Skintick, on 22 January 2014 - 12:48 PM, said:

Scum act like good townies, or they hide, or they slip up and make an obvious mistake, or or or. Yeah, scum don't have one MO, easy to argue, easy to see. Problem is that some behavior gets more weight than others and that being a good townie gets you a PI despite all subtle evidence to the contrary.
Moral: Suspect everyone you myopic motherfuckers.
Yes, I pushed Eldat to the exclusion of all else. I've found that especially on day one, failure to stick to your guns makes you "wishy-washy" and fails to bag you a head so to speak. It can be overdone, but the change in momentum was obvious and all crabby nagging at the end was futile spouting against a flock of the aforementioned.
I still think Eldat is scummy as hell, particularly in reaction to the pressure on him, first ignoring the votes until called on it (oh my, I wasn't paying attention. Sorry people) and then regurgitating real life troubles that may or may not be present, I think people use such drivel freely regardless of whether or not it's even remotely true. And for someone claiming to be helpful, he sure vanished quickly once the heat was on. I can just hear the behind the scenes whispering about laying low closely followed by, psst hey, you're building votes, speak up dude!
Other behavior worth mentioning, now that it is day two, is Kiliva for jumping on insignificant details just as momentum is gaining traction on Eldat (I was calling him on his BS at the time if you need a reference point). I think Kiliva wins a symp award for such behavior, especially in instigating a move from the Eldat train to the Rikkter train (earlier he had stated he liked that later less than the former in terms of cases). Why would a symp vote for their master (or if I am wrong, their partner)? Deniability. At the time, Eldat looked like the way of the future, and you'll notice how fast Kiliva jumped that ship when the opportunity presented.
Finally, IE is a fairly worthwhile target, although I am getting the feeling that he is more like Rikkter than Eldat in being careless with his forming of the Rikkter case in the first place, and thus hanging up a noose for himself as well. That is why I called him on his "easiest vote ever" and didn't end up making a case on him. Again, similar to Rikkter, careless vibe was stronger than the scummy vibe....
But maybe you all still need a few more days to think about good townie strongly correlates with scummy identification. That's ok. It's not like I'm new to this persistently wrong worldview or anything. Only way to make an ironclad case Kiliva is to ironclad the idiots that ignore it. In the meantime:
Vote Eldat
Instigating?
Jumping on insignificant details? How about not doing that very thing you've just been accused of doing yourself - i.e. focusing on one thing and one thing only to the exclusion of all else.
You're just mad because I teased you, and you are a touchy little one.
I am tempted to vote Eldat just so we can see how wrong you will likely turn out to be.