So I am home on a computer so here is my larger post on faust:
The first instance of me noticing faust occurred
here as others have pointed out. This reads list just didn't seem very fausty and I also felt it was too early to be useful and thus more likely to just be something that I could see scum!faust fabricating to appear to being useful and active.
The relevant part of that quote is here (and edited):
Roadrunner7671 - only empty posts. Not posting for a while, but suddenly around when called out on it. Scummy.
gkrieg13 - has gkrieg done anything yet? Null.
Haddock - his defending me is a bit weird. White knighting? Slight scum.
Jimmmmm - yuma has a point. Slight scum.
In that he has some scum reads: RR, Jimmmmm and Haddock (eventually votes for him). I include gkrieg because he then votes for gkrieg next:
I feel like some people need some motivation to contribute... Hydrad, Ichi, gkrieg have been absent.
Out of those, vote: gkrieg because there's no vote on him yet, and I'm a Berlin hipster.
The issue I have with this isn't that faust votes for a lurker to motivate him to participate. It is that he does so when he says he has goodish scummy reads on other players. That is my issue, foresaking scummy reads to vote for a null read when there are other methods to encourage participation (asking for a prod which faust in fact does). This makes it seem even more likely that those so-called reads above are forced and fake because he isn't prioritizing them. It has nothing to do with changing reads like faust said later, because the read on gkrieg at this point hadn't changed. It was a vote on a null lurker.
This null lurker vote then changes exactly one post after gkeirg comes into the game:
I think one of the new guys is scum but I don't want to lunch them today
As you say, Scummy McScum.
No it isn't just a null vote it is a "scummy mcscum" vote, which I am guessing is stronger especially as faust then starts to hound people for doing it. And the thing is.... faust is accusing gk of doing exactly what he did: having scum reads but not voting for them...
Which I agree is really quite scummy. In fact I would say that gkrieg's is scummier as faust's reads were early on in the game, whereas gkrieg's, one would assume, are more solid.
The large post for faust's case against gkrieg just seems like justification for voting as the only real scummy thing I think that is there.
So I am ok continuing to vote for faust, but I can see why gkrieg is scummy, I just don't necessarily like the way that faust got there... which isn't what I thought I was going to say at the end of this bit, but there you have it.