When you see a handshake account make a point to engage them in discussions. This is important for 2 reasons. One reason is we want to welcome new users with open arms, every new user is another person who’s woken up. The second reason is if they’re a shill it’s going to be easier to spot them the more they talk. Dont let new accounts lose their handshakes without engaging in frenly discussions!
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Thank you for this! Newcomers to the community aren’t always savvy about shills (I really wasn’t) and so it can be frustrating to get negativity just for being new. And trying to show you’re genuine can feel like work and in itself disingenuous? Maybe? I don’t know. I would say for the most part most here have been kind to me. I guess I’m naive sometimes and give too much benefit at first, but I do understand the need to keep the shills from getting a foothold. I also would say that the moment someone creates an account is by no means an accurate measure of how long someone has been reading the site. It’s just the time they finally decide to brave joining the discussion.