I suppose I'll claim at L-1, and when available. I defended myself in my previous post, and I don't think there is anything more I can say about it.
Here's a link to my defense
While I'm at it, I kinda want to make a case on chairs. This whole game (i know he has been vla, but still) he seems to mostly be sheeping other people or voting without giving much reason or just because he thinks he should. Right before he went VLA, he put down a vote for TA (post #673), seemingly just choosing one of the two in the TA/SB debacle. Granted, he did follow up with it later, but I think he could have taken his time and thought up some reasonable answers to why he voted the way he did, during his long absence. What I'm saying is, it doesn't sit well with me that he was willing to throw down his vote when he thought he was up against a deadline with no stated reasons for his vote other than (paraphrasing) "well I need to pick someone from this argument, so vote: Twistedarcher".
He does the exact same thing again when he had 3 wagons to choose from:
Chairs, you should really get your vote down.
It's honestly been pretty hard for me to decide, but deadlines wait for no man, and I suppose I should pick one of the three viable lynches, so...
Vote: Eevee
Again with the "well I just have to pick someone, I don't have a good reason, but here's my vote".
he again comes back later when someone calls him out on it, and unvotes while he thinks about it. But still, the "well I just need to get my vote down without any reason" mentality feels scummy to me.
Other than his voting habits, his paper claim doesn't give him towncred in my book. Anything that appears to be easy towncred I would attribute with something scum would be willing to do. I don't think an unpressured claim neccesarily means scum in my book.
Additionally, when he does posts his reads, it is after most people have posted theirs and seems to be taking many bits from other people's reads with not as many original thoughts. I don't have data to back this up, but this is just my general impression. I could be completely wrong. but still.
I understand that chairs is probably not going to be the lynch for today. I'm not even sure that he is the right lynch, especially if we are giving xerion the chance to go through with his plan. So I'm not going to vote chairs. But be on the lookout for him in the future.
PPE: there were 19 posts made while I was writing this, so I'll go back and re-read those again and see what I think about all that and reply again