Elleran, I simply don't see how you could have made the mistake you made. It just doesn't track.
Let me explain.
In your first "real" post, you made this statement:
Elleran wrote:
I'm getting a town read from el simo. Your aggressive/intensive play seems either just experienced mafia or townie. Your willingness to bang heads against players you don't deem acting townie enough is radiating with townie-ness. However, I agree with Retro. Most of your intenseness is focused on Retro... Not enough to be considered tunneling, but close.
Then you made the post you regretted, which contained this statement:
Elleran wrote:
Your responses are getting more and more fiery. Why so serious?
You then voted on this, making it an attack. You then made this statement:
Elleran wrote:
I'm taking stances on things, just not as quickly and adamantly as you are. Also, my play style tends to be more passive than aggressive (a clear difference between your style and mine).
This was obviously NOT an attack on simo, and very clearly you defending yourself. Diddin responded to you using the following words:
diddin wrote:
Playing a serious game is far from a scumtell.
You attacked someone for being fiery and serious, and also defended yourself from someone saying you were too passive. How could you possibly have interpreted diddin's comment to refer to your defense from simo? You used the word "serious" when voting for Slaxx.
Elleran wrote:
I believed that he was referring to my reference to el simo and his intense style of playing. I thought he was accusing me of believing that "serious play = scum, thus el simo = serious = scum".
Or maybe he was accusing you of believing that serious play = scum, because your vote on Slaxx was because he was playing fiery and "serious". This really seems to go beyond simple misunderstanding.
Also, you sounded like you were using your regret for the last post as a means of defense for posting it. "Oh I was tired, I didn't really mean that". Sure a townie could regret drawing attention to himself that might distract from real scum hunting, but scum would regret it a lot more. Therefore you admitting that you regretted it reveals a mindset that more fits the scum mindset than a townie mindset.
The other parts of your defense are pretty lacking, too. Why did you unvote without attacking another player? There was plenty going on that you could have used to scum hunt and pressure. You did nothing.
You also did not explain at all how Slaxx's aggressive posting was scummy and simo's aggressive posting was town. You simply said they were different, and what was a town tell in one player was a scum tell in the other player. This is a pretty massive double standard here.