I knew GoldIron was inactive, but damn. Two posts and his last post was on page 4:
Post #30
Vote: Canik
Since he is owner of the town, he must be helping to cover up the corruption. Maybe, the city signs are codes for some shady things going on.
Post #74
I was away for a while for like 2 days.
My defense: I'm a new player, there no reason I can be a scum. I don't even know why people are saying scum instead of mafia.
Lord MK wouldn't just give a new player a difficult role to play.
I'll first start off by saying that I was never the biggest fan of lynching inactives in the sense that provided they're town, it gets scum off the hook scot-free. It's also easier to vote an inactive and be able to keep suspiciousness down on the basis that 'it's an inactive townie, he's doing us no good anyways'. While that is true to an extent, and there are times I'm somewhat down with that, I also feel we have better lynch candidates as well this early in the game. That said, with lynching being our only true power as town, if he's not helping town, it's better than a no lynch. Later in the game, nothing lets scum get away easier than inactive townies.
Getting to the posts on hand, some of it's already been touched on. The second post is your typical newbie defense. Already been explained multiple times that being new has nothing to do with anything. Although considering how inactive GoldIron has seemingly been inactive as a whole*, I'm reading it more as newbie jitterbugs.
The first post was also touched on briefly, but not necessarily GI's role in it (iirc). GI was the third vote in the "impeach Canik" vote train. One could argue this as bandwagoning. There's also the fact it was only hours after Frigid's vote. Even though I kind of gave Frigid crap for it, I don't necessarily think they're connected.
OOC - Can anyone attest to how inactive GoldIron has been as a whole? Don't think it's possible to search nations if you don't have one yourself so can't speak to inactivity on that front. I did see he only has 18 posts on the forums though. Can't attest to when his last overall post was with limited forum access.