Originally Posted by Manglor
Pics on NT aren't currency they are relevancy. Meaning basically if a post has pics then it matters, if not it doesn't. Now why this may seem harsh and arbitrary there are several reasons why things are how they are. First would be the history of trolls. No i don't mean lord of the rings 20 sided dice magical trolls. i mean people who attempt to gain attention by inventing tales and/or by pretending to be something/someone they are not. It happens occasionally these days but was much more common in the past. Kids making up screen names and even whole identities just to pass themselves off as someone cool or even as a female on what is a mostly male inhabited website. Thus was born the need for pictures. In the begining it worked out well. Trolls had been weeded out in the most hilarious of ways. Posting a pic of the girl they are supposedly having an issue with or a pic of "themselves" that was proven by NT detectives to be a famous model or even a scan from a magazine(some trolls lack basic intelligence). So overall that created a lack of trust that started a decade ago and still cuts deep today. Another reason is simply that over the years NT has proven time and again to actually give very solid if not profound advice. Practice makes perfect i suppose and the evidence is abundant. You quite often see posts like "NT changed my life" or "NT saved my marriage" or "NT made me happy to be alive again" which just goes to show you that advice given here is something valuable. Doesn't that alone make a few pictures seem like a small price to pay for a service that can be so needed? Just look thru the first couple pages and see stuff like people helping club29 make friends even tho he's so cold-hearted. NT is a world all it's own. It has different standards and it bends reality in a way science itself couldn't explain. Case in point, anyone here at anytime could go google pretty women and see a billion pictures of a billion models. That being the case why does one pic of you or Murda He's girl matter so much? In reality it doesn't. On NT it's mana from heaven, it's gold flakes in the bottom of your pan a hundred years ago in california, it's a gulp of water in the desert, it's a giant dog with a tiny barrel of whiskey around it's neck when you are trapped in the snow. Especially now with yuku trying to squeeze the last ounce of life from our very soul. In closing i'd just like to say that at it's very core the demand for pictures is not a selfish thing. It's akin to tellin someone that you want them to matter. Like in elementary school when you pass a note to someone that says "hi, i like you. do you like me? circle 1 for yes, 2 for no." NT just wants to care about you, how can you say no to that?