ash, don't kill yourself.
I don't understand what your PM or flavor could possibly say that would make masons claiming better.
Trying to trick scum into fake-claiming masons is not likely to work. I think the only scum likely to take that size of risk is you. But, it is an issue that needs to be considered. Then you pointed out precisely the problem with it...if town-masons claimed now, scum could just bide their time hunting the doc until day3 (thus never losing a NK, because doc should protect the 3 "IC"s) when we lynch the masons for a loss, because masons that live for 3 days are clearly scum (according to you).
Or maybe we shouldn't assume living claimed masons are scum, then scum should claim masons, and then they get by because their claim is so far out there. Would scum really do it? Have they ever done it? You're the fake-claiming scum, mostly scum just claims VT, and is done with it.
I get that Galzria inflamed you with his arguments. You inflamed him too. You've both talked about the other as though he's incapable of higher thought. I know I've said similar to you (ash), and you were offended by it (outside of a game). But you've used "being offended" as a scum-technique. Which makes things even worse, because now when you are upset by someone you have no real recourse to take. If you claim to be upset, it just looks like you being scum. You've manipulated with your emotions, and so they can't be viewed as serious.
My suggestion is that you drop it, because you have different views on claiming than others. You should know this sufficiently to not be offended when someone finds your views anti-town. So, stop being offended.