Um, huh? Prior to your vote, Hal had four votes and Zeriel three; afterwards, they were tied. (At least per my review; I’m willing to believe that I made a mistake, but somebody will need to point out where it is.)
How do you figure that, given that my vote took Zeriel, a known townie, out of the lead? What possible motive would scum have for protecting Zeriel?
And no, my analysis doesn’t put a great deal of weight on the reasons you or anyone else gave for their votes, because honestly, reasons are little more than distracting noise. By Day 3, any player can come up with a plausible-sounding justification for voting for any other player. I am looking at voting patterns, which are a lot harder to manipulate or conceal than the reasoning behind the votes. The pattern I’m seeing is that Hal, an early favorite, keeps being edged out of danger as the deadline gets closer. Yes, I do think that scum will swing the vote away from one of their own as often as they can get away with doing it. There aren’t that many of them. Why shound they let someone swing when they can easily persuade the crowd to vote elsewhere? (That said, I no longer believe that scum did much manipulating of the vote on Day 2, because they didn’t need to – they had plenty of townies willing to do their work for them.)
I’m not going to delve deeply into why I was frustrated, because it revolves around me being Town being falsely accused of scummy behavior when I was busting my hump for the good guys and that, of course, is unprovable. I’ll answer questions if anyone feels it is necessary, but I don’t see how it will be productive to dwell on it.