The only reason this site provides value is because of the tremendous work of our mods. I have seen vastly more deleted handshake comments than trolling comments of late.
I haven't seen any of the fake white nationalist garbage, very little Trump, MAGA or Q bashing and only 3 or so per week whiny little snits complaining about the mods deleting their comments.
We have really outstanding mods around here.
Every new account has a handshake. After a period of time it goes away.
It warns others that you may just be new and have questions, or that you're potentially here to disrupt.
Think of it like being a high school freshman.