Should you keep your old reads on slots that replace?

[KittyMo]

Open 656 ended recently and it was relevant to my question. The reason town almost lost was because the two top townreads replaced out and one of the replacements was incredibly scummy. Basically his scumminess erased everyone's read on the predecessor and townies bent over backwards to reinterpret old posts in a new light. It earned him a sizeable wagon and almost cost town the game.

I wonder if that re-reading was bad play on town's part or the correct thing to do.

Reported. Don't make threads about ongoing games