Quoting is hard on mobile, so here's my reply to SA.
"Have you two both played with pubby before? How new is he? (Is "he" definitely the correct pronoun, BTW?)"
Yes, he's played 2 games in fds and I believe a dozen otherwise, and yes.
"I think it's entirely reasonable, knowing nothing about pubby, to assume that it could be a rookie attempt at number-fishing by scum, yes."
I agree. I want to hear ADK before saying more.
"(I get that your question was pointed at e, but I think I'm picking up votes for my position on pubby too, so I feel like it's helpful to clarify)."
It was helpful indeed.
Okay, now the rest:
If pubby is scum I highly doubt he tries something like this without running it by his scumbuddies on Night zero. Given the general level of experience in this game, chances are pretty good there's at least one experienced scum player in that QT who would have said "that's clumsy and it'll backfire."
But maybe not, who knows.
Don't like the hedge; otherwise I agree wholeheartedly with this post and it somewhat explains my read on pubby right now.
(Quote of Galz's wall post)
Galzria is scum for focusing on PRs too much. But where's the fun in voting scum early? All it does is give them a chance to look townie... looking at you, gkrieg!