There’s a certain justice in that perception. What I’m doing is reading over someone and asking myself, “Is what they’ve done consistent with their being scum?” If I find something that isn’t - for example, special ed crafting **DiggitCamara’**s question for TF, which was expected to reveal a new scum - then I consider them more likely to be townie. If I ever find something that’s just obviously scum, then I’ll make a song and dance about it. Usually, I find some stuff that could be scum motivated. And then I point it out, challenge them on it and see what they say. The basic idea is to start with the hypothesis that someone is scum and try to falsify it. Because there’s no such thing as scum behaviour, I do end up finding apparently contradictory behaviours scummy. But that’s bound to happen. Remember the whole discussion about “scum would never do that”? If I suspect **Rapier42 **for repeatedly being on bandwagons, it doesn’t mean that I can’t suspect **Nanook **for lurking, or you for being on one and then failing to vote for two straight Days.
brewha’s vote for **macey **is a big point in his favour. But there are two points to make against it. 1) The whole point of bussing is to make big points in your favour. 2) **brewha **voted early (possibly first, IIRC) and, as you say that wagon started strong and never let up. Enough people got into suspicion over saying they wouldn’t vote - what would have happened to an unvoter?
It’s this bit, right here. You’re acting like it’s a choice between following **NAF **or following Hawkeye. It’s not about that. It’s about you using your own judgement to vote for whoever is scummiest. Pretending that you’re choosing between two sides is abdicating responsibility. Backing the known townie - and claiming that as your justification - makes you look like you want to look good.
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What?! He’s dead town, he’s not the God-Emperor reborn. Why were you so quick to follow what the one active known townie wanted?
