Ok, finally did my re-read.
Thoughts:
First off...
IMOPEN2 NEEDS TO POST MORE. If that dude is scum he is hiding extremely well and no one is calling him on it.
Secondly;
Iso, I did not like your rcw case. I read it, and your reasoning was similar to mine against TubeHunter so I at least see where you were coming from in general, but overall the case just wasn't there for me.
rcw and RedNihilist are my other two scumreads at this point.
rcw:
Page 7, rather than give original content, /barns Suga and says "I'm going to look into Checkbox and Iso because that's what that dead townie said I should do." Keep in mind, rcw's first content-filled post of the game came on page 3, and even then all he did was /barn Stardust at that point.
Page 4 he asks to hear more from people without offering any actual insight to the game state or
reads at all. He falls hard into the "doing nothing but /barning" category that TubeHunter and RedNihilist are into, and right now that's a large part of why they are on my scum-radar.
Page 7 he says Tube is starting to look scummy - After a decent case has been made and many have chimed in saying he is scummy-looking right now. To rcw's credit, he does grill Tube a bit before throwing his vote there,
rcw does finally come in with some original content (a case on Iso), and to me it feels forced. Like he really had to try and go find things to say about him - this makes sense because the reasoning for making the case in the first place is coming from Suga, not rcw himself. For example, he tried pointing out that Iso "steered the wagon", so to speak, on Suga. Suga dug his own grave, through and through, that is clear as day. The wagon was strong because Suga himself was pushing it. Iso then defends the case in a strong way IMO, and rcw comes back looking worse than before. Iso points
out inconsistencies with rcw's case, and rcw comes back with next to nothing.
to me, Iso won that exchange, and it wasn't even close.
rcw then says its scummy for Iso to focus on the L-2/L-1 typo, but still hasn't actually answered the inconsistencies brought up with his case. rcw, to me, is trying to deflect the pressure being brought on his flimsy case in any way he can.
Stardust, why do you think rcw is town? I don't quite follow your explanation above. This is especially confusing since you acsed him on Page 8 and landed him on scum.
RedNihilist:
Correctly identified Suga on day 1 as being too aggressive - this is about the only townie thing I've seen him do.
Up until page 4, he just seemed new to me rather than being scummy. Then on page 4, he feels the need to point out that he has "nothing to hide", and uses the phrase "my poor self".
Townies should act with a bit more conviction, no?
Later on Page 7, he starts questioning the accusations of our only confirmed Townie. Despite Suga being wrong about me (I am town), what possible reason would Suga (a townie himself) have to just throw random accusations out there before he dies? Unless he is a uber-troll, presumably his reads were sincere at that point. The fact that Red tried discrediting them worries me.
After Red gets cased and voted, he plays the victim like TubeHunter did - "I have been playing poorly, I don't blame you for voting me" and even calls Stardust town for his case... literally the same exact thing TubeHunter did.
Then after he gets some original questioning and thought processes going, he just abandons them very quickly and says "I'm going to go read TubeHunter's posts now". At this point, he should absolutely have some reads going, enough that he shouldn't just have to /barn the "lynch of the day" when his only original content of the
game gets questioned a bit.
Those are my thoughts on those two. Frankly, I'd be ok with lynching either of them today, although TubeHunter still looks scummy as hell to me. If I had to single one out, it would be TubeHunter because he has only continued to deflect attention off of himself and has done nothing to convince me of his townieness since claiming. In fact...
TubeHunter, after OMGUS'ing a vote on me, moves back to RedNihilist (on page
after being reminded that he targeted Red late Day 1. This is super scummy to me; if he were townie, presumably he wouldn't have forgotten about that read and wouldn't have to be reminded of it pages later only after he came out of a case/response exchange looking worse than before.
Other thoughts:
Stardust - you asked me a few questions a few pages back.
"1) If your entire issue with Iso was that he went against the spirit of the game, why did you think Iso was
scum?"
When I first went through the thought process of the initial "gamble" post, I wasn't quite comprehending what had happened and was being fairly illogical (along with not quite knowing how to phrase what I was trying to say). My main thought was (and is) that it does not auto-confirm Iso as town, as you seem to think it does.
"2) In light of Suga's flip, what do you think of imopen2? And Iso too, while you're at it."
imopen2 has had like 10 posts all game. He really needs to post more.
Iso... I'm >90% sure he is town, for a variety of reasons. One of which being his response to his case (though its not terribly difficult to look good when a flimsy case like that is thrown at you).
3) Respond to my responses to your case. There are two questions there that I want answers to.
"What if I told you that noob scum are more likely to just keep quiet rather than throwing out random comments in the beginning of the game?"
I would trust my reads over
that, as I don't read too much into "noob players tend to X" statements.
"Let's say a hypothetical townie wanted to cast the first real vote on that wagon, following my initial grilling of Suga. How would that townie vote look, in your opinion?"
It would probably consist of reasoning behind the vote. Doesn't even have to be much, but more than "you look scummy now".
I think this is enough for now.