LMAO using mafiascum as a reference on how to play
You're right that you don't have to defend your style to anybody and that people play differently, but if you're going to imply that your style of play is better (which you did, several times during the game), then you also have to be prepared to hear arguments that it's actually worse.
I understand very well how reaction and intent work. But you can test for reactions and determine intent while also explaining yourself. And let's even assume that not explaining yourself results in better accuracy of reads- it still remains that not explaining yourself means that you're never going to actually convince anyone of your reads. Guessing who the scum are is only one part of the game. The other, larger, part of the game is convincing the other plebeians who can't catch scum with 100% accuracy like you that your reads are correct.
You're right that not everybody would ever play like you though (it wasn't a great way to express what I was thinking).
Also wrt outing townreads:
1) Outing a townread shouldn't mean that it's harder to catch them if they're actually scum... Actually, I could argue that if a scumteam member is being publicly townread, they're much more likely to feel complacent and slack off than if nobody outs townreads on them. So in that case it would be actually easier to deduce that someone is just faking the intent, because their effort wanes as soon as people townread them. Reads aren't static; you can change your previous townread to a scumread if you explain yourself properly.
2) You can catch scum through PoE, so arguing about townreads does in fact help you catch scum. Additionally, if you explain your townread on Player A, a Player B who is scumreading Player A is more likely to consider another avenue of option, and scumread someone correctly. Therefore even if your personal scumhunting efficiency decreases a little, you're improving the collective town's scumhunting efficiency (assuming Player B is also town, I suppose). So if you die, this might, you know, be helpful. They might not listen to you, but then that's their fault for being stubborn, not your fault for not even
trying to convince them otherwise.
3) Sure, if you defend someone who's not good at defending themselves, they could be a potential mislynch later when you're not around. Alternatively, if you don't defend them, they're a mislynch right now. I'll take a potential mislynch over a definite mislynch any day of the week.
Additionally, if all townies out their townreads, then for scum to blend in, they have to out townreads as well. This firstly increases the amount of fake content they need to generate, and secondly, it cuts down on mislynch options for them. Yes, you can change townreads to scumreads, but for scum to do that, they now have to BS more stuff than if they just had to case somebody who they weren't previously townreading.
EDIT: wow this post was long probably nobody will read all my effort now I know how Skypal feels
