Why haven't you paid the same diligence to the other new replacement players, like Flushy?
It just feels like you're egging CM to change her opinions to what you think is correct, maybe because you want to get another supporter or something. It's just rubbing me the wrong way. And I didn't even feel insulted when you called us 'chucklefucks'.
'Flushy' jumped straight into the game and made an immediate good impression on me, he is also replacing a player I generally felt was Hope (as far as I remember).
Previous replacements joined when I was presumably busy with other leads, rather than bored to tears with mechanic talk, CM doesn't have that luxury.
Also, she's replacing a player that I already thought was Despair. Some of you seem to have forgotten that Barry "Despairiest of the Despairagons" Locke was suspicions before and beside his dwindling activity. His D1 was FULL of fluff posts, far more than anyone else with such a low post count (and you can add a bunch of pre-game posts as pointed out by Crab). I believed Barry was intentionally inflating his post count in a poor attempt to avoid suspicion (and it almost worked, I remember some analysis by Corn based on post count. Barry just scraped into "mid tier poster" and avoided the harsher analysis of the lower tiers).
But we can't expect CM to answer for the sins of her predecessor, so I asked for some simple reads. An easy one, a random one, a PR and a Kitty curveball. She flubbed the read on Terra (I don't see that as a Hope read personally, it's a null read
at best in my eyes) and didn't even attempt Kitty.
Now that's actually fine, as you pointed out (and I was obviously aware) she is new to the game and claims to still be playing catch up, so I was expecting a novel on each player, I was even expecting at least one "I don't know". But I wasn't hugely interested in her reads anyway, my plan was to apply pressure and gauge reaction, so I went ahead and pushed for more answers and what happened next? Barrychris McKenzielocke disappears again, fails to answer on her return, and when (re)prompted still ignores many of my questions. Note that I intentionally didn't vote her (despite the threat) to see if she would respond to pressure without a vote (generally a good sign in my eyes).
Was this unfair? Maybe. Harsh? Hell yeah. But nothing interesting comes from easy questions. This was a little test I devised, and in my eyes CM failed.
...I was also slightly curious as to who might defend her. Now this is by no means damning in itself, but I do find it interesting that you were the one to step forward...
I mean, much of my criticism for Zipped has been in his over-eager mechanic talk, and I believe a closer analysis of your posts would reveal an often similar play style...
