After two days of waiting, my first real post is bound to disappoint!
Funny thing is when I've played before I like placing vote pressure on people who have yet to show up, I'm kinda sad I still haven't gotten one yet from you guys.
Early game:
Alma's idea that researching pre-game is scummy is dumb IMO. Every reason that a scum would (to look for scum tells to abuse in this game, to find the meta-play) is a reason a town would (to look for scum tells to use in the game, to find the metaplay). As it's been pointed out, he also assumed that Gamma researched us all in depth, whereas he only knew one player's icon beforehand, and has provided a plausible explanation. He then falls off the face of the earth, but given the holiday and such, it's a null tell part of the equation. Based on the overall situation I'm putting alma on extreme watch, I do think this was a bad play, but since it died out due to inactivity on alma's part it's hard to see how malicious it was.
At this point is when the f13 situation begins, voting mordy for alma having a case on gamma. Gamma explains himself on page 2, about 90 minutes after f13 votes for mordy. An hour later f13 responds, but still has the wrong player in his head, then an hour after that realizes his mistake. Deflects accusation of belligerence with deflection onto bob. Interestingly enough, bob asks why f13's vote is on gamma still, and f13 responds he hasn't found a better option yet. I don't like that playstyle to begin with, but he once again forgot his incorrect vote. However Bob made the same mistake, as it was clear who was being discussed, just that one vote had the wrong name. All suspicion I have on f13 does not include his mis-vote, I think it was a legit mistake.
Around this time muffin and chinaman have a hissy fit, with fat chic too. Muffin made a "I agree" post and got some shit for it, and defended saying he thinks FOS are dumb. Based on thin evidence and what I'm assuming is TONS of OMGU(and your gameplay style)S, muffin votes China. China responds with his equivalent, a HoS, and starts up a minor shit storm with muffin, both sides say the same thing over and over, saying they play differently, and forcing each other to use the other's play style is scummy.
At page 6 f13 wakes up and then launches a massive case on Muffin based on non-commitment and lack of real content. Muffin did provide some content, it was just a prolonged argument about which way to play is correct. I'm getting a weak scum read due to muffin's continual argument that was just contradiction (and I paid for an argument!) for most of the time. Not that chinaman was posting gems of wisdom either, I just think they both should have realized they are at a stalemate on that debate. I don't like that this is the only major move muffin has made this game.
F13 then makes some non-statements about why he voted for mordy/gamma for so long. "it is my habit to leave my vote where it is unless I plan to change it" comes to mind as particularly obvious. The real question is why didn't you PLAN to change it. We're not asking you to move your vote around all the time independent of your thoughts, and I suspect that your thoughts were "well at least now I can keep a vote on mordy for no reason." OMGUS doesn't really work in retrospect, you could have at least revoted for mordy for the REAL reason, since it was unclear who you thought you were voting for anyways. I know you say that since there was no present danger there was no reason to unvote, but there was also no penalty for unvoting or switching to gamma. It would've taken what...a dozen keystrokes?
F13 then points out that no one is discussing his case. I think that's a fair call because if someone brings up that much text, especially your TARGET, then it's worth a mention. However everyone IS paying attention to your lack of a good explanation for being stubborn. After that most of the rest is scumlist drama, with cruelty leaning on the "they help scum more than town" side, which I agree with. That and lots of just repeating arguments.
I just don't see anything more scummy than foilist13's lack of explanaiton for his vote, and maybe there wasn't one, which makes it a bad vote, which makes me want to
vote: foilist13
. Alma's case has stalled until he becomes active again, and muffin is the same provided he does something besides attack chinaman again.