if @hbotz is scum, I would probably guess @ian is town. I think the converse is true: ian town implies hbotz is scum. I'm not sure that ian scum implies hbotz town, though. I do think scum wouldn't make helping each other this obvious with daychat, but I could be wrong there.
And rereading his reasoning on ian, hbotz said that ian wouldn't force the syntax based "scumslip" on me without following it up. But ian did follow it up: just not well. That kind of tosses out his reasoning on ian making any sense.
His reasoning on ian being town is that ian didn't follow-up on what he viewed as me making a scumslip. But ian did, and he continued/continues to push it. So, either hbotz is town and bad at reasoning/missed it (which could mean ian scum or ian town), hbotz is scum and ian is town which hbotz knows through TMI, or they're both scum with hbotz defending ian.
hbotz is definitely scum and we need to look through his interactions. I was thinking osiris scum at first too, but I found some good posts. Will do my SCSF and Osiris walkthroughs next.