Yeah, like I said, 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. Is hbotz good? Would he miss something like that as town? @sdadasdas @wolfy @magicmagininja @anyone else who's played with hbotz, I want your opinion on that too. It could be because town ian