I'm town and I don't really see how Ash's argument about mine and faust's alignments makes sense. It looks like partnerish to me.
I'm confused about what you are confused about.
The way you two have been going on, manipulating forum space and attention for way too long with your fight, is either stubborn and annoying town (SaAT) versus stubborn and annoying town (SaAT) OR staged as scum to gain town cred as if you were SaAT vs. SaAT.
That's how it looks to an outsider.
I mean, no one (and really, I mean NO ONE) tunnels someone like you are tunneling faust. What the heck? It's day 1 dude. No one is that certain of anything this early in a game unless they are 1) scum, or 2) N0 cop.
So, I have to come up with your motivation. And that leaves me with "staged for the purpose of gaining towncred" or "man he's just really being silly stubborn for shits and giggles."