Didds, I take your point about reaching few conclusions. In general I'm someone who hates risking being wrong - it's often difficult for me to come to opinions about things that I can't have a relative degree of certainly about. Mafia to me is a game of probabilities; although sometimes you have certainty in the form of Night results, most often you exile whoever is the most likely to flip scum. Apparent certainty has always been a scumtell to me. Which is why, as I indicated early Day 1, I don't know what to do with the likes of faust and MiX confidently stating someone's alignment, particularly with little or no given reason. I'm never going to match that level of confidence, and I don't think it would be helpful for me to feign it, so I feel like I'm never going to be as persuasive as them. Which means it doesn't really feel like it matters if I come to conclusions or not. It also doesn't help that exiles generally happen while I'm asleep, which means I haven't really had the opportunity/responsibility of actually being there to help make the final decision.
As is evident from Day 1, faust's style of not answering questions clashes with my style of asking questions. Largely my distrust of faust stemmed from "You could be scum, and man do I not want you to win if you are." Which is not a good reason to actually exile someone. It was feeling like it was getting to the point of faust needing to be called to account for being wrong all the time, but then he started being right. At some point I thought maybe I should trust MiX's unfailing read, as someone who recently has played more than me, and is probably better at understanding peoples metas. After the Swowl flip, I was like, "Yeah, they're probably right", especially since you had tied the strengthening of your read to the Swowl flip.
I've been finding this game that the more closely I look at any individual, the more I think they're Town, which makes it hard to conclude that someone is scum. Day 3 my gut told me that iguana was hella Towny for the most part and e was null at best, but my head told me that the Cop claim was probably legit. faust's confidence in both directions muddied things for me further. Day 4 the general confidence on Swowl, particularly from faust, made me uncomfortable. I felt like if he flipped Town we were in real trouble, but no one seemed to care.