I am fully cat-napped, so I will try to explain my reads in full now:
camelcasedsnivy
is very likely town in my eyes. I'm a sucker for the type of suicidal, self-sacrificing townies you see in newbie games and he slotted into that role early in day 1. While the early claiming and offering to be eliminated can be faked, it rarely is. It generally takes a clever, bold player to do it, and my profile of camel, based on their signature saying, ah, "I suck", is that they're not the most confident player and would be unlikely to fake such an attitude. I think in terms of scumhunting they've been
all right
, there's some attempts at forming reads but I somewhat dislike the over-reliance on following others. Still, things like
332's "im trying to make good reads as much as possible" feels self-conscious in a legitimate way.
RH9
is a bit similar in that he seems a player who is inexperienced and low confidence in his own reads, but despite the constant wishy-washiness in his reads, I do get the sense he's legitimately trying to scumhunt. I believe the struggle from him to find reasons to suspect people is real, in part because he's not hiding behind that as an excuse to do nothing - he's still continually trying to make sense of what's going on and form reads. Stuff like the wall at the end of day 1 tends to be very often town from a newer player simply because it's legitimately attempting to solve the game.
I do think
Prism
is probably town at this point. My suspicion of her on entering the game was mostly a bluff to see how she'd react to it. Her response felt towny enough to me although I'm not sure how best to explain it here. It stuck me as genuine skepticism and annoyance at my push rather than the response of "drat, someone who knows me well replaced in and is scumreading me". I think the reflexive distrust of flow trap's townread of her is, in fact, a town-motivated thinking but a flawed one and was trying to get her to see the flaws in her thinking there. I buy her insistence she wouldn't have forced town to eliminate day 1 rather than letting it go to deadline.
CheekyTeeky
ticked a fair number of scum indicators for me as I was reading - her townreads came too early and off too little, the initial energy faded into inactivity, her posting at the day 1 deadline felt performative. And yet her responses to my questioning made me feel uncertain, even though I wouldn't say they were
good
answers, the refusal to explain her thinking at all is frustrating
MargotRosa
mostly just seemed like obvious scum to me, and the reception of her in-thread showed how people have a vulnerability to well-formatted wall posts. I found the analysis in them mostly undercooked, and since that point, she largely fell off. The awkwardness in her shifting reasoning for suspecting Prism felt to me like scum who was making up justification after the fact and forgot what their original reasoning was supposed to be.
Her posts today feel like going through the motions, she claims there's scum on the wagon but doesn't really do much analysis of people's votes there, instead picots to RH9 who feels like someone who gets himself into trouble by being awkward. It feels like a push scum would make rather than a genuine line of inquiry.
I've written some about
XonnorDragon07
already, in general there's not a ton of content from him but I had somewhat bought him as the type of player who was hesitant to act unless there was mechanical info. I do think the "did we just mis[lim]" post is bad and there aren't any posts that ispire strong feeling in me, the analysis from him I've liked the most mainly pertains to margotRosa.
My general theorizing, while I was catching up, was pointing me toward a MargotRosa/CheekyTeeky team - Margot gave essentially a non-read on Cheeky in her reads list, Cheeky's townread of Margot came far too easily and for far too simple a thing. However CheekyTeeky's response to my questioning threw me for a bit of a loop as it wasn't the response I expected from scum there - something abouyt the frustration and demand I give her space didn't feel like the mentality of scum in that situation who might feel threatened by my questioning. It's odd because that alone threw off my feelings and made me consider that I might be thinking on too basic a level. It's possible that I was premature in my asessment of connordragon, and that the team is MargotRosa/ConnorDragon - they've been continually suspecting each other all game but have avoided making any sort of direct pressure on one another. That made me re-think connor after my earlier defense of him to Prism.
In general, I advise newbies against trying to think in terms of exact teams, because it's far too easy to get caught up in false associations between players. However, my thinking on who is scum is hard to separate from this thinking, so I thought I'd just lay it out in the open to be understandable. I think the players in my scumreads are all suspect on individual terms,
These are the quick versions of my thoughts, without anything like citing exact posts, but it still took me a significant amount of time to write, I can try to go into detail if this is unclear.