I mean, you're learning, so it happens. One thing to keep in regards to me is that rarely if ever am I going to suggest convention that is flagrantly suboptimal or incorrect. This is not to say I'm always right, but I would wager, quite comfortably, that I've played and hosted more games than most of the players in this game combined. And with that, you learn a few things, like what does and doesn't make sense. And I bring this up because earlier, you pointed out that you can't trust my word in this game. That's fine and all, but consider this - if, as scum, I were to suggest something that was just wrong, and people followed it, there is a good chance I'd have to deal with people doing it wrong again in a game where I'm town. Or, more likely, they say "you can't be trusted!" and would ignore what I have to say, and then go and proceed in a suboptimal fashion. The point being, I would be making it much harder for myself in future games if I were to just lie about what people should and shouldn't do, more so than any win would be worth to me.
In the case of this situation specifically, when it comes to controlling information townies tend to play themselves sometimes. When you get too hung up on tricking scum or not giving them information you lose sight of the fact that information is the town's best weapon. Some players here, as they have done, will insist that what I was saying was "fishing" or "scummy", but neither is true, it's simply convention. There are, at times, reasons to break convention, but the word "convention" is used for a reason. And obviously here, the inconsistency you figured out would have been brought to light earlier, and the situation could have largely been avoided. T-Pein last game was a good example too - he was so focused on manipulating the cult that he got himself caught in a lie and lynched when he should never have been.
Gun to head, I do lean town on you. So there's that. The rest we'll have to see with this flip, but if nothing else if what you take away from this is a good learning experience then that's great as far as I'm concerned. Judgement calls are a thing and sometimes you make the wrong one, but sometimes it's best to just play the "correct" way and what happens afterwards, happens. You get the point though, and apologies for the lengthy ramble.