Caz:
And to everyone else - if you were cop, how would you use your findings as well as possible without revealing yourself?
Blanket questions like this do not catch scum. However, I'll answer in the spirit of ICing.
The cop role should be used as a complement to your day game, not a replacement. Given the possibility of a godfather (and in non-beginner games,
millers), results are not foolproof. You have to temper them to your own suspicions. That said, if I got a scum result on someone and I trusted the result, I'd vote them and build a case on them. If I could not build a case, I wouldn't invent something to incriminate them- I would claim it. I'd probably claim anyway, unless maybe it was a N1 scum result in a huge game.
Town results I'd mostly just turn my focus away from the person, unless they were being incredibly scummy (here, considering possibility of godfather.) I would be hard-pressed to claim a town result on someone just to save them from a lynch.
Speaking of which, are you scumhunting now because I called you out on it?
Nope.
Maybe you should.
I really can't tell who's scum today, so I'm going to roll the dice and vote ShoesandHats. Is that allowed?
Is it legal? Yes. Is it a terrible, terrible idea? Yes.
How about I vote you,
Caz, until you start hunting scum? You can't hunt on the sideline and wait for scum to come to you, and you
really can't vote randomly and expect to find them.
Andrew:
Remalle, why don't you throw a vote at Caz if you suspect him? Are you just soft balling your teammate?
Because the day had just started. There's still plenty of time to vote him AFTER I collect enough evidence against him (er, or so I assume. I'm not actually sure when the day ends, but I guess there's at least twenty-four hours left?).
How about you, Andrew? Trying to call both scum at once, diverting all suspicion from yourself? Trying to get me to vote for someone that's not you? What were you doing on D1, anyway? I seem to recall you random voting Drakon at first and then doing nothing for the rest of the day.
Why are you acting so defensive? It was a simple question
This is deflection. Remalle is bringing an attack on you, and instead of responding to it, you turn it around on him. It's a scummy move.
What's your actual response to his allegations?
Drakon: Defending yourself (as in responding to questions and attacks) is all well and good, but to really get people to not vote for you, you need to hunt scum on your own.
You may notice I keep pressing people to hunt scum. That's because it's the number one- indeed, the only- objective you have as town. If you're not hunting for scum, you're not playing to win. If you still have nothing at this point in the game, I recommend you read the Dakarian Scumhunting Bible that's spoilered at the bottom of the first post of the thread. It's a good starting point when you have no other ideas.