Kary.
Before that i want you to answer 2 questions:
1) Why did you say early game that seph wasn't scum based off the fact that scum wouldn't draw attention to themselves the way he did ?
2) What happened to that read over the course of the following days ?
(i don't want a novel here , just tell me how it progressed and how you now believe he is scum )
#1
Yeah why not
I don't think he'd be as... loud as scum
why this question?
In my experience, scum don't have a lot to gain by drawing attention to themselves, and creating paper trails that they might follow up on. Him being loud doesn't fit with him being scum on that basis. Note that this is mid Day1, though, and the lack of certainty in my response.
#2
On the other hand, if scum put themselves out there and people read them as town, they can use that to cruise, or to nudge town in a certain direction. A few of Seph's reads/stances were off to me D1.
Firstly, he thought me vs. July was TvT, and I wasn't convinced by his reasoning for that, or why he stuck by it early on.
Secondly, he was fine with Raz living as long as Raz followed him, which is a cop-out in terms of reading Raz, and it wasn't clear why Seph needed people to support him.
Thirdly, he wanted Soup dead... for reasons I at first didn't understand, and then thought were gross. His argument against Soup at the end of D1 is disgusting, not least because it constantly assumes Soup has scum intentions.
Since D1, his activity has continued to decrease. Some things still stick out, though;
His 'guilty' on July at the start of D2; I still don't know why he chose July, why he chose to soft-claim his result, or why he got confused at the start of the Day.
His push on you (FML) on the basis that you were bussing July, which just seemed dumb/empty in that it basically assumed you were scum then tried to argue from that, and on very little evidence
And his talk of indies over the past couple Days, along with his suspicion of me, both of which make me feel he is trying to set up for me to be lynched, as opposed of actually pushing me to see whether I am scum.
All in all, I can't see a clear train of thought from townSeph. I don't really see him pushing his reads, just agreeing with town consensus and not really getting involved. I don't know why he chose the targets he did, given his reads. I see him doing things I dislike, and then doing nothing to redeem them. I can't see the town intent.