Ok, I'm back. School went online today (something about bad weather, which I'm not really seeing!), so it was a little less busy than usual. I'll make multiple posts, quoting things that stood out to me, rather than a giant text-wall like I used to do. I know these smaller posts look like spam, but make life a lot easier for those who want to reply to what I'm saying (cue gkrieg, MiX, probably e, and maybe a few others), to quote my posts, and especially for those on mobile.
I did enjoy the discussion between faust and joth - it was very enlightening, albeit not very alignment-indicative (pretty much meta for both). I didn't find some of the responses (I know there was one that said something like "I agree with faust, by the way") to be somewhat pointless and not very helpful, but what can you do. It is good to know that we have different opinions of what is helpful to share and what is not - then as people are sharing different than what they normally would, we can start to parse out information about why. All-in-all though, typically day-1 fluff, to look engaged, offer opinions, and yet not move the actual scum-hunting forward. No town points and no scum points to anyone for that discussion. (And yes, I realize this post of mine calling it unhelpful is just as unhelpful!)