right with me. It felt like you were trying to find a reason to go with the flow and blend in.
Let's review the timeline here. In
#184 I take issue with a question that to me seemed pretty pointless, in the sense that it didn't help discern my alignment. Frozen immediately responds explaining that it's to see what bothers me.
In post
#190, I first pointed out the discrepancy between what I said and Frozen's description.
Additionally, I made it very clear that I only considered Frozen's response to 184 courteous
if true
.
Fire's FoS is given in
#217 and I follow it up with my vote in
#220 In post 220, Prism wrote:#185 is some pretty accusatory language putting something in my mouth, and while their stated reason behind the question is courteous, I'm not really sure I buy it. My impression of it was that it was a question for the sake of it.
The last part is what you're referring to as strange. Yet, I expressed skepticism of the purpose of the question
twice
before Fire's FoS or my vote, once by asking directly and once by implying I didn't necessarily believe it. The fact I'd cite not believing it, then, should not be a surprise. Additionally, I make it clear in the posts thereafter that the main reason I am voting for them is not the original question but about their description of my statements on Dunn/iron-and expound on that indepth in the subsequent posts, which I considered much worse.
Timeline shows I definitely wasn't just following Fire.
In post 396, BATORU wrote:It felt like you were trying to find a reason to go with the flow and blend in.
Following up on this section, what was your judgement of my point on Frozen's misinterpretation of my post (later plausibly explained by Frozen)? Did you not find it scummy prior to resolution? Why not?
With regards to the bolded, apparently you didn't make it clear enough in that post, or we wouldn't be here talking about it. It seemed to me that you were accepting that explanation from Frozen pending further postings.
My issue is that Fire's FoS and scumteam guess in 217 & 218 were followed by the vote on Frozen by you. It felt like you went back at that point, seeing Fire's FoS, to find a post to reconsider as a reason to get on the wagon as it looked like it might pick up.
In fact, I feel like you're either misinterpreting what I was saying originally or twisting it so you can avoid the real issue I have with it. It's not the last part of 220 I found the most suspicious, it was the first part of what you quoted. You had already responded to everything you wrote there, and seemingly accepted Frozen's answers to you, before you then went back and brought it up again
after
Fire outed a scumread on Frozen. Everything from there just looks like attempted post-vote justification to me.
I don't feel your vote was righteous in the moment of casting it. I do feel the timeline definitely shows your vote followed Fire's scumread. I'm not sure why you believe that what you posted shows the opposite, because to me it proves the point I was trying to make? Am I missing something here?
I need to go back and look over it again to refresh my memory as far as the second part, but I really hate this "Did you not find it scummy prior to resolution? Why not?" because it's putting words into my mouth before I've even answered the question. Making a note so I don't forget to do this when I finish catching up proper to answer your question.
~Ruko