It appears that the distinction between scum-read and scum-lean would need to be addressed before going any further as the confusion, or lack of understanding why it matters is an issue here. I define a scum-read as being reasonably, but not completely, confident that they are scum whereas a scum-lean is not being entirely convinced one way or another but think that it's more possible than not. I believe this distinction is necessary in this specific circumstance because I believe them to be hiding behind the crowd to protect themselves from backlash.
Giving out scum-leans instead of scum-reads is an easy way for scum to be able to remove themselves from the liability on having to deal with the end-result of a town flip. It also is much easier to form a falsified town-read on somebody like they are claiming to be their prime aim for their reading than a falsified scum-read, meaning if somebody does not have a scum-read at a specific state in the game it is very likely from scum who is unable to grasp onto the current game-state enough to generate a fake read, as it is harder to fake a scum-read that is believable than it is to have one as a town. This is the middle of day 2 and the most they have is a slight scum-lean on two players, even if you were focusing on clearing town rather than find scum specifically, not having a single thing more than a scum-lean that they are not even confident enough to simply
vote
without hiding behind Mala's own reason when they said "I'll vote with Mala".
Before any of you say it's just the layout of their tier-list that makes me think it's a scum-lean, if you believe that to be the case you need to read the game. They posted a detailed list a post of theirs or two prior to the tier-list saying that they are
specifcially
null-scum. Nobody is lower than a null-scum to them, does this seriously not raise any concern at all to many of you?
