Also, were you expecting someone to verify phyphor's claim?
Nobody can verify my claim but I assume you mean counter it.
My hesitancy to vote Simon was simply because I feel I'm being pressured into it by Mafia, but when it came to losing a town PR then I had to take the necessary step.
If Simon is innocent then Mafia can get away with sowing discord and having no D1 lynch, or we have to plead which means when one of them switches they've got plausible deniability.
I'm out of touch with site meta, but this at least used to be pretty common (honestly too common IMO). Definitely don't rule it out.
From experience elsewhere scum throwing another scum under the bus is unusual on Day 1, but can happen.
Also, that phyhor/hyper argument is super confusing and I don't know what to make of it other than they should both take a look at the setup again.
But I can't see why either of their weird opinions have a scum motivation (or a town motivation), I think they are just both confused.
I believe hyper's suggestion is:
If we assume I'm not the tracker than claiming tracker opens me up to a counter-claim by several roles, although if I were Mafia I'd be able to manage which those could be. If I am a Mafia then claiming a "safe" role is a good way to save myself from lynching.
If I'm Mafia then it's plausible that both the Mafia are simple goons, meaning that we're in C and as two of the three ways we could be in C would have only a single town PR if we're in C1 or C2 then the sole town PR couldn't unmask the lie.
If we were in C3 then, assuming I'm not really the tracker, real the tracker would be able to unmask me.
The claim, therefore, is that I'm mafia and my claim is a ruse and we're in C1 or C2.
My counter-proposal is that if we ran the same logic above then claiming Doctor would be better because it would force the doctor to reveal themselves, making them a juicy target.