Let's talk about that not-lynching-lurkers-except-Mail-Mi thing.
That is grossly misrepresenting my position. Lynching a lurker and a lurker-lynch is not the same thing. The first means that you have reasons to believe a given lurker is scum. The second means lynching a lurker because lurkers are harder to read. I
never proposed to lynch mail-mi because he was lurking. But the original case on Awaclus was very, very close to that, so I was against it, because it gives scum a free lynch with no accountability.
The final real-day of D1, you formulated a case on Awaclus that was better than a lurker lynch. I recognized that it was good, but I asked for some time to mull it over (and back then you were of the same opinion than me). Then the activity level of the thread exploded, and it became clear that Awaclus was going to be lynched right there (after your post
here, there was no other possible way the day would end).
I could not follow all that while at work, and that was bothering me. I wanted the time to read Awaclus's posts, to see if I agreed with your case. I wanted the time to check if Awaclus was soft-claiming a PR. I wanted the time to analyze the wagon on Awaclus, to see the reasons people were voting for him, and if we could hold them accountable. It greatly annoyed me that I couldn't get involved in the development of the game. So I argued against an Awaclus lynch, because it seemed like the only way to get the time to do all that. And well, that arguing was rushed, because I was at work.
Now I have to reread D1 (not now
now though) to reevaluate my reads.
But I'm still willing to hold it against him, maybe I'm not fair, whatever. Deliberate lurking doesn't seem that implausible to me.
There's a difference between the plausible deniability of "he didn't post anything at that time, maybe he was deliberately lurking!" and "I checked his activity on the forum, and I
know that he deliberately chose to not post anything at that time!". The second is much more incriminating, but requires a specific reading of information not even available on the game thread. I am not ok with that.