Ash I read your post, but I am going to respond to one thing before anything else...
This is a really long paragraph to say "ash, you suck at this game because while you catch scum as town, we all think you are lying scum when you are town so fix it felix or gtfo."
If this is how you took that paragraph to be I apologize. In rereading I saw that it could be taken that way and that wasn't my intent. I think we have had the conversation in the past where I said that while your meta drives me crazy, that is ok... we have different play styles. Big deal. If everyone had the same play style this would be a pretty boring game. What I meant to say was that if you are changing your meta I fully support it. If you aren't, that is ok as well. But in this game, this one... Mean Girls... it looked like you are changing--well at least up until now--or that you are scum trying to semi-replicate it.
But what I absolutely was not saying was that you should either change or stop playing with us. No. I don't think that and don't want you to think that I think that way either. However, I still reserve the right to comment on your playstyle and to note that it has some draw backs... as does everyone's. Take mine! I try and be pro-town in a game and then everyone thinks.... Hmmmm... yuma is being pro-town, he must be scum! so let's ignore his suggestions about soft deadlines and such since he must be trying to manipulate everyone. That is a drawback. I haven't figured out a way to get around it... Your meta has drawbacks as well. That isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it is a thing. And I really do mean that it isn't just your responsibility to change it. Not at all. I meant what I said when us other players were responsible for letting the parts of your game in bankers distract us. It is what I was talking about in Pirates... where I let the emotion get to me rather than the logic. It is the same situation. I was emotionally distracted by some of the stuff you did and it led me to making bad decisions. The blame is on both of us.
But really that was all beside the point. And my main point was at the bottom which you addressed and if needed I'll comment on that in a separate post
But anyways. I apologize if I came across as a jerk. I dont' think I am a jerk, but these situations come up often enough that maybe I am and should work on that.