Temporally, this vote was placed later than the "typical" salt/joke votes, but it was also only page 2 of the thread, and page 1 was primarily fluff.
This was after Dina and Bob dropped votes on her within the same minute. I thought the timing was interesting,
This still feels like a bit of an overreaction to me on reread. I think it's primarily the bolded sentence that makes it feel that way - it's pretty aggressive. I have issues with Bob's reasoning too, which I've discussed on the thread already. It's possible that April had a big reaction like this because she's been a D1 misyeet before.
This response to cubs felt off. I'm not sure I can articulate why.
This is a valid point.
This was in response to my reads post, where I had alley in my village leans. I don't remember if April actually says later what was pinging her about alley, we'll see as we proceed.
Nope. She doesn't - she alludes to it in this post below, but never actually says what specific posts were getting her attention.
These are fair points, especially since I haven't played for a bit and have never played with village!cubs. Yesterday, I felt like these were examples of her defending people in a way that I've seen her do before when she's wolfing, but they're not coming across that way on reread. The ones quoted below remind me of that a little more - I don't remember which game it was where April was wolfing and white knighted me, but this felt similar to it:
The reason it struck me as similar was Sporty had commented on a specific post, and even said she wasn't sure if she felt like it was weird or not, but April jumped in there anyway to say it was NAI.
Here's some more light defense of cubs, but this, like her quote above talking about him and TME, was a more natural insertion into the discussion. I did consider this point last night when I was deciding where to vote (along with the fact that my D1 wolf vibes meter needs to be recalibrated).
On reread, it does seem like a disproportionately big deal was made out of April's vote - I think partially because Bob made such a thing out of it (joking or not), but I think some of it was because of the timing, even though much of the thread hadn't voted yet.
@Dinashadow, what did you expect from April?
April has wolfed with pleasy before, and I agree with her assessment here. In addition to the hedginess (which I mentioned in my own reads often gets her wolf-read), pleasy does really up her sass game when she's village. She can be one of those low-hanging fruits for people to misyeet, and I liked April's evaluation on her.
@Aprilthearab, what pinged you about Dina?
This was less than an hour to voting close when the vote on Mel that was originally for funsies morphed to being a pressure vote. Without any follow-up on what specifically was bothering her about alley, it's difficult for me to interpret this in the context of where her vote ended up.
This was a slight bit of pressure on genny, but she doesn't continue to push there.
This still feels groce, especially with April never actually saying what it was about alley that was making her think she was wolfy, particularly when she'd already acknowledged that alley often seems sketchy D1.
I liked that she called Cray out for this because it did seem hypocritical given how Cray has gone after samac for PM coordination in previous games.
Bolded - I'd interpreted her earlier comment about how she saw that Mel was there but she was waiting for contributions as her vote shifting to a pressure vote. I don't know if she was perhaps not asking questions because she was waiting for the pbpa that was promised and never materialized, but Mel makes a good point here that she didn't make an effort to engage with him.
So here's the thing: she vaguely said that she wasn't getting good vibes from alley, but then never specified what those were, and then went along with it when her village reads went to yeet alley on D1 (again). Knowing that alley can be misyeeted pretty easily - this isn't the first time in the last couple months where she was misyeeted D1 - swinging the vote there for reasons that she never actually stated, and relying on other people's reads to get there, feels like taking the easy way out. Pleasy at least articulated why she was wolf reading alley and I could follow how she got there, even if I disagreed with her.
I feel this, but hope we'll see some evolution of wolf leans from April as this cycle goes on.
I thought it was still talking about Sporty's vote. How did you interpret it after this comment, @Aprilthearab?