Okay, I see what you're saying regarding TCS's statement.
Now, I would argue that the fact that he talks specifically about claiming
vanilla
is significant. In a game like this, somebody who claims to be vanilla will
not
give the rest of the town any reason via claim to deter their wagon -- regardless of whether they are scum or town. Beacuse claiming Vanilla is so utterly pointless, one might as well just allow themselves to be lynched. That's what TCS was getting at.
Nevertheless, even if I accept your meaning as being the correct interpretation, I find
MBL wrote:TCS's reaction was a water-treading exercise and a bizarre first thing to post unless he
was scum who
instinctively thought, "What a dumb-ass townie" and blurted that out.
to be untrue. Suppose TCS was a cop who had investigated Albert as being innocent. Suppose TCS had just legitimately come to the conclusion that Albert was town and thought he was still "a dumb-ass townie." You seem to have this constant aversion to people who state with any semblance of certainty that somebody is of a certain alignment. I think that's one of the things that bothers me, because you tend to think so damned black-and-white. Perhaps you're right and TCS really is scum and slipped up -- I currently find that to be rather unlikely.
MBL, could you point out specific cases in which your affinity for "slip-ups" has
actually caught scum red-handed
? I've recognized this as a favored tactic of yours, and I disagree with it. I am the kind of player who adopts a much more open interpretation to that kind of posting -- as I said, there are many reasons that a player might conclude that somebody is pro-town -- and I do not think that it makes a legitimate case in and of itself. I'd like to see some hardcore evidence that it actually works
more often than it leads nowhere
before I can even begin to accept your reason for voting TCS. Right now, to me, it looks like you're trying to distract from the Albertwagon by making a lot of noise in another direction.