Apologies for late post, was caught up in stuff and been a busy day in general. Also dead tired, but I felt I should contribute before passing out for the night.
Immediate first thought before anything: Bardiche, it is customary to at least give a fair amount of warning (declare intent to hammer) before actually dropping the hammer. Please keep this in mind in the future, because it sure looks like you were just dropping the vote without realizing it would end the day.
Flips are somewhat unsurprising, if disappointing. If I had to hazard a guess, I think we had a vig that gunned Delta and scum gunned OK knowing he wasn't one of their kind and likely had an alternate win condition, but I'll not dwell too much on that. As said before, at least Tom is now a confirmed townie with assured insight.
Collective thoughts on everyone right now:
AndrewRogue - Needs to post more.
Ciato - Ditto. Actually your post count really isn't that bad, but some more own thought and speculation would be nice. Mainly what you've been saying is caution and don't-do-this, which is fine but let's-do (or think about)-this is ALSO important.
Strago - I'm a little fed up of the "oh noes, people are rolefishing and speculating too much, that must obviously be scummy!" when 1) that was already explained thoroughly at the start, and 2) every other post I wrote afterwards contained something along the lines of "Stop speculating on Rat's role, his explanation was reasonable and further talk is derailing". Furthermore his few posts have really come off as parroting a bunch of really obvious statements with no real original content of his own, and he laid down a vote on Tom. While the cases were so clear and justified in Day 1 that this is somewhat understandable, it bothers me, more so in that he hasn't really been active.
Carthrat - While I can understand his unease on me, in my defense let me say that I had you clear off the potential lynch list rather early on after OK and Tom (and later, Delta) insanity came up; before that, literally the only other thing was LAL, which as you said yourself was dumb to pursue that early. Other than that... yeah, it was day 1. Speaking out my thoughts and laying out all potential cases is not necessarily a bad thing to do; furthermore, I was vocal afterwards about NOT having people waste time speculating/commenting on your role and lynch case, since it was so WIFOMey. As for Rat himself, he is still of course mysterious mystery.
QuietRain - Has been active, given good reasoning behind her votes, basically pro-active townie behavior. Can't really see much to criticize at the moment.
Bardiche - Came on the verge of offering content a lot of time but seemed to back off way too much under the pretense of not wanting to look scummy. Well okay dude, we all don't want to look scummy but we all also need to be not afraid to speak our minds. I think the whole ROLEFISHING OMG hit you too hard too, and frankly that annoys me to see it hold that much.
Elfboy - Similar to QR, except much more reluctant on the votes, using the justification that he didn't want to hop on trains that much. Eh, I think as town you really need to not get stuck on that train of thought too long, but so did I for a bit when I got derailed by the incessant role speculation on Tom. Neutral read right now. Ninjas/reads my mind too much, obviously a bad sign!
Meeple - Is Meeple and has been Meeple and will always be Meeple. Too much rampant speculation though, and Meepleness does not excuse that. Seriously, as I had posted previously in Day 1, running in circles thinking about possible role powers and whatnot is not going to get us anywhere with the guidelines Cid posted. However, he has been active and voted consistently. Also kinda neutral overall.
Shale - Has a RL shield to bar being able to read him too much in Day 1. Please be more active in post content when possible, lest you become an obvious representative of lurkerdom.
Jo'ou Ranbu - Posts way too little, and bothers me in that I don't think he really reads that heavily or carefully before he makes his comments, which ... don't have much substance outside of "yeah this is :psyduck: dumb", insert vague suspicion, that's... it.
Corwin - Started off hard and aggressive but presented a reasonable case that I fully agreed with. Again, Tom's case was so friggin' "what" that I have a hard time seeing OTHERWISE, although we should all do well to avoid tunnel vision. The fact that I agreed strongly with his logic on day 1 bias me somwhat in that regard, but thinking too hard about it, like the lynch in general, is WIFOM and will probably get nowhere.
Ashdla - Also needs to post more strong content in general and push more rather than following whatever seems to be the popular case at the moment. Is much more active than the likes of Snow/Strago though so she does not look quite so bad in this regard. Still.
Excal - Uh, honestly, it kinda makes me blink for a moment that you flew under the radar. I distinctly remember you posting and fairly often but not a whole lot about what you had to say aside from your flabbergastment at OK and Tom. BUt said flabbergastment is, once again, well understood! Such is the arghness of it all.
NINJA EDIT: As I post this Andrew posts and with relevant thoughts! Thanks, that makes me feel better 'bout you.
