I'll highlight a few posts I found that stood out to me as I read through but I'll try to keep things concise. I hate reading walls and I hate making other people read walls from me - I'd rather not encourage you guys to write overly long catchup posts (SE tip: Don't put yourself in a position where you need to catch up!)
yessiree's
post 67 gives me "you caught me for the wrong reason" scumvibes; it's been used to catch me out before. There's a confidence of "ha, they'll never get me like that" that suggests scum.
For the opposite reason, yessiree's
post 102 implies otherwise. Given that gene had been at lynch-1 for a page or more at this point, was a quicklynch so likely? And why be scared of it? If anyone rushed to quicklynch gene from that point, we would have learned a lot about their alignment. This post makes me think that yessirree is more concerned with looking responsible and town than he is about finding scum.
gene's
106 feels like a good reason to
UNVOTE: gene. I may not agree with his reads here (and by 'may' I mean 'do') but it seems like he's put some effort into scumhunting, as asked, and they don't look like they're reads that he's made up to appease us. He can be town for now.
Or can he? I'm now up to Bacde's
143, which makes me wonder if I've had that reaction to gene's list of reads because I'm coming into it fresh after a few days, with gene's scumminess not really in my mind very much anymore. I'm considering revoting gene but we'll see at the end of this post.
OK, by the next page gene is posting stuff like
this 155, trying to appease Doctorpepper by complimenting how he's come up with his reasons for wanting to lynch gene while also appealing to emotion as his way of convincing him not to follow through.
It's getting later and this post is getting longer so I'm going to start being a little more streamlined and skimmy with the promise of going back over things tomorrow. So: Doctorpepper is town, Bob is town. Gene's self-vote is annoying and Bacde's right that nobody should do it, but it does make me reconsider
again
what I think of gene. I really don't know at this point but I think I'd rather lynch yessiree, maybe?
Hmm. Last couple of pages are interesting. In the end I think I'm left with a slight townread on gene's slot for replacing out (particularly as things just started to seem to be perhaps moving away from his lynch).
On Bob's 'slip': I think it's prrrrrobably worth lynching but, after his whole "I'll probably not be alive next time I'm online!" I want to call his bluff. We shouldn't lynch him until he comes back to defend himself. If he's town, this is obviously a good thing. If he's scum, we either force him to say things before he dies (which we can analyse after he flips to search for buddies) or he tries to wait it out and we are reassured that we've caught him and can lynch even more happily than we would now.
So what's it to be, Bob? I want you to take that shot at defending yourself. Have a go.
