The point is, you use his discussion of the detective as a reason to vote for him, but then you go on later to talk about it like maybe it’s not such a scum tell. You’re trying to have it both ways, and you can’t.
Exactly, it’s a coincidence. If he’s scum, then you’re right. But what if he’s town and what he said is true, how’s he suppose to defend himself. You’re looking entirely at the action and ignoring any motivation. Seriously, do you think a scum is sitting there, merely reading the board at 8:40 PM, panics, and HAS to respond right away? Trying to deduce motivation from timing just doesn’t make sense.
And even if you ARE right that he’s lurking, you’re ASSUMING that lurking is necessarily a scum tell. Another classic newbie power role tell is lurking, being afraid to post anything, because you’re afraid you’ll give away extra information. So, even if you ARE right, you’ve not put forth any sort of information to differentiate scummy lurking, from power role lurking, or even simple intimidated vanilla townie lurking. Even if you are right that he panicked and had to respond, it could just as easily be a power role trying to prevent himself from being lynched as a scum trying to prevent himself from being lynched.
Finally, and this is directed to pedescribe, if, per chance, you are fabricating your busy schedule, shame on you. I think using real life reasons, or making them up, to avoid suspicion is very much outside the spirit of the game. As such, I’d tend to believe he was telling the truth, especially when there’s a sudden change like that. Real life DOES get in the way sometimes, and no one should be using it as either an excuse to generate suspicion or avoid it.
You’re missing the point here. You disagree with NAF’s reasoning again here. The point is, credit IS important. A good example of this is when Idle Thoughts changed his vote to lynch Kat in MV when both were scum. He gained a lot of townie cred that he used to almost get away with a mason claim later (and probably would have if MHaye didn’t have additional information). By being able to assign credit to yourself, if he shows up scum, you can go “See! I told you!” and if he turns up town, you can adjust the blame to NAF and point out where you disagree with him. You’re setting it up so you can either get townie cred if the town likes the lynch or avoid suspicion if we think it was scummy.
Swapping votes is not scummy, we’re all going to do it. What matters is the manner in which you swapped the vote. You were driving his lynch for most of the Day on some pretty wishy-washy evidence, but you’re quick to change it when you see an opportunity to justify a change. The other point is, the justification for that vote, in and of itself, is flimsy precisely because you set yourself up to have it either way.
Uh huh… nice try. 