@Robb Not sure, hard to say. Hard to get a read on them early on so they usually go a couple days in without too much suspicion, bit they usually get lynched eventually because since they have less posts, they get much more scrutiny on each post (cause there's nothing else to analyze about them). Sometimes one or two scum manage to lurk all the way to endgame though, but some people just plain play that way no matter their alignment. Usually one way to get them to talk and decide on them, is to attack them and see how they respond, even if you don't strongly believe they're Mafia. Like Zchinque said, force them to leave a paper trail.
I don't think timezones are a problem, because they would still at least post once a day, which is more than sufficient. Newness to the game could be a factor to why some people post less though, or just general anxiety (whether town or scum). And it's not a strong scumtell by itself because some people tend to lurk with power roles too.. usually the noisy ones like us tend to be all vanilla or unimportant townies. :P
@Azarr Not at all suspicious if a mafia was to hammer, regardless of whether Baz is town or not. Because of the exact argument you use, the next argument would be whoever hammered (because
someone has to hammer the daily lynchee eventually) would be town because Mafia would never do such a thing because everybody knows it is too obvious and puts too much pressure on them. Therefore Mafia could do it and use that reverse argument. But then maybe because they know everyone else knows they could, so they don't, etc. It's
WIFOM (wine in front of me) though definitely worth watching, but I think it doesn't really say much about whether Mafia is on the wagon or not, and whether Baz is or not.
@Pazzer Who is (or was) your other main suspect that appears to be town now, besides Typhoon?
@enterprise Just a running commentary of your opinions (like that last paragraph) is always good. An extra pair of (hopefully townie) eyes reading always helps and may eventually catch something. :) Especially if you think you catch something or disagree strongly with an opinion or general read. It's a group effort overall to root out the scum, after all!