Originally Posted by
yzb25
Literally one page from the end. I just wanna have a ramble about Mattzed's ISO, before I forget all the thoughts invading my brain.
Whad's "flip-flopping" on Iced is the most natural thing in the world. It's obvious Whad was thinking "shit, I can't understand Iced's push on me from any perspective but "he's opportunistically trying to kill me". I just don't understand his reasoning, but I know we've had a lot of drama in the past and I don't wanna be too quick to judge the guy and repeat past mistakes. Man, if I don't trust my reasons for scumreading him, I guess I should place him as a nullread? Nah, fuck it, I'll vote him. Oooh, actually, outside of this strategy thing Iced has said some towny things."
I even directly asked Whad "Do you think Iced is a scum pushing you opportunistically" and he tried really hard to give a nuanced, balanced response of "well I don't wanna jump the gun because I wanna try and understand the guy". If Whad was scum trying to discredit Iced's push, that was the perfect chance to go "yes that's exactly what I suspect! Here's 10 lines about why he seems opportunistic!". This crucial interaction got a tiny-ass mention in Matt's ISO.
Look, I agree that, even if it is page 7, Whad's over-reliance on meta to determine the alignment of Mesk, Crypt and Titus is bad. That said, it's not like relying on metareads for PAGE FUCKING 7 is some egregious act. It's also natural to see the first few SJ posts and say "ooh that doesn't look like the kind of shit scum would do" and then later see that SJ has followed it up with jack-shit and "reassess".
---Honestly, I don't scumread Mattzed for all this misrep. I think there's just been some fundamental misunderstandings going on. I'm going to try reading that again at some point to try and empathize with / understand how those misunderstandings could develop.---
But still, Mattzed painting Whad's mind-changing as him lying about his reads is absurd. There's a consistent, followable development to his thought process. I know Crypt wanted me to give more thoughts on Whad's reads, so hopefully this inadvertently functions as a response to that too.