If he's scum, I'm going to have to reassess my read of Ekko. When I say I probably should, I should do so regardless to avoid feeling too comfortable in my town read--my trust in viewing him as town can easily be exploited.
And he knows this.
I try my best to make sure I give equal thought to someone being town or being scum, not either or.
And look into Rugrat and Alco. Anyone pushing a lynch at random with zero serious convicting and to simply handwave it away by claiming it was to gauge reactions with a player they don't even know is frankly a bit weird. I don't view that intent in good faith.
The behavior presented with unvoting, noting the time of the end of a phase ("how much time is left?" when there's only 20 minutes left, "what's the VC?" when there's an obvious majority taking lead are all behaviors that make me???), and inability to truly interact with the thread at large, deliberete or no, makes it harder to detect if they're town for me.
That may not be true for you, you may be able to town read specific players just fine, but I'm not experienced with them, so I'm going by what I know: deflection tactics, hypervigilance of time, claimed TMI with no follow up, baiting for emotional reactions because they think their target is easy, etc.