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Scumreading for Noobs: Types of Easy to Spot Evils
By Craig
This is just a quick guide of very common styles and personalities that are typically associated with people who are bad at playing evil roles. This is scumreading.
   
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Scum Reading Warning
This guide is not one hundred percent definitive, not everyone acts the same. Alot of the time people who are terrible at evil will express these personalities but there are times when townies will as well. Every rule has its exception. You must take these playstyles and use them to scumread based on other parts of the players personality.

With a couple hundred hours of frusturation one day you too will be the Saviour of Salem™.
During Discussion
Silent Bob
  • Never says anything the entire game (ocassionally will if spoken directly to
  • Pretends to be AFK
  • Probably not even paying attention let alone playing the game and instead watching TSplayground
Debby Downer
  • Spins Arsonist.
  • Complains about how certain roles like Arsonist and Vampire are too hard to play.
  • Really bad at lying.
  • Ends up being put on the post because they talk about their evil role too much,
The Real Spy
  • Claims a role that is impossible for them to prove with real townies. These are roles are complex ones such as Ret, Jailor, Transporter or even Mayor.
  • Has a relatively small fraction of players avalible to confirm these players wills I.E. one maf claims trans the other two claim trans'd
The Casual
  • Doesn't think any mode outside Ranked matters.
  • Makes no effort to show they're not evil.
  • Makes no effort to paticipate in discussions, or convince town they're one of them.
  • Likely to not do their nightly actions consistently if at all.
  • Even if they spin a townie roll they might as well be evil.
Totally NE
  • Toxic
  • Pretends to be roles they're not for example: a WW pretending to be Executioner.
  • Acts incredibly obnoxious so people think they're an Executioner or Jester.
  • Typically has a high kill count by endgame due to players ignoring them.
  • Almost always gets the Vigilante lynched after being shot by them.
  • Spams, alot.
  • New players who actually spin Jester actually try to get lynched this way.
The highschool drop out
  • Bad English.
  • Has no understanding on how even the games' most basic roles work.
  • Doesn't read the patch notes.
  • Guilties good roles despite having solid proof of role and innocents evil roles despite having no proof of role.
  • Gets upset easily if you call them out on their terrible decisions.
  • Probably a Jester.
When Being Voted Up and or Lynched
The Not So Suave Liar
  • This player has a well thought out alibi, better then the towns even. But they cannot calm down.
  • Overuse of caps-lock, insults or threats to report town players for gamethrowing if they guilty
  • Typically has legitmate evidence of another player being from an opposing evil faction, do not ignore this information
  • May count roles.
Silent Bob but if You Had A Gun to His Head
  • Only speaks when on the Defense portion of the game.
  • Quick to say "exe" and only that.
  • Types very ltitle, and takes too much time to post a will.
  • May disconnect or or snitch on members of the same faction.
"Fine kill your (insert important role here)..." - Stupid Kid, 2017
  • Almost never has a will.
  • Typically claims doctor, ret, psychic due to how viable they are.
  • All lowercase letters, no punctuation and harsh misspellings as they try to push out a role and defense.
The Masochist
  • Does not care if you lynch them.
  • Warning: May be a frusturated townie trying to prove a point.
  • Evil that doesn't care about dying
  • Possibly trying to size up and intimidate the town, this strategy is typically done to genuinely convince the town taht if they guilty they'll be killing a Jester or an important town role.
The Abstainer
  • Always slow to vote.
  • Never votes innocent or guilty.
  • Typically a silent bob.
  • Distant cousin of the guy who ALWAYS innocents obviously evil players.
6 Comments
leafo_fufo 24 Jun, 2021 @ 7:13pm 
never googling ts playground after those comments.
Khaled 8 Dec, 2017 @ 4:41pm 
jester * XD
Craig  [author] 8 Dec, 2017 @ 3:47pm 
whos juster
Khaled 8 Dec, 2017 @ 9:02am 
that help juster XD
Meta-Penguin 29 Nov, 2017 @ 7:54am 
I like the TSPlayground
Wora 27 Nov, 2017 @ 10:00am 
You made me google TSplayground. I hate you for this.


Good guide though. I'm rather new to this game but I have already seen many of these stereotypes, some people are very predictable.