if they’re not posting at all there are interpretations of that that make sense from both alignments, like, maybe they’re scum lurking but maybe they’re just really busy. also, a lot of people could reasonably be categorized as ‘just not posting at all,’ and (a) they can’t all be scum (b) I am not very confident in my ability to distinguish a town 3poster from a scum 3poster
whereas if they’re posting to complain about the threadstate, but not doing anything to change it, that indicates that they could be doing things to change it (since they’re in the thread and posting) but are choosing not to