scotmany12:
Had a feeling that posts from SC I referenced earlier plausibly looked like crappy distancing - it was terribly random of him to name two players he "needed to take a look at", likely he had a purpose in mind when he named scot/flameaxe, I think he thought he was disassociating himself with them. Became suspicious of him when I saw CDB's posts so I fully admit I may be biased here in my reading.
Pile-on vote on SC in 126, questions SC about singling him out in 154 but completely ignores the response from him in 161. Possible he considered it satisfactory, but it seems weird to cut off questioning of the person you're voting with that. Continues to go after him in 178, 308, but no further interactions. He spends a lot more time arguing with AJ in 402, 538, 543, 545. Some of that's surely activity-based, but even stylistically he's applying a lot more pressure to AJ where he just made sort of broad declarative statements about SCoug. Him asking "Why do you refuse to comment on the SC wagon then" really possibly looks like he's setting up AJ to be voted after an SC scum flip.
I don't find the unvote in 565 to be telling just because at that point MattP had replaced in, and in context I can certainly see being suspicious of AJ as making sense. But there's maybe a worrying feeling I get reading this ISO where I'm not seeing a lot from scot that seems..original? insightful? Like how he sort of adds to the suspicion on davsto by just saying "you've been scummy" and that his vote is "awful". Also notable in that post is he sort of blandly dismisses mattp's flameaxe vote, doesn't make a statement toward a read on him. This is a hard statement to justify I realize, and it could be something I'm imagining but not a whole lot feels like real scumhunting.
As CDB pointed out, interactions with Matt in 702 and 823 are fairly calm for a slot he was scumreading earlier. I know that when I saw Matt's flameaxe case, I thought it sucked, and I was
suspicious
of him for making it - to go "I understand but disagree" seems weird.As for his push on Davsto in 823, I can't really lie - I think town and scum would both have reason to push on Davsto at that point. I'm not sure how you'd tell them apart, because Davsto was largely useless. I am fairly confident now that Davsto's town, which means in all likelihood there's at least one scum pushing him.
Looking at itI don't like the statement in 1051 of "Town should defend themselves way more than that." because it feels like an excuse to lynch someone. I have no idea why someone's effort in defending themselves should be considered toward their alignment at all, scum are just as capable of defending themselves and town get unmotivated. It's kind of odd he claims "MattP's vote on AJ is awful." in that same post while saying he's okay with lynching AJ, doesn't really elaborate on a read there.
Never liked his suspicion of notscience, vote in 1205 looks not great, hard to understand why that's his go-to. Don't like the reasoning in 1206, feels totally fair for notscience to ask a townread who to wagon and it feels like scot's trying to make something out of nothing.
No idea why he expresses disinterest in wagoning mykonian in 1291. No mentions of him before that. Says Matt is a better vote in 1295, no reasoning, no real commentary on him. notable he's gone davsto-AJ-notsci with the MattP wagon starting to build - (VC after this has notsci/Matt at 5-5)
Him swatting down my question to Zito (1305) in 1309 kind of bugs me, especially as he's trying to justify lynching notscience when his strong scumread Davsto is on the wagon. Actually in both his case and Zito's, I don't like this. It's okay to be fine wagoning with a scumread, but to not react to it or comment on it strkes me as the action of someone who doesn't really care what their scumread is doing, which makes me wonder how real their read is.
Also he's pestering notsci about his vote on Matt in 1318, which is possibly sort of an oblique defense.
He very quietly moves over to the MattP wagon in 1545/1546, voting without actually explaining why. This looks plausibly like a bus. It's going along with the growing consensus, and doing it very quietly. The fact that he's gone into some detail on his othr votes but just sort of sheeps along on Matt is off. Then he's questioning spiffeh about second guessing in 1723, despite never really having expressed much confidence in the lynch himself.
Now I'm at the end of day 1 and going long but this is someone who'd be my preference to vote today, depending on how reads of Zito/Reck go (unwilling to lynch starbuck even if I scumread her(from memory I don't) because mollie is town, will have to look at that later). Going to go a bit more on his day 2 stuff in another post.
I know a ton of this isn't going to get read but screw it, I had to thought dump.
