Ok. I’ve sat down to make this post a few times, but actually cutting through the backlog and ignoring all distractions has proven to be a bitch.
Vote Tom Scud
I picked up on him looking primarily at voting history and a quick look at his posts. I realize that others are voting for him, but I don’t want to rely on those cases, so I’ve gone through all of his posts to cite my particular references for my vote.
Exhibit AAn early soft claim alluding to the ‘townieness’ of his name.
[Exhibit B] A bit of a smear on my former incarnation here, but most importantly is what I consider may be an exploit of the ‘eek’…some people get Meeko and Peeker, and some people don’t. Even if you’ve ‘gotten’ either of them in one game, doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll ‘get’ them the next time around. Alignment usually has no bearings on who does and does not parse their styles of play. As such, they may offer scum some convenient leverage if a Townie happens to fall on the wrong side on the suspicion spectrum.
[url=http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=12258493#post12258493]Exhibit C](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=12252839#post12252839) On the flip side of the scum-would-know-peeker-was-town-and-use-it-to-their-advantage coin, despite using lack of understanding of Peeker against Texcat, he seems perfectly willing to embrace suspicions of Peeker here. The juxtaposition strikes me as someone who is trying to have their cake and eat it too.
Exhibit D
Seems to arrive back at the conclusion that peeker is just misunderstood town, while being careful to say that he has no idea of peeker is scum or town. That’s a lot of flip-flopping with respect to Peeker and he still seems to be allowing himself the flexibility to continue to flip-flop in case it comes in handy again, if he hadn’t died and flipped Town. Contrast this behavior with a single-minded pursuit of Texcat consistently through the game, and I think it is interesting.
It also leads me to Exhibit E where he switches his vote from Texcat, who he still thinks is the scummiest, to my predecessor. It doesn’t matter if your views are unpopular, Town should vote with their suspicions instead of muddying the voting history by joining a more popular bandwagon.
Exhibit F, the potential slip about a Night thread.
Exhibit G Another vote change away from his favorite whipping horse, Texcat, this time onto a known townie-lynching bandwagon on Freudian.
That’s as far as Ive gotten in my review, but more than enough to make me happy with my vote.