I think Dan, Polaris, and Shadoweh are voting you. I haven't voted yet, despite everything that I've said. I'm a flexible person, I listen to counterarguments!
I have explained scum intent. PX lurked and I thought his methods of scumhunting were suspicious, as was some of the stuff he said, but I don't think that "arbitrary reads" was a valid complaint about him. He gave reasons for his Raikaria scumread in several posts (which was more or less his only explicitly stated read). Dan hasn't given reasons for any read other than his Rou suspicion early on which he never pushed very hard, NNR, which was just sheeping anyways, Bofh, and BT kind of. He hasn't given reasons for Polaris or Shadoweh, and the scum intent in giving arbitrary reads with nothing behind them is the context. The arbitrary townread on Polaris is being used to justify PoE so that he can just sit on the vote and give no other reasons for it. Once I flip town, because the read on Polaris is so arbitrary, it would be extremely easy for him to then switch his opinion on Polaris, because he has no prior reasoning to overcome, and just use "PoE" as a justification again.
PX's random things out of context (I don't know who arbitrary reads refers to) was just something I quoted that you brought up against PX. I'm still not sure what this intent you were talking about was (lurking town with questionable methods of scumhunting have been the bane of town in mafia games since forever) but in any case he was only one of the people you cased against. When I say "intent," I'm not saying I expected you to say explain every detail of why something someone did furthered their scum wincon, that would just be busywork and I'm sure you could make up something like that about almost anyone. Also, it'd just be after-the-fact justification anyway. It's about separating the alignment neutral stuff (bad play, lurking because no time) from the alignment-connected stuff (deliberately bad play, tactical lurking). It's the difference between going "oh this person's play is pretty funky and i want to remove them from the game so bad but they're probably town because such and such" and "wow this person's play is funky thus they are scum." I see a lot of the latter in this game.
I sympathize with PoE being frustrating to defend against. It's pissed me off so many times as either alignment. But if you're going to talk about PoE, Dan's vote on you came before he even really started talking about PoE, for, if I recall correctly, suspecting Serela. PoE doesn't really come into this at all. Now, if you're talking about reasonless votes...
Lazy cases isn't just playstyle. Laziness is scummy. Dan is one of the most active posters in the game. He's here all the time and still his posts have low content in them. That's like the definition of active lurking.
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Since you're making me do this, yes, the lazy cases you're talking about are a playstyle. Yes, lazy cases are also scummy as a general rule, but that doesn't negate the fact that some people post "lazy cases" as either alignment. If this weren't true I'd lynch all people who didn't post scrupulously logical walls of text and win all my mafia games. This definitely applies to Dan; you saw some of this in games like Town Mafia, so why are you so fixated on his behaviour in this game when he's posted loads more in this game than in Town Mafia? His posts may be low on words but the difference in how he posts as either alignment is his reads and his posting attitude. As town he's very relaxed and he posts who he thinks are scum/town when it comes to him. When he's scum he's nervous to post because he doesn't want to PoE his scumbuddies. But anyway, enough of that. What kind of content are you looking for from Dan that would make him not an active lurker? A detailed explanation of why you're scum? Well, sure, let's ask Dan.
Dan, why do you think BBM is scum? Not just the Serela thing. Might as well explain more while we're at it since you're not going to be convincing other people with that argument of yours.
