It would have been bad for me. I had nothing firm against him so if I had voted him I would not had a good reason to give for why. That would just opened me up for a counter attack by him against me. When I know someone is scum and I have a reason I firmly believe in I will vote for them and damn the consequences but just voting willy nilly after random voting is done would only worsen my position.
Would have been bad for you: Quite likely, yes. However, talking about how you would vote for someone but you're not because it would look really bad for you is also bad. And I ask again: Why use the word "look" in the original post? Why outright say that voting would look bad for you?
Opening you up for a counterattack: So does posting about how you suspect the guy but voting would look really bad for you.
As for the second thing I was more just putting out there that we did not know if he was town or not and if he could in some way show it was unlikely he was scum all the better. By forming it as a question it makes people have to think about it more then a statement and allows a response by him.
Acceptable.
Darvi, if being concerned about ones image is scummy then we are all scum.
Actually...okay, here goes nothing:
*The goal of the mafia is to gain a majority in the game, essentially. To do this, they have to try not to die. The mafia generally needs to project a town-like image. Thus, that is what they will focus on: looking town. A cult basically does the same, but it replaces the killing with assimilation.
*The goal of a survivor is to, well, survive. This requires creation of a careful image: not townie enough to get nightkilled, not scummy enough to get lynched.
*The goal of a jester is to get lynched. Again, carefully create an image, this time based around looking scummy enough to lynch.
*Finally, the goal of the town is to wipe out the scum. It is not to project an image. It is to figure out when other people are trying to look like something they're not, and get that across to the rest of the players.
The point I'm trying to make is that, out of all the common alignments, everyone BUT the town is out to project a carefully constructed image. The town is out to prevent that from working.
Also, I'm wondering what's going on with your defense. First it's "Saying that voting would look really bad for me isn't the same as saying that voting would make me look scummy", then it's "Voting would have been bad for me, and not just look really bad for me", and now it's "Being concerned about one's image isn't scummy!".
Just to get a better understanding of the situation:
Akhier: If I announced that I would vote someone, except it would "look really bad for me", what would you assume?