If a wagon based on lynching a lurker who is currently voting one of his town reads is bad, how bad is a wagon based on the offensive of lynching a lurker that isn't providing the town with any content?
Sorry, I guess I phrased it wrongly; I have no qualms with the 'reasoning' behind why PX is scummy or even voting and lynching him for the day, it's just that solely voting him and not having any other scumreads is less than ideal, which is indeed the case with you, Serela, and Dan. The reasons for going after him are so bone-headedly simple that scum can jump on the wagon (if PX is town) with impunity and spout the illusion of 'content'. It is easy to be pro-town over a lifeless marionette.
There is no factor for future consideration that comes with a choice between X and Y. It is merely a complete banking on a weak but reasonable assumption that active lurkers are scum, and if the assumption turns out wrong or subverted by, say, a reasonable post + vote from PX, then what remains is either a scramble for the next easiest target, or a failed D1 and a D2 with several people having nothing to their name except a few town-reads. This has happened in the (ActionDan - Shadoweh - Dormio) scramble for PoR and the Hero999 thing in IMP, as it has in many other games.
It is thus in town's interest to have at least a second, more interesting opinion on the scumminess of others other than PX. GreyICE certainly has one on Anthy for 'rolefishing' (?) and tunneling (?), but given that that is a product of what I see as anti-town means, that makes him more scummy.
His (Anthy's) methods haven't been pro-active and his opinions mainly revolve around null actions, so I don't think it's actual town-intended scumhunting. This is different from the PX wagon, which at least involves pressing PX over something legitimately scummy instead of just observing "weird" stuff he's done.
This is the funny thing here, most of those voting for PX (Dan, Serela, Shadoweh) aren't exactly proactive beyond the power of their vote and are merely, as you say, making the simple observation that he has no content whatsoever which happens to be universally accepted as scummy. I'm not quite seeing the distinction you are making between Anthy, ShadyK, and these two groups; your vote does not seem to be a logical consequence of your premises.
Affinity, what do you actually think of the newer players yourself? You seem to be using Serela and I's stances on them as venues to accuse, but you yourself have none.
I'm not seeing anything worth pointing out for today other than reportering; ShadyK is pro-active and reasonable in his token case against IHNM, with a good range of opinions.
I agree with Anthy's case on ICE, discounting the 'secret shenanigans' which I view as null, though his lack on the opinions on others is disturbing. I espouse his comment about ICE more or less 'poking people with one sentence explanations' and 'active lurking', which rings true.
rawr's questioning of ICE is legitimate and I'm surprised ICE does not deign to answer him, though he needs to update his vote. IHNM is completely null and has more or less represented half of where the winds were blowing today as a whole. In short, not worth persuing today.
