To be honest, mostly self preservation. I would like to think I've been extremely helpful to the town, whereas if I were scum I could have contributed far less while still appearing helpful. Of course, this now leads into the WIFOM case where I could be scum trying to prove I'm townie by being so pro-town to gain your trust therefore I'm scum for being so helpful, and we just keep layering all that up which simply won't be any help for anyone
I made that last post there (Technically after the deadline for which I apologise, I hadn't counted the votes when I was posting) which was a cross between sensibility and self preservation. Naturally I don't want to die, so I tried to big myself up a little to make myself a target. We very likely have a protector role of some sort, as well as a few investigators. By making myself an obvious target like that I hoped to act as a lightning rod (Though not the lightning rod role that may be in the game!). I'm an obvious target for the mafia, but that also makes me an obvious target for any healer/protection type roles.
The mafia had a total of either 8 or 9 people to pick from, depending on how many of them there are, while the healer(s) would have had 11. The odds of them both targeting the same person are slim, unless there is one person who makes themselves an obvious target. If both take the bait, there's no night kill.
Again, there are lots of assumptions involved in this (The main one naturally being that I'm not scum, you'll have to trust me on that
), but also the other roles involved. Redirection roles could have changed votes from me, but even so the mafia and healer must have targeted the same person and then had the target redirected, still leading to them both targeting the same person, except it wasn't me.
Heck, I may have not even been the target. My guesses and analysis may be so far off the mark that they didn't want to kill me. Or they may not have even submitted a kill.
Townies, it is up to you to use the information you gained overnight. If you protected someone, it is very likely that they are town since multiple protectors is unlikely. If you investigated someone, did it complete? If not, maybe the protector was a jailkeep meaning they couldn't be targeted by night actions. This equally means that you know they are town as well from the above reasoning.
Of course, the chance of redirectors does screw all of this up a little. It's up to you to make your own read, come to your own conclusions based on the information that you gained overnight.