LW's actions over the last few turns have, to be frank, struck me as highly suspicious. Between the
excessive roleplaying and attempts to convince you that
he's really just an innocent newbie, he's looking more and more like a scumbag trying to mask his own lurking.
Let's look specifically at his since Fallacy was lynched. He started off the turn with several "filler" posts.
This is not good, we've got this turn to lynch mafia or Luchabowl IV could be ruined for good.
What ho, I have been slain!
(Good luck with the game.)
(bah post.)
Alas! Such misfortune! You were innocent all along!
Loud Whispers, how did you feel about NotQuiteThere?
notquitethere was one of the people I was leaning towards Townie, the strongest townie to be true since Grak went.
Now, to be fair, he did supply us with a half-decent explanation...
Loud Whispers, why did you single out Fallacy yesterday?
This post
Loud Whispers:
This is not good, we've got this turn to lynch mafia or Luchabowl IV could be ruined for good.
Super. What are you going to do about it? You haven't exactly started this day with the actions of one desperate to lynch scum.
Between losing nqt, leading the lynch on FOU and the lurkers I'm left needing time to think, a little shaken up by FOU just being a noob.
To be even fairer, it took him another
two days before he posted anything of substance.
Top lel, triggered by Luchadores
Not helpful. Annoying, even.
I do try to entertain. Now play the game, smartass.
You don't sound like you're having fun. Would you like to calm yourself first?
Oh God, just stop.
I am having fun, and this -is- me being calm.
Would you like to try your hand at scumhunting now? I'd just like to remind you that this is MYLO, and activity is paramount.
Hey, what is MYLO? Also it seems your sardonic wit has thrown a spanner in the tracks - when you got scrubs who don't know what they're doing mixed with scum who are content with letting you do all the talking all activity is going to grind to a halt. Hahaha, big mean Shakerag - you're making nubs and scum bugger off, nubs haven't got any investment in a game they've just picked up, and if they can't handle the banter they're just going to go outside and scum are just going to let you talk yourself to yourself.
And just to clarify, you picked off from where 4maskwolf left off right?
Urist McCoder, who are the two you believe are most likely to be Scum?
The decent word count here doesn't make up for the fact that he spent four sentences spinning a weird, largely irrelevant argument about Shakerag's playstyle(which comes across as reactionary given Shake's recent criticism of LW), and then decided to slap an unwarranted lynch vote on Urist McCoder so he could claim he was scumhunting.
And when
he finally did post something substantial, he still failed to scumhunt. Rather, he embarked on a lengthy rant in response to Shakerag's post, basically trying to convince us that no, he really wasn't as scummy as he seemed. My recommendation to LW: if you don't want to look scummy, actually hunt scum.
Verdict: Loud Whispers has demonstrated a reluctance to scumhunt productively, which is either a symptom of newbhood (as I'm sure he'd rather we believe), or, more likely, indicative of his being scum. His posts over the last turn (and, I would argue, the last two turns) have largely consisted of fluff and half-baked self-defense, which strikes me as highly suspicious. I'm not going to drop a vote on him just yet, as the evidence isn't entirely damning; however, he's going to have to work pretty hard to convince me of his innocence.