Middle Ground
This is a person in the Null zone that isn’t really getting recognized as an important player.
Like not town nor Scum.
Not entirely Null but rather someone they are like “there there but they aren’t a concern”
As usually those players are scum.
Sometimes these players are Lean Town with no attention towards them whatsoever, so my suggestion is get these people the attention they should have.
Playstyle
Playstyles are never alignment indicative.
Never consider it as such.
Some Playstyles are naturally bad and as a result people tend to scum read that when they honestly shouldn’t.
Strong Playstyles
Just because someone has a Strong Playstyle you should never just instantly Town read them. If they are Town scum however are usually likely to do that. But keep in mind Players with strong Playstyles are able to play Townie as either alignment. So he careful.
Misguided Town
Pretty much it’s where Town is pushing town.
And you got to realize the difference between it.
This applies to a town pushing you as well.
You got to figure out where there alignment is from and you got to understand that you aren’t always right
Shade
Most of the time scum will shade a post.
Usually call a post bad or “I don’t like this” or some form of saying the post is bad.
That in itself isn’t always scummy but if they have no or have a lack of explanation towards their shade then it’s usually a scum tell.
Safe Vote
Scum will usually join a wagon that makes it so they don’t get any blame to them when the wagon is a mislynch.
Usually wagons like these are ones where there are Bad Playstyle Players, Players that made a mistake and Town are stupidly not seeing it, etc. get mislynched.
It’s a free getaway.
Alternatively it’s allowing them to join a free mislynch and it’s easy to spot if you look closely.
Interactions
When people interact with each other it can be used to determine others alignments as 2 or more players are going back and fourth allowing yourself to get a better read on those players to help determine their alignments
Pure or Forced?
Look at a post and look and see if it seemed honest and/or logical or if it felt forced like it shouldn’t have been said/didn’t feel right.
Pocket
Scum will sometimes pocket people if they believe doing so can allow others to be mislynched and they just have to keep you alive. So watch out for a potential pocket and an easy way to figure it out is to do a Scum/Town Tell Check and see if their actually town reading you as Town or scum just trying to use you.
Scum Telling.
To tell who’s scum it’s best to look at each player’s Motivation, Actions, Usage of context, Tone, How they do approach things and how they respond, etc.
There are many different types of Tells but these are stuff you look at.