You are defintely the person with the softest spot for shock (he would be permabanned on most sites) and I do recall you also protecting him for mere lols in the past ingame as well. W3 being midrange, as you assessed, is actually a fairly reasonable target for anyone, even if he declined a bit over time.
As for the "crumb", shock and w3 being recruits is so blatantly obvious and also w3 wont contribute. So he could only be signalling shock or andre there, which seems fairly low impact for a crumb (and also those are the people i too thought were recruited, no leadership required)
World Peace (2) - serprex, kaempfer13 (pls actually enforce this rule)