And yes; I hammered wrong. I hammered the role which claimed basically the same as mine; making me suspicious; and had lied openly about it's role for far longer than needed.
Shadoweh hadn't actually done anything scummy besides lurking most of the game; and I brought her excuse of 'I've been busy'. Should I have thought of Sky selfhammering to stop the Roleclop on Shadoweh because she was his scumbuddy? Yes.
I'm pretty sure I did mention that at one point [Or someone did] but it could have equally been that the scumbuddy was someone else and Sky did not want another cleared member of the town to make the scumbuddy's job harder. At the time; Sky's selfhammer seemed non-indicative of Shadoweh's alignment. Denying town a townclear is pretty useful too.
I'd just come off a scumgame where me and my scumbuddy bused each other from the start quite heavily.
Apologies if the bussing didn't seem out of the question from my perspective.
Not faulting you for your lylo decision, but several things I wanted to mention.
There's basically no limit to the number of useless town roles. And if Polly was scum why didn't he just retract his claim to VT instead of visitor? Less suspicious overall and no drawback.
Shadoweh did plenty of scummy stuff this game. Bland and safe opinions, bad votes on D1, general going with the flow and lack of oomph, false bravado in LYLO, etc. Apart from the counterwagon vote D1 and the Sky_Paladin enabling quickvote without any further opinions (if she thought Sky was that scum she'd be looking for the other scum as well), there wasn't really a smoking gun, sure, but there usually isn't. Also, you're basically saying that Polly's play could basically be ignored because of something DNA lied about, when DNA is a known serial liar as both alignments.
If someone's about to cop a townie, as scum you're not going to call that person "confirmed town" because of the risk that someone would take that as a slip and actually treat them as confirmed town. If you were trying to pull a ruse though, you might call them confirmed town as your scumbuddy hoping someone would do just that. This is debatable anyway, so not really that strong of a point given that some scum have really weird thought processes.
I wouldn't say you and SB bussed each other heavily given how many outs you two left each other, the fact that neither of you were serious wagons, and the fact that you got a third person lynched anyway. The situation was quite different.