So I tried to look back at the day one O/pops interaction with the information that O is scum. It was surprisingly unhelpful. He places a vote on page 15, when a lot of people are suspecting pops for his general playstyle and specifically for clearing SFS with no explanation given at the time. The pops wagon evaporates, lots of votes move towards jo and eventually Axxle1, but O just stay on pops the whole day. This keeps O's hands clean, which is probably why he did it. But I can see O doing this whether pops is town or scum, because pops is never really in serious danger of being lynched. It becomes a big WIFOM situation, because of course O knows that if he flips scum we're gonna look at his day one voting behavior, so what better than to park your vote on your partner. It's like free town points.
If we're asking the pops question, I also think someone should take a close look at his interactions with Galz, now that Galz is confirmed town.
Ok, This is going nowhere. I think I'm gonna lay off pops for a bit. My gut feeling today has him being scummy, but I'm just not finding rationale for that analysis.
I need to look back at CF. I can't remember his D1/beginning of D2 behavior at all, and all I stumbled upon while looking back over the pops wagon was jo saying he looked suspicious for contentless posting, and I feel like jo's said that about almost everyone at some point.
I am suspicious of everyone who could have hammered O but didn't. I sort of buy jo's explanation that he was trying to give O every opportunity to claim. I don't buy that pops "forgot" he wasn't voting for O, though I guess stranger things have happened. My reads on DSell and CF have been mostly town, but that may just be because I've never taken the time to analyze them. I don't completely understand while everyone is coming down so hard on CF right now. Let's tread carefully.
Sorry this post has been so stream-of-conscientiousness. I'm working on limited time and limited sleep, but I thought I should give my thoughts. Tomorrow is my day off, so hopefully I can contribute more productively.