even though Joseph was playing a really scummy D1 game
We both didn't see it as scummy at the time
Well, that's partially true. I saw it as Joseph-like, and I usually don't find town!Joseph to be that pro-town. However, consider how someone who'd drawn scum with him probably felt, watching him drawing so much attention to himself... I feel like they would have been a bit miffed, and would possibly have been quite ready to bus him hard after the L-1 stunt.
Personally, I only really started to doubt my benefit-of-the-doubt strategy on him when it got to twilight, but we have to remember that for the other scum, they would have known about his scummy motivation all the way through, so when they read his posts, they would probably have been much more keenly aware of how they'd look in retrospect/on a later read-through of the game. So yes, I do stand by the statemeny that he was playing a scummy game.
(The thing that swung me around in twilight before his flip was that I set out to do a full enumerated commentary on all his in-game posts, just to point out where he could have helped town out more and made less of a target out of himself. However, in doing that, I realised that when set out all in one list, his play was just too empty. It wasn't till three quarters of the way through his game posts that he actually offered a real opinion on another player's alignment. So that made me change my mind enough not to post an enumerated list, and instead just to summarise briefly in my post at #351, which opened with "Assuming you're town", but really I wasn't sure that was a good assumption by then anyway.. I just felt like covering my bases given that I had just done all that reading, and I remember back when I was new and got mislynched a lot, it was helpful that Haddock gave me some pointers about what people reacted badly to in my playstyle).
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