ah, all right then.
I’m currently doing an experiment…
…called “if I flip all my early D1 reads, what does my readlist look like, and can I justify it?”
keeping the null reads at null (and thereby ignoring them), I’d end up with the following:
Reverse reads from early D1:
myself as scum (lol)
Arctic as scumlean
Illwei as nullscum
PKR as scumlean
Maple as nulltown
Justification:
I’d justify myself as scummy due to scummy posts, I guess? lol
I’d justify Arctic as scummy for pushing and tunnelling me if he weren’t Arctic, but that contradicts the very reason I townread him. He’s still pushing aggressively to solve, although his death tunnel on me went away because of Marl.
I’d justify Illwei as nullscum due to underwhelming posts that didn’t really seem to go anywhere, but it could also be due to lack of confidence. It persisted in the thread, too, even up till now. (I had her as nulltown due to at least writing a few posts that kind of looked productive or towny tonewise, but I’m actually not seeing it as much now that I look back on it. It’s more NAI at best and I suck at reading tone anyway.)
I’d justify PKR as scumlean due to townleaning Shurian and Maple mainly for old meta, but that’s the strongest argument I can come up with from the early posts, which tells me it’s a weak argument. I do, however, want to look more at his interactions (or lack thereof) with Marl because Marl randomly pointing at PKR seems more like a familiar thing than spewing PKR now that I think about it. (I had him as a townlean because he looked like he was contributing. Also, his vote on Eevee was veeery early in the game, and looked like it was for pressure to get Eevee to appear in the thread. He just never retracted it and I guess I also forgot it existed.)
I’d justify Maple as a townlean for early posts if I just sheeped PKR on saying it’s within Maple’s townrange. Otherwise, the earliest posts from them are just fluff. Right now, I really don’t think they’re the most likely to be scum. Unless they stop sheeping Eevee’s votes, they’re not doing anything right now to help scum, and they certainly wouldn’t have missed the nightkill imo. (I originally scumread them for fluff and cc’ing JoaT with bad timing.)
Conclusion:
I can’t see myself as scum.
I can’t see Arctic as scum.
I can see Illwei as potential scum.
I can see PKR as potential scum.
I can see Maple as town.
Summary: This was useless and a complete waste of time because it didn’t really get me to change my mind. Maybe I need to be more openminded but I thought I was wishywashy enough on the D1 reads that I should focus more once I had material to work with. I don’t want to lock myself into certain views because I’m pretty sure it would be detrimental, so that’s why I tried this.
Anyway, I want to look more at PKR’s slot and his interaction with Marl (or at least where Marl mentioned him) in case there’s anything useful there. I won’t judge PKR off what Marl said, but I’ll look to see how PKR responded.
