Right now my tentative scumread is Liopoil, because he hasn't unvoted or voted everyone else, like he said he would, and for the bit of hyperbole in his first post. Having a cop is great, but having one that can't be protected isn't super-awesome.
7 people is not very many. to win, we MUST lynch both scum before mislynching twice, unless our doc stops the kill TWICE. but we've got some PRs to help us!
our cop is super-awesome. they should investigate scum and report back so we can win and stuff.
our doc isn't too powerful. If he manages to block the kill once, all we get is an extra night of investigations after no lynch. If he blocks it twice we get an extra mislynch, which is awesome, but unlikely. Plus he can only save VTs, not the cop.
Also, scum got to talk during the confirmation stage. It would be good strategy to put a couple votes on some players when it was easy and then say "whoops!".
I get what you're saying with the voting thing, even though I disagree. Players know that leaving these votes on is scummy, and we can say "scum would be more careful". But scum know we would say this, so they can leave it on.. but maybe they would know we would do this. At best, it's a bunch of WIFOM for me.
As for the cop thing, that's really a stretch for me. It agree that the cop isn't super great, since he can't be doctored, and Lio is exaggerating, but why is that scummy at all?