Is it more powerful to create two ICs using the Neighbourizer, or to out a definite scum? I'm guessing the former, but I'm not totally convinced.
For people picking a scumread to neighbourize, then presumably the expectation is that you die in the night, thus revealing that your top pick was evil. In the meantime, scum gets an NK. Then on D3, town presumably uses the lunch to take out the exposed scum, and then at night the remaining scum get another NK. That's quite an expensive way of performing a one-for-one trade, though it might be worth it to take a strong scum player (i.e. faust) out of the game.
For people picking a townread, presumably we're looking at having two ICs, like masons, except that one of them can be specifically picked to be a strong player. I'm never that convinced about the utility of having a separate communication channel, but having two players who can't possibly be scum is pretty huge.
I like gkrieg's track record with reads in general (he was picking faust out as scum in the speccy in the game where faust and I were scum), and he's not posted enough for me to have made up my mind about his alignment, so I think he's going to be my top pick. I need to re-read him to be sure, but tonight I'm organising a work social, so I'm not sure how much reading time I'll have. My second pick is probably faust, though e is vocal and involved enough that I might swing that way, depending on how my faust re-read feels.