I went back and looked at Mrs McGinty’s posting history. It wasn’t really all that difficult, because there isn’t a lot of substance to it.
His first contribution is the defense of Romanic (Post 530). “Having played umpteen games with the guy, I’d say one of his standout traits when playing as mafia is his attention to detail. To make such a huge error early on would be somewhat out of character.” He also puches Romanic for an early roleclaim, in both Posts 530 and 539.
In Post 678 he places a vote for Hal Briston for “pre-justifications for future scummy behaviour, negligible contribution to town efforts, and repeated attempts at hiding in humour”
Post 701 - he says “To the discussion at hand, the truth of Roman’s claim is practically irrelevant.” If it’s irrelevant, why the push a bit earlier to have him make it?
After this, there’s a bunch of back and forth with peeker, which has already been covered. In amongst all of this, in Post 1042, is her vote on peeker.
Post 1690 - another smudge at Hal for lurking
Post 1699 - attacks me for ‘supporting peeker’
Then there’s some back and forth with me…
Post 1938 - Votes Telcontar with no comment (not that much was needed)
Post 2185 - votes for me, following Normal Phase’s lead
After that, some more back and forth with me, and most recently is his temper tantrum because everybody is suddenly smudging him.
All in all, not a whole lot of actual participation, even though it appears that he’s been very chatty. A surprisingly large number of his posts were made in the back-and-forth arguments between him and peeker, then more recently him and me, and now between him and ‘everyone’. But the only real arguments of an kind I can see are:
“Romanic is ulikley to be Scum, becasue he usually pays more attention when he’s Scum”
“peeker is Scum, because he was suspicious of me and then wouldn’t properly answer my questions”
“Hal is Scum because he’s making ‘fluff posts’”
“Suburban is Scum because he was suspicious of me, and he defended peeker”
He seems to have a fixation on me (at least since peeker’s demise), and I don’t see much effort at all to locate Scum anywhere else. When he voted for me earlier today he said “I’ve still got a few leads to chase up on other players”, but gave no indication of who those other players might be. And now he’s decided to take his ball and go home, so I don’t suppose we’ll find out.
The only reason i actually placed my vote when I did is because Mcginty basically asked me to, not because I thought the case I had was strong. But the more I look at things, the more comfortable I am with it.
