I don't think the tripcodes were ever validated. I don't trust the Watkins/8kun at all either though especially after watching LarpMonkeyZ fail so greatly during the Cyber Simposium. Literally asked a crowd "Does anyone know how batch programming works?" I presumed he had at least the basic and simplest of programming skills that a script kiddy would have. But nope, dude asked how batch programming works after like 2-3 hours of high school teacher like tech delays/ineptitude.

Qagg was running a scraper though that would collect all the Truth posts from Trump's inner circle/people of influence (started off with just DJT but quickly expanded to Scavino, Flynn, Kash, Nunes, but later expanded well beyond that). It was really handy for a few months since there was no public access available at that time. Alpha/beta people were posting for a couple of months before they opened it up to apps, then later to the web.

I'm pretty stodgy on my Q following, I don't do the Gematria bullshit, or the time/date stamp tying, nor the "you can sometimes ignore zeros, sometimes not", nor Majestic 12 intergalactic war stuff that tries to work its way in. I indulge in X22Report nightly and will frequently listen to Dave's interviews as well, but that's about as much as my buy in on Q.