So, to the problem with Jabberwock, I'll first take a look at the
case on King X. It's very stretchy, especially as it is built around a
lot of RVS votes that are being looked into far too much. To bring the case to its core:
- Bandwagoning on easy lynches
- OMGUS'ing (minor point; occurred during RVS)
- Backpedalling
- Randomly unvoting and not revoting elsewhere
- Contradiction
I've bolded all the points based on RVS and voting patterns of the RVS stage, and King X explained (perhaps not the best) that Jabber misinterpreted his post as a contradiction here:
You missed the entire point of the post. If you read it carefully you would notice I said that I have no reason to vote, not you, not anyone else, just me. I didn't think SS was panicky, and I also didn't think PMJ's post was unjust. Where's the contradiction?
Of course, all cases coming out of RVS have to being from somewhere, so the weak case isn't the problem. Rather, it is very scummy that Jabber
continued to push. He ignores much of King X's points, and grasps straws as shown in his focus on RVS and when he contrasts RVS votes to King X's later votes (which are not the same) in the "major contradictions". I think what King X said sums up the King X case pretty well:
Shame on me for not voting randomly, but also shame on me because I finally voted randomly? This is literally the same argument bb tried to make last game because I wasn't playing optimally to your standards.
Normally Jabber is a bit more logical than this - he won't normally push for such flimsy cases. I think the tunneling/pushing of Jabberwock is him as scum afraid that dropping the case would invoke "backpedalling" accusations. In reality the opposite is true, as town players drop cases quite often, and this assumption is one that many-a-scum make when trying to "appear town". In fact, it is a trap I've fallen into multiple times as scum.
The other thing is that most of Jabberwock's posts are RVS, or either completely or virtually completely focused on King X, with only a small portion actually interested in other cases or discussions (another indication). From those, there is another thing that in particular suggests a mafia alignment, which is this:
@Everyone on the Sky wagon: Sky isn't scummy. Stop pushing the easy lynch.
I can't remember if someone has already mentioned this, but this is the type of comments mafia tend to make, especially if the accused is actually town. It is an effortless and pretty much reason-less way to defend a lynch. If both are a scum, it defends a scumbuddy without being too vocal, and if the accused is town, it gives the towncred scum jump on. It's also a
little hypocritical, as King X pointed out when giving his defense.
