I'll come back around to exlight after all. I don't feel the case on him was too strong yesterday and i suspect i'm tunneling but he's still the player that is pinging me the most and so he'll be my focus for now. Additionally his flip will be very valuable information-wise. If he flips scum then there are a few players who look very bad as a result (minish, KoD, fext, perhaps some others). If he flips town then his meta read on DW becomes more significant. Speaking of which:
Can anyone here verify exlight's claim that DW's attack on him was out of character? I assume this is the post in question that exlight objected to:
...I feel like I mentioned before that I was scumleaning you a bit when you first exaggerated my skill level in your description of my meta, and while I didn't outright mention that I found it scummy when you used meta to call me scum. I feel like it was implied? So its sitting on you because absolutely nothing you've done has stuck with me in a towny way (setup strategizing in and of itself, while somewhat helpful, is NAI) and I literally just explained what was scummy.
Yesterday I found exlight scummy because of his lack of engagement in the content of the game combined with his high activity in the game. He managed to convince me that his engagement was higher than I initially read it as though, and so I'm less concerned with this aspect of his play now, not that it was particularly telling to begin with. The larger portion of my read on exlight was in finding his reaction to be voted twice artificial. I'm no longer convinced this is the case either, as its clear to me that he was genuinely upset at EoD yesterday and I imagine his mood in either case was at least partially a result of outside factors.
Exlight not removing his self-vote at end of day pinged me. I've expressed this earlier but I'll say it again. I felt like exlight calmed down by the deadline and seemed to realize that he was behaving inappropriately. Despite that, he didn't remove his vote and instead basically stayed uncharacteristically silent until the deadline. A person's heart is a mysterious thing and so I don't feel confident in this sort of read, but I would expect a frustrated town exlight who was beginning to calm down to remove the self-vote, while i would expect a frustrated scum exlight to instead try to take advantage of it.
The other thing that pinged me was this post:
I PUSHED IT ALMOST TEN TIMES TODAY
This was exlight's response to my saying he wasn't doing much to attack his "main scumread". It was definitively false. Exlight makes a couple of posts while catching up that can be construed as criticisms of DW, though considering DW was voting him at this point they're just as easily construed as defenses of himself. Exlight doesn't vote DW at this time so its feasible to read his criticisms of DW as simply pointing out faults in DW's line of thought and not in expressing aspects of DW's behaviour that exlight believes are AI. Its not until later when exlight picks up more heat and gets frustrated that he decides to commit to a vote on DW
Vote: DawningWinds
not going to sit still and be wagoned by scum that doesn't even come with a decent explanation
which is obviously not a substantial post. After this post I believe he literally never brings up DW again until a few hours before the deadline when he switches his vote to KJ and complains about having to self-preserve.
Exlight's interactions with DW primarily constitute a few posts that only barely meet the bar for being called an attack. This is very lackluster for what exlight described as his "main read" and there's a large dissonance between how exlight described his activities in thread and what they were actually like. I believe that exlight was grasping for anything he could use to shake people off his wagon, whether it was true or not, and this is obviously a scumtell.
