I'm not at all interested in when the PMs went out or in what order, Pappy. I seriously doubt it makes a difference to any of us which ones were early or later anyway... besides, this isn't a question about JL's method of dispatching them. So I agree with you that we shouldn't speculate about the game mod at all.... but I am speculating about Noodles because her premature post is interesting.
What does concern me in a nit-picky way was Nood's claim that she posted "seconds" later. That was not a true statement... it was minutes, not seconds. So I pointed that out.
As for my vote, it was a random vote placed on the first person I saw doing something I could use to generate a little discussion on Day 1. If there's any merit to that at all, that's purely by chance.
I will add, however, that jumping the start like that IS a scum tell. The more I think about this now, the more I wonder if my vote might be a lucky shot in the dark. The exact same thing happened to me and it almost got me killed early in a game where I was scum. The reason I nearly got lynched right away was because others agreed that it's a scum tell.