@Irrelephant:
Initially, I felt they were just taking Reck at face value--I read Reck's "I am not reading the game" post as a means of lying low and avoiding having to engage with the last 4 pages he had claimed not to read.
After that, though, when the wagon started rolling on me, Shoshin was pretty forthright with why they were scumreading me and a lot of it seemed influenced by the huge response I got from Kokichi and others.
It's not so much of a 'gullible' as in 'will believe anything, is being duped', but more like 'this player is sincere and is assuming sincerity from others', if that makes sense?
There's setup-spec reasons that are somewhat weak, role-related reasons that are a bit stronger, but the biggest things are that Reck has a lot of confidence in his vote, has reaffirmed that confidence, and has played a pretty safe/disengaged game despite calling some people out on scummy play. It comes together to make me feel that he's a town player that's taking calculated risks.
Shoshin read Reck's post about not reading, believed it, and didn't attack it/wasn't super critical of it--that play is very reflective of Shoshin's game approach and, likely, their alignment.
My tone seems to have been giving skitter issues with read clarity on my slot, and I know that my infrequent schedule is likely to add to that. I was apologizing mostly for not being able to be here consistently, though, since I feel like consistent play is one of the best means of producing content that'll get you read clearly.
It's weird that you aren't more critical of people that jumped on at that point and are instead complicit in wagoning me. If you really think that's where scum would be jumping on, who do you see as scum jumping on at that point and why? I understand the focus on me--you don't have a townread on me and want to push me for that, but it feels a little at odds with the statement about seeing me as a player scum would jump on re:my case on Kokichi. It's like "Oh this is where scum would jump on Varsoon. Time to vote Varsoon." I'm not saying you're scum for doing it, but that it is a weird thing to say.
I don't know that it says I'm wrong on Kokichi as much as it indicates that people want to discredit my voice in this game. It seems like something that's easy to parrot a bunch and build a wagon out of because then town players who didn't like the casing could also vote there because apparently bad/awful play/reasoning = scum reasoning and the more people lean on it being 'bad' without critiquing
why
the more people are likely to see it as bad for any given reason. I initially thought Kokichi was scum for perpetuating it, but Kokichi actually did a lot of trying to engage with my points and explain why they didn't make sense to him, which is why I put my vote on RadiantCowbells, who wasn't doing any of that engagement but was still drumming up the 'worst play of all time' 'gamethrower varsoon' situation.
@RadiantCowbells:
I'll take the third option. I keep my vote on you because you're my highest confidence scum read. I don't negotiate with terrorists.
@SirCakez:
In my experience, Porkens is far more madcap and frustrating.
@Skitter:
See my comment at SirCakez about Porkens play and my history there. I've faked guilties against him because I wanted his slot lynched so much due to frustration/perceived trolling. I was trying to see how Porkens would respond to a straightforward question about alignment--I felt a 'trolling' sort of answer or a straightforward response would be more likely to come from town-Porkens. Mostly, I was hoping to find a point of engagement with a player I had a stark memory of recently playing with, not just to inform my own reads, but also to start to get engaged with the game.
