Pretty simple logic here, I contest the following:

1) Of the 7 remaining non-prob-town players, though the prob-town's are of varying degrees of prob-town-ness, 3 of them are likely scum, none have sent up any scummer flags, and I'd rather kill off a claimed vanilla then a claimed role or a non-claimed player, all things being equal, as it represents the same chance for the same possible gain but a tangible difference in possible loss.

2) While I can somewhat excuse ?'s reveal, I do not believe it is possible Scott could even have been aware we were waiting for his Character Claim without having seen ? be chastised for RCing. Regardless of the reason, that was an anti-town act.

3) We have discussed, even recently, the downside of unsolicited vanilla claims ad nauseum, any of the possible reasons for him having claimed anyway are anti-town. "Didn't see it" = not paying enough attention, which is anti-town, and that is the least sinister option.

4) While I totally understand being RBIRL, this is simply a game and RL always takes precedence, it is nevertheless generally in our best interest to favor active players over inactive, realistically Scott is not currently able to play at full tempo, all things being equal, he's a logical choice, frankly, we need the game to move on, win or lose it has now been approximately 70 days since the last game ended and this is day 2, that is too long, and if anything I'd rather keep the heavier posters in play just to ensure the game begins proceeding at a more normal pace.

So there you have it, I could point out that our pool of non-pro townies makes him likely 3 in 7 to be scum anyway, and that's great odds, I could point out that Plato on the heels of Socrates and the delay involved in giving it smack strongly of fake claim, but I will instead simply say the day needs to end, that if nothing else a defense, in which he shows things he has done to benefit the town or can cast suspicion on someone else would also show he can be a benefit to the town, so I see this vote as offering us the closest thing to a win-win we can get for this otherwise disastrous day. There's basically a 50/50 chance he's scum, and that's good odds, if he can show he has acted to the town's benefit, then we have a reason to preserve him, if he can not and is what he says, then we loose a vanilla player who does not appear to represent a tactical asset either in role or deductive/investigative edge as a player.