robz is probably town, unfortunately. in my time in mafiascum i've encountered two lurkers: thinkbig, not_mafia.
thinkbig: town. gave heaps upon heaps of "i promise i'll catch up guys," never did.
[an unrelated takeaway: radiantcowbells, scum in that game and
most cunning manipulator at the time, replaced in and hammered him 30min afterward; we'd had him at L-1, and i was voting him for pressure reasons; i thought the behavior was shitty and i wanted him to be at l-1 when he gave his reads. but rc hammered him before that happened, and he was scum, and we all shrugged it off, because it seemed too scummy to be scum, and he had a
reason that kinda made sense in spite of not scumreading the guy very hard and having replaced in shortly before. not congruent to the pps thing but perhaps you can imagine why i'm concerned about him.]
[there's a lot of parts about RC's scum play and others' on MS that this forum could learn from. don't tell him i said that]
and
not_mafia: scum, you wouldn't know he was lurking if he weren't doing it, if that makes sense. just said a couple things sporadically that were sometimes game-related, made it apparent he just decided to lurk that game. no mention of it, nothing.
i haven't
really looked at any of robz's pre-break games (briefly for M92), and ww (i think) who suggested he has done it for towncred can assess the validity of this, but i think he's one to feel especially shitty to do it the way he's doing it now; if he's scum in this game, it gets to the point where it feels more like you're lying to people rather than players in a game. so it's a lame trust-tell type thing but i think it's likely to be effective.
a bit irrelevant to the stuff going on now but it's a think that i can say