Just so new followers and potential followers know what I look for while I'm vetting you (not judging you...big difference), here's my how-to list that I've compiled with my own brief time here, and the wisdom I've gained from those that have gone before me:
1) A bio and photo...it really is important, as it gives
me some sense of who you are, at a glance.
2) A pinned post of something that's important to you
or descriptive of you.
3) When I scroll down your posts, will I see endless
'follow trains' or more personal shout-outs of your
own and others? I ask this because I've found that
follow trains draw bots by the score, and seemingly
diminished exposure.
4) Will I find personal posts in your own writing, or
just a stream of other people's posts? I understand
that not everyone is good at expressing
themselves, but if instead of just Reposting (which
doesn't help those that are monetized), and time
allows, a quick little statement of your own in a
Quote (which does help the monetized) gives me a
sense of who you are.
5) Will I get the sense that your sole focus is
monetization to the exclusion of any real
engagement beyond click-bait questions? If so, you
do you, as this is soon to be a free Country again,
but I'm not going to respond to it, and I will be
checking to see if you drop me if I don't...I will
respond in kind.
6) What will I see for a follow to follower ratio? If I see
that the number of people you follow is significantly
lower than the number that follow you, I'm naturally
going to assume that you'll drop me soon, and
saying IFB or IFBAP means nothing to you.
7) Lastly, am I going to see that you only value Blue
Checkmarks? As someone that didn't have one for a
year and a half, and only recently got one, this has
become a pet peeve. I see it as arrogant and
shallow, and just another means of sowing Class
Division...did we learn nothing from 12 years under
the Obama/Biden regime?!
In summation, I vet for my own peace and the peace of those I follow. After 16 years of debate/argument,
I'm now only trying to build my own community of like-minded people, so that I have somewhere to go to soak up and share positivity. Couldn't we all use that?