For me, there was some early movement in the neighbors chat, that raiased my hackles. Because there's been a lot of work going on in there. Seemed like some citations to agree.
Since I wasn't sure about you, I wanted to see how he would respond to that, hence my early strategy. We also have to be a little wise with what we say in there, as we are assuming 1 scum, and that everything we say is visible to scum. On a different note, I misdirected on who I was going to push most day 1, because I wanted to stay alive n1, and I was suspicious of future. And so I told everyone I wanted to push someone else. And that person, even if scum, wouldn't be intimidated by a push.
And really future can't counter any of that, because multiple people could confirm if needed.
With the number of neighbors, we still think that it's likely that there is one scum in the group. And those I've had two places (here and neighbor chat) to vet their metas. I also don't love the val vote. At least me and one other person had asserted Val's meta in the neighbor chat to be random, and future voting there felt like a convenient way to stay off a train.