This is fascinating. I wanna break down my reaction to maybe engage some conversation with everyone:
On the one hand, this is pretty original. Nobody else is digging that much into nin, much less voting him (or wasn't until Vere asked him a question, but that was just a conversation). There are a few ways to potentially read this:
-it's a legit scumhunting vote and townmalus thinks nin is scum
-counterpoint: so far I think it's hard to say this because malus hasn't really tried to drum up many votes and
-I feel like nin is not super likely to die today
-another counterpoint: while not impossible for scum to start trains, it's not unheard of, but
-why waste time on one that won't go anywhere, maybe? seems like wasted effort. so is it legit or performative? I'm really not sure here.
But what bugs me a bit is that malus started the day with pushing back on my townread of nin's entrance:
A few things here:
Zipped has been FAR more erratic than nin today, from both a meta angle and from a current-content angle. But malus settles on nin. As things have developed, how has nin really gotten scummier over the day vs Zipped? That's odd to me.
But that rehash thing is what I keep coming back to. I really don't know how much of malus's posts aren't a rehash themselves (I'm about to go through them as quickly as I can but I'm short on time) of things other people have said, outside the nin content.
and malus in general? offers vote data, which is both useful but can also be considered, at the root, a rehash-
and if he's rehashing in his own posts-
is he projecting?
Ugh, I really don't know if I have time to figure this out today and if I don't I don't know if I'll gamble my vote there.
Overall: One of the biggest things that stands out to me is that malus avoids some questions or just answers them sideways - very similar to Kalor, in fact, in terms of response. For instance, the Natiko read. He doesn't answer me directly but just snarks in response and it's really a very easy question: if you don't scumread me, why scumread Natiko without additional information than what we have right now? If you have a reason to disagree with that, it should be easy enough to answer directly. If you don't, but want to sow doubt anyway, you sidestep or deflect. malus impressively did both.
