Little bit of policy, little bit of not liking the claim. See below.
The votes on D3 that I saw for ProfP that I remember were largely for him being fluffy (and frankly, I don’t think being low-post-count or fluffy is super vote-able–it’s a null tell to me, as long as they vote). I also didn’t really agree with Pleo’s characterization of his “lynch the cult” plan as fully pro-scum. As for why I switched my position and voted for him–and for some reason I thought I posted about this but clearly I did not–once Pleo was revealed, following the person he abruptly locked on to and voted for repeatedly seemed like a good way to nail a scum.
No confirmation, no data at all, risks even if they are mostly who they claim to be = slightly to somewhat negative feeling towards the cultists. Modified by the fact that sach is also pushing the truly pro-town strategy of “always utilize multi-lynch to the fullest at this stage of the game”.
If one is killed and actually flips PFK/3rd/whatever, I’ll modify, but right now I don’t know if they actually have an exclusive win or if they have powers or if they are actually one of the scum teams playing a weirdo gambit or town playing a weirdo gambit.
Admittedly, yes. Also admittedly, it was a weak FOS in the first place–I didn’t (and still don’t understand) why he’d have revealed anything about the switch at all.
Having said that, I also don’t care that he’s alive: killing a switchholder is not especially high-priority for the scum since all it does is change the WIFOM calculation for the other unknown switchholder.
I’m not sure I trust anyone. To the extent we have revealed investigators or confirmable groups, we don’t! And rule #1 of Mafia to me is “anyone can be scum in the absence of hard data”.
The double scum team thing has messed my radar up completely–As I said, I can’t find scum in the voting patterns except for people who do actions that could be savior actions–pile-ons and busses mean nothing when it could just as easily be a town or the other scum team too.
I’m going to be perfectly honest–my work had a major reorg, and the hurricane of fallout dropped into my lap more than I expected it to in the last couple of weeks. I have five major (read as “more than 100 servers each”) hardware deployments in flight right now.
That said, I’m trying to THINK about this, but I don’t have a lot of time to sit down and really think about what to SAY about it. Long memory me remembers the time I got speed-hammer-lynched (like, the time between “made a obviously silly mistake” and “voted so hard night fell early” was a few hours or so) for making a brainfart and voting for a claimed mason once, so I default to not saying much.