Go to any of the Canadian Reddit forums for example that allow discussion and man, it's fuck the government, fuck immigrants, who do you think controls everything, etc... it's not what it was like 5 years ago.
Meanwhile on here it's like hello KIA2, I'd like to have a discussion on... Banned. DOM didn't like your haircut.
Handshake accounts get discriminated by mods forcing the necessity to premake.
That's not how handshakes work, genius, that's never how they worked as the recent spam here and on other boards shows over and over with accounts over 1 year old still have the icon.
Any board an account is new to gets the handshake icon, even if the account is weeks/months/years old. It has nothing to do with account age, it's account presence on a board.
Go look at the pinned thread: https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/GIJF3rpD/welcome-ashore/c/
Any of the accounts that posted 4 years ago, Hugs, WassermanSchultz, TheLionParty, todiwan, rocket_nazi, AceOfTrumps, Bizz408, and so on, if any of them went to a new board, or even just one they had never been active on before, and started posting they would again have a handshake.