First off, I gotta go somewhere soon so this post might be rushed and will most likely not answer everything. I'll probably also be gone for most of the rest of the day.
Anyways, I rarely speak in terms of "Player X is suspicious", unless I'm summing up my read on somebody. Most of the time I prefer "I dislike this thing that Player X is doing" because my overall read on someone is based on an aggregate scumminess of all their posts. I can dislike one thing and like another thing that someone is doing.
WRT me not following up on Dormio- what was there to follow up on? It was literally in Dormio's very next post after I said I thought he was ignoring stuff that he posted opinions, and I happened to agree with them. As for my overall thoughts on him, what he has posted, I think is okay, but I still think it's quite narrow. That one post that I said I liked is, I think, his only real content post. So I'm still somewhat suspicious, but that doesn't mean that I can't agree with what he said about Raikaria.
Yeah, Raikaria said he was busy in one of his last posts before subbing out. That's not why it was an appeal to emotion. It was an appeal because he was like "RVS ended as soon as people started misrepping me", which had a whiny tone to it that I didn't like. I'll apologize in postgame if I'm wrong (for whatever that's worth) but I cannot see how I misrepped Raikaria early on, I really can't. Earlier, I bolded the section of the post where he said that he was good at MAKING people take a stab at him. That implies intention to me, and then first saying it was a gutread, then defending it as nothing more or less than a gutread, and then saying it was just a joke, sounds all over the place to me in a way that I think is scummy. And yeah, BT, I think backtracking to defend yourself is scummy and I vote people for it.
About me trying to make out that I'm a worse player than I actually am- I'm not saying I'm a bad player, or a new player. I'm experienced enough to know strategies and lingo like Availability Cascade, but that doesn't mean I can't make mistakes, and it legitimately confused me that from the get go, VM was placing me under such high standards, where a post saying I was confused was enough for a vote that at the time, VM was making out to be very serious. I don't get his logic regarding me, but I think he's probably town if only because people were finding him town for his long, rambly, and stubborn cases against me, and he just took back large chunks of his case as one large ploy to get out of RVS. I don't think scum would just throw away towncred like that.
I dislike how Shadoweh is like "Validon made mistakes in his last game, so he's not improving". Okay, he didn't improve in his last game. Why does that mean he can't be getting better in this game? She asks him to show how he's improved, but she's literally on his case for NOT sheeping and wagoning. Isn't that a case just there of him improving? As for me voting Raikaria for saying things that could be misinterpreted- that's not why I'm voting him.
That being said, Validon's listpost was completely useless as it basically said everyone except one or two people were nullreads. It was a huge bunch of fluff.
It's like evening now in Britland and I talked to SB for a while in GMT morning, so I know he was here today. Post more dude.
More when I come back at night.