The trouble with indiscriminately displaying the site buttons of every single person who follows you is eventually looking at a wall of 100 buttons and knowing that at least some of them are dead/outdated but not having the impetus to individually check 100 websites.
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That's part of why some time ago I purged all my people buttons and later brought back the buttons of people who are friends or I think are cool.
That's what a smart and sane person would do! ¯\(°_o)/¯
I'm not dead, but I tend to not update regularly with exception to my blog maybe.
Similar to Hifumi, that is part of the reason why I eventually set the profile to private and got rid of the button wall. Number of "followers" and "views" felt like a distraction from genuinely engaging others. This is also why I rarely "like" things; I'd rather leave comments or send emails.
That's why I keep my affiliates and button wall separate and prioritize the former when checking dead links.
I still gotta lean on the "like" when I want to say "I have seen this" but I don't feel like I have anything worthwhile to add, but I totally understand and respect those who don't want to interact with those metrics at all.
seriously i'm about to revamp my website button roll. thats too many lol