My Edge vote was 100% for fun to cause a 3-way tie. I knew I'd change it at some point. But then someone swooped in pretty quick after and broke the tie.
I don't buy this.
First of all, creating a 3-way tie "for fun" isn't in town's best interest. There are situations in which doing something like that could be useful to draw reactions - but just doing it and then not having a better explanation for it after the fact is a no-no.
But, alright. You're saying you voted like that "for fun" - but your own wording betrays that explanation. When you unvoted, you said you weren't feeling that vote "anymore with how things [were] shaping up." So... that means you
were feeling that vote before that.
UNVOTE
No put in this vote anymore with how things are shaping up.
I think you voted like that to avoid taking a stance against turmoil.
I find that the best thing to do to find scum when both big D1 lynch candidates end up flipping town is to look back and see who was acting weird around both candidates, hesitating to put down a vote. Your posts were the ones that best fit that description.
Not only did you vote for no reason for an unlikely candidate, but you also felt the need to distance yourself from both the turmoil and the Verelios vote:
I'll throw my two cents in and agree with folks finding the train on Turmoil a little odd. And rapid-fire. Is Wee the only one who has come out and given a solid explanation on their vote?
I really wanted to park my vote over on Verelios in response. The train on Turmoil took off out of the station very shortly after Turmoil's vote on Verelios to protect himself. That's an easy move for scum to jump on and pin as their reason and protect one of their own. Or just an easy move to jump on in general, even if not protecting one of their own. But reading Verelios' posts, and I'm not getting any scum vibes. Reads like a town trying to help poke the conversation and look for scum.
You didn't like the pile-up on turmoil, but didn't like the biggest alternative either.
And then, when you finally decide to vote against turmoil, you do so by agreeing with wee's case and meekly over-explaining it.
You preemptively list out the reasons for why people could look at you badly for this vote, indicating that you were very concerned about possibly getting heat for it:
I should have been more open about it, but I've been silently agreeing with most of what you've been posting about Turmoil. I didn't want to seem too bandwagony though, especially because I've been quiet. Seems odd to be completely quiet and then pop in after you've laid it all out to say, "Yeah, what they said!" But that is where I'm at now. I've never played with Turmoil myself, but I would expect anyone called out as much as them to step in here and start laying down some counter-punches.
VOTE: turmoil7
And finally, you spent the rest of the phase vocalizing that you felt bad for voting turmoil, but that he didn't leave you a choice with how he was acting:
At this point though, I feel bad railing on Turmoil because surely there is real life shit keeping him away (hopefully nothing serious). Seems abnormal for someone to be gone this long with no posts while they are getting piled on. I don't think this is scum sitting back not sure what to do, and just trying to skate by. Of course, he could still be scum AND busy as hell in real life.
At this point I'm not moving my vote off of him without him piping up and giving good reason, so definitely not trying to convince folks of anything. It's more the lame parent in me thinking, "I hope everything is okay...." for no good reason.
Agreed. Turmoil had a chance to defend himself, and he came out with guns bla---urmm...hrmmm...well, he kind of just lied down and asked to be beaten to death with wooden spoons. My vote is pretty concrete at this point.
You spent more posts justifying and excusing your votes (or lack thereof), that ended up being based on arguments from others, than scumhunting or questioning other players.
It's hard for me not to see this behavior as that of scum. You seemed more concerned with how you would look doing things than with what you were doing.
VOTE: Vincent Alexander
