ActionDan here. I’m going to give a brief overview of my thoughts which concern just what’s been posted on the Mafia451 forum. My partner has been going over the CD side of things so they may have supplementary material that includes a broader context.
I have townreads of various degrees on Arete/Bepwei/Quin/Eric/Icibalus/Wisp/Geyde with Valerie being plain town.
I am tempted to include Marshall in there for his emphatic defense of Quin but that’s also the only thing that was not NAI in his posting as far as I can tell.
As for Quin, I am missing the context of how the votes played out “N1” near deadline but if you are scum with a town counterwagon at around 7-8/11 votes… you will find a way to vote your CW. Whether you think its gamethrowing or not (And I for one don’t), not voting your CW in that situation is not something town and scum do equally often. Secondly, Quin’s posts today look quite town to me.
I did look at the Bepwei green check message via the end of day/night links in the OP. That obviously can’t be taken seriously. Bepwei’s tone today and his reponses to pressure read town to me regardless. The only 2 questions I have is why he thinks there’s some mechanical anti-claim thing in this game (which I understand multiple people questioned but I don’t remember being addressed) and how he views people in his “town core” that aren’t presumably “lock town” like ash. Usually a town core is made of people that you and others in the town core can be very reasonably sure are all town with almost no room for doubt.
I would like the members of the “masonery” to confirm they are in fact in a masonery or a neighborhood, because the flavor that Arete provided isn’t conclusive to me. Just PM the mod if you’re unsure.
The rest of my townreads generally have displayed instances of critical thinking, tone, and scumhunting all within a townie’s parameters as far as I can tell.
I can’t say I outright scumread anyone, but I am wary of Zone and I do think Bananas’ vote on Ari was scummy.
Zone has a good amount of posts in the thread but I’ve yet to townread a one of them and I don’t see the questions in them go anywhere or really serve a scumhunting purpose. I admit I was colored pretty early with the first post directed at Sunbell because it was quite strange to see a question being posed to her about Eric along the lines of “well, why’s he not confirming the neighborhood?” as a response to “Hi, I’m sunbell!”. It felt like offloading shade.
As for Bananas vote, at its core, its over justified.
Even were that true about the propensity to take down big players, he’s not “getting arete” with a single vote and no support + plenty of people townread arete. It’s a very weak add on.
Additionally bananas hasn’t done anything else of note and my Hydra partner informed me that he hasn’t done anything in the CD thread either of importance aside from parking his vote.
I think this is a good place to start.
VOTE: deadbananas