Reading Edd is tedious for me, which is why I tabled him instead of including him in my initial post. I think what bothers me most about him is the amount of time he spends telling, not showing, that he is town. For example, basically everything in
Post 644 is awful: for one thing, much of it is dedicated to Arthur's theorycrafting rather than scumhunting. Also in this post, he does his best to assert that his playstyle is evidence that he is town, and basically I feel like if he
were
town then he wouldn't have to spend so much time explaining to us why his approach is town. He also revisits the whole "multiball slip" again, carefully expressing that is fine for him to THINK that the game is in MB, but the way he "thinks" of it is different than the way Feysal "assumes" it.
On top of that, in both
Post 644 and in
Post 701, he goes into great detail about why his vote on Hyperion is a great way to create much-needed pressure, never mind the fact that Hyperion was gone by that point and a pressure vote is essentially meaningless. And yes, I know he was asked for Reasons by Plessy, but in explaining his pressure-theory he really just basically said he didn't have to have Reasons in a fancy way.
Combine his superfluous exposition with his reluctance to answer questions, the amount of dissonance between heads, and then posts like this one.
Edd/Arthur Post 644 wrote: *sigh* I knew at some point I’m going to have to come face to face with this, but seriously in all honestly, I really don’t know. I just can’t seem to get a read on them. I mean, I don’t oppose a lynch on them, but at the same time I don’t really support one. I seem to be better at evaluating the events surrounding Min (who’s voting, who’s not, etc.), but I really can’t seem to grasp a read on them :/ I will try to ISO them (again) in a bit, to see if maybe I can come up with a read.
So, he doesn't know how he feels about them because he can't read them, but he doesn't oppose a lynch on them, but he doesn't support one either, and he'll keep looking into that. Right.
This kind of tapdancing to avoid pinning down a read, especially on an active player who has been under fire, tells me that he's just keeping his options open for future voting and not really concerned with their actual alignment. It's also not really the first time he does it: his call for everyone to reread Regfan in
Post 500 without following that up with anything substantial--like a pressure vote or even a solid case--is another instance of this. Furthermore, in
Post 603 and
Post 622, he puts Regfan on his list of those who "look good" for entering the game strongly, though in
Post 644, when he is finally answering questions, he's back to being paranoid about Regfan, but he makes sure to establish that he has more of a town read on him despite that.
Overall I really just feel like Edd is trying to play it safe with his reads, and I don't like how he has started telling us how town he is rather than just being town.
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My strongest scum reads are on Shadow, Edd, Minimum, and Shinori. I'm still have about a few others I want to look into, but that will have to be later today, and I'm not 100% sure where I want to put my vote.
For now:
Why did you not react to Jal's "crap" vote 
. We're not trying to aggravate you for the sake of it at all -- we're asking you questions about your votes and your reads because, apparently unlike several other people, we're not convinced that you're town yet and want to get a better handle on what you're saying.