After seeing spiritbears' vote on Shraeye I decided to go back and read him a little bit. There's some scummy stuff in there.
His first position is finding Ashershy scummy for tunneling Raerae. That's fine and good, I found Ashersky scummy for it too initially, but he continues to have Ashersky as a scum read and doesn't acknowledge the possibility ever that Ashersky was simply doing it for the reaction, and not because he found Raerae scummy. He also voted Ashersky for "tunneling Raerae", when Ashersky was posting on a lot of topics, and not really pushing in anyway for Raerae by building a case. Later on, after no one but Mail-mi has voted Ashersky, he voices frustration that no one else has considered Ashersky as scum in #380.
In #254, he states an approval of an opinion EFHW put forth on theory, saying that this isn't the first time he's found himself agreeing with her.
In the midst of the EFHW-Shraeye argument, in #397, he places a vote, with little explanation, but it's clear that he agrees with EFHW, and not with Shraeye. In #409, he asks Theorel if he's okay with Shraeye pushing a weak case (so this is his reason for voting, it seems). He says that Shraeye comes across as scummier as EFHW, but he hasn't really said why, and he hasn't said why he believes EFHW but not Shraeye, other than the fact that he doesn't like that Shraeye is pushing a weak case (#409).
Then, when Nkirbit asks what the argument is about, he responds "very little" -- but not little enough for him to have placed a vote over it!
Basically, I think Spiritbears placed votes on two people, hoping to get people to join in. Initially, there was the vote on Ashersky, who did something that would read very scummy from most people -- the vote for Raerae with no explanation. Even after Ashersky explaoined what he did, SB still continued to find him scummy.
The second, and more scummy to me, is the vote on Shraeye and the interaction with EFHW. It's possible this vote simply came from his town read on EFHW, but that still shouldn't automatically lead to a scum-read on Shraeye, either. The impression I get is that the scum-read on Shraeye comes from simply disagreeing with someone he finds towny, which reads forced and unlike true scumhunting to me. When pushing the case to another (Theorel), his main explanation for finding Shraeye scummy is that he "pushed a weak case" -- something that Shraeye himself has admitted to. It's early D1, of course the case was weak! That doesn't make Shraeye scum, and I think jumping on him for that, when given the opportunity, is the scummiest thing I've seen yet.
Vote: Spiritbears
PPE: I see he has disagreed on my assessment of EFHW vs. Shraeye -- but not really explained why, again. SB, besides Shraeye's case being weak, why do you have a scumread on Shraeye and a townread on EFHW?