Keep in mind that an actual vote, made to JD, is not changeable anymore.
I know. It's purely an indication of intent.
Look, Skystone, it's not that you're sus to me for being aggro. It's how you aggroed onto Zinger. Zinger took time to point out why you were arguing in bad faith, and given that Zinger had a right to take exception to CL's approach, his take on CL did not differ from you commenting a policy lynch on Zinger for practically similar reasons. It was hypocritical of you.
Fast forward to you throwing defense CL's way and you come out sus. CL doesn't have to be scum (in my perspective) for your defense to be questionable. What mattered was CL batting at Zinger and you encouraging that through your defense.
Except that I
never defended CL. From the onset, I specified the scope of my argument: that Zinger's crusade on Lunch did significant harm to town and undermined the game. Even Zinger would not (I hope) contest the the basic truth of these claims -- he merely considered the sacrifice to be justified given the level of insult he felt (as he more or less admitted). In no regard, moreover, does either claim pertain to Lunch in terms of how scummy or not he was, nor does either constitute a defense of him except insofar as "being rude" is not diagnostic criteria for anyone's alignment.
The two cases (Zinger's position on CL and my position on Zinger) are, furthermore, materially different. Zinger objected to a player being rude; I objected to what was, from my perspective, a player abandoning, to the disadvantage of
everyone, the basic social contract that governs these kinds of games. The two approaches cannot be correlated merely because of the fact that they are both "policy" lynches in the much same way that we cannot, for instance, call all economic policies bad because some particular economic policy (say, nepotistic corporatism) is bad. Zinger, certainly, had a right to take exception, but there are avenues of resolutions for these sorts of problems -- such as, say, working it out through a mod -- that neither threaten to wreak havoc in the game thread, nor otherwise happen to undermine our pursuit of scum.
Like, it's perfectly reasonable (and totally fair) to suggest that I took a pretty hard stance on Zinger both Day 1 and 2. It is likewise
reasonable -- if, I think, wrong -- to reject that stance for one or another set of reasons. It is, however, substantively incorrect and bordering on intellectually dishonest to suggest that my critique of Zinger's individual response pertains to Lunch as a player. Lunch being rude or not does not equal Lunch being scum or not.
Also, I very rarely defend my scum buddies. Just ask Lunch.