I am sick and tired of hearing "Watch Who You Follow" and yet no one says who to follow and who is full of **it.
If I was the last Normie on earth and I was swiftly heading down a raging river toward a drop off - jagged rocks and certain death. Who's name would be on the life preserver you toss to me?
Truth and Art TV ? Humerous Mathematics? Phil Godlewski 2.0? Good Dog? And We Know? _________ fill in the blank for me, PLEASE
You have to use your own discernment based on research and common sense. Never base your decision on emotions or feelings. And never put your full trust in anyone. No matter who you are following be willing and able to kick them to the curb with no remorse. In other words don't get emotionally invested in anyone you are following.
thanks DogSoldier2. How long were you here before you finally got a cute icon next to your ID? I have been here almost 3 years
I honestly don't remember how long it was or what the criteria for getting the avatar consists of. I'm sure the mods can tell you. I've been following Q since the first part of Nov 2017 around a week after his first drop.
I'm 3 years behind you, then.
Probably not. This board didn't exist back then. Most of us arrived here due to the demise of other Q sites.
After you get enough post points, you'll get an avatar too. I don't know what the magic number is and I don't know if your comment points are part of the equation. I'm a lurker and will probably never get an avatar because I don't post much. I just comment for the most part.
It's just an arbitrary number based on how uploaded your comments are. Not just how many comments, but how valuable your comments are. If you have just a bunch of one up vote or two up vote comments all the time, you won't get one. But you if you are clearly putting in high effort comments, then, the algorithm will see that. At some threshold, presto
There was a mod back in 2021 that was handing them out on request. Lots of folks asked for them.
Now they're karma based, but it's mostly based on posting.