A friend sees your plurks, you don't see theirs. A fan is mutual. You can not PM a fan, only friends. Friend most, fan some, block weirdos.

how do you know if someone is weird on plurk?

Well said.....especially that last sentence.

I always right click and open profile in new window. Look through past plurks. If you can understand why they might follow you, fan is OK.

But when they're just "weird" 2000 "friends" and promoting garbage, or inappropriate content - block them.

I follow teachers, museum folk, and scouters for the most part, with a few others that I have interacted with. I like to get to know

everyone I plurk with rather than just adding fans. It's worked for me since the first of June.

ok. thanks. i thought this site was mostly educators and technology people, but i guess others join in too?

If they don't mention something about education in their profile or come recommended by a good friend I don't usually bother.

It doesn't happen often but one will sneak into our inner circle and start spreading garbage every once in awhile.....

Yeah, that's my good IRL (in real life) friend salmonman.

But he's a good guy anyhow.

Cubmaster Joe is kind of a trouble maker.....a little bit of a sketchy character!

thanks for the tips. my karma isn't going up and i've been plurking a lot tonight.

it will take a bump tommorow or later tonight. It won't auto update but just every few hours or so.

Only updates 6 times per day - 11, 3, 7 AM & PM (central) You only need to plurk once, and have someone respond once, in each time period.

You can "miss" up to 12h before you stop maximum gains. You start to lose Karma in 24h. Takes a bit to get it going positive again.

i feel like i have so many new friends. i am so glad kevinh told me about plurk.

First 60 pts are currently very easy to get. 70-80 is tough. Above 80 you get +.01-.04 on a good day. Above 90, its just .01.

kevinhoneycutt is a great guy. But don't make TOO many friends too quick. Friend only as fast as you think you "know" people.

that's why mine says -.16 i wasn't on plurk yesterday and now it's taking time to get back up i guess.

why is that?

about making too many friends?

Oh Great she just friended me and now you clowns got her trying to block me

exactly!!

I'm not as bad as thet say ask around. Ask athorp she'll tell you I'm ok. jeesh

it really bad to get a lot of friends too fast? i can always delete them!!! LOL!

Please don't do it

LOL!!! I won't!

I just think that he was saying that gaining too many too fast can get some good ones lost in the shuffle in the end.

Plus you will end up with some garbage ones too which you will have a weed through to start enjoying this site

if you end up with too many too fast you can get TOO MUCH information on here and it will make it harder to find the good stuff right away.

you mean like clubmaster joe?!?!?

right on nkrahn

No, but a good rule of thumb is to friend as many as you have Karma until the first 40 or so. Plurk is interactive, and you will have a hard

time meeting & getting to know your new friends if you put too many on there. It will seem overwhelming, you have to constantly "mark all

read" and you will miss a LOT of the conversation. In 3 months I've only "allowed" 175 friends+fans bc I like to get to know the folks I

talk to... (And unfriending has consequences for the unfriended. As Nick says, choose wisely up front.)