Alright. We've been bashing newbies today. We've been bashing them a lot. Moonlit's been attacked for basically every odd misstatement, unfocused on-the-fly statement, question abandonment, and 'scumslip' (rule 1 of scumslips: they're almost never actually scumslips) he's made/done, but I'm pretty sure he's town. The jabs at ATH largely fall apart when his meta is considered. What does that leave? I'll start by looking at most of the other people with votes on them (Hector will take more time, and I need sleep), and in particular looking at the cases against them.
NQT's been attacked
for, after some amendments to the case, his suggestion that people join up with him to vote ATH. Meh. This is very much an NQT move, more than a town or scum one. He likes to sometimes push people to vote with him or target his favourite suspects, but he sometimes has a hard time doing so without coming off either as scummy or as arrogant (which biases people in favour of thinking he's scum).
TheDarkStar has been attacked for, variously, bandwagoning, second-RVS-vote-on-newcomering (to put it awkwardly), 'admitting to bandwagoning' (he didn't), and inactivity. I'd like to see more from him (as always: he's never particularly active). Looking at the bandwagoning accusations (the primary ones), I am hesitant to attack him much for
his first vote, but
his second is more interesting. Third on the pileup on Moonlit. The following exchange is alarming, looking back:
TDS: To what extent did you consider the previous Moonlit votes when you laid your vote?
I saw the votes on him after I voted for him.
The statement itself is not the problem. I think he's telling the truth here, and that's what's alarming. The act he voted for Moonlit for had just happened right before he posted, and thus would be hard to miss. The same is basically true of his RVS vote, the first vote. The rest of his very limited behaviour? Purely reactive, purely responding to either his name or questions to everyone.
This includes responding to the post in which voted for Moonlit.
Conclusion: The few times he was even active, he did nothing more than skim, searching for his name or questions to everyone. Whenever he posted, he hadn't read the thread, except the last few posts at any given time and anything he was mentioned in. There's his normal activity, and then there's this: barely being here, sitting in the background, being almost purely reactive, and not scumhunting.
TheDarkStar: I want to see your reads on everybody.