Why do random people start following me?

Howdy,

During the last 3 days, 3 people have started following me. I'm just curious to know why, since I haven't really been active in the community since I joined. Do they do it to complete some quest, or is there some other reason I may not know of? I simply do not find my online persona on Giantbomb to be very interesting, so I'm curious why someone would bother to follow me ;)

There's a quest for following new people so maybe that's why. It's only three people so it's hard to draw any conclusions.

Well, there is a quest for following new users on the site.

Followed!

Howdy,During the last 3 days, 3 people have started following me. I'm just curious to know why, since I haven't really been active in the community since I joined. Do they do it to complete some quest, or is there some other reason I may not know of? I simply do not find my online persona on Giantbomb to be very interesting, so I'm curious why someone would bother to follow me ;)

I usually follow those that follow me, but if I come across anyone who makes interesting comments in a thread I'm involved with I'll follow them.

Ah, my assumption was correct. Thanks!

Followed!

@craigbo180

They probably like your display pic or have high expectations based off your username.

Never understood why people follow so many others. Doesn't it just get in the way of seeing updates from people you actually want to read things from? Hell the only people I follow are staff and friends of Whiskey Media. I think I have 4 people that are just users that I follow and thats only because I actually want to hear what they might have to say.

Some people believe that if they follow others, they'll be followed too. Its as pathetic as 'sub4sub' on YouTube.

Some people believe that if they follow others, they'll be followed too. Its as pathetic as 'sub4sub' on YouTube.

You want me to subscribe to you? Try writing some interesting stuff.

@allofmyhate: How are those other quests treating you?

I decided to follow you because of this thread.

Tokyo Gore School has become a reality! :O

i'm a new person, you can all follow me  *wink*  ;)

From the thread title I really thought you were talking about people on the street and you were just an extremely paranoid person.

It's because you smell like rainbows and unicorns.

Followed!

Yea it's the quest, I would guess about 30 followers of mine are because of the quest.

It's because you smell like rainbows and unicorns.

I, on the other hand, refuse to fallow you under the suspicion that this thread was conspired to get even more followers. 

I thought I was just that damn witty, and come to find out it's just that quest... *weeps softly*

I have random people following me all the time too, and I just assume it's quest spam. I really wish they would add some kind of option when you choose to follow someone to let the person know why they are doing it. Even just a little checkbox that can add a few lines saying why they followed you. 

ITT: follow me people. i know i clicked on follow.

i don't know, i don't follow a lot of people. i follow people if they follow me.

I am now following everybody in this thread.

I get a lot more random followers than you have.

i wouldn't complain. getting followers is ballin' as hell, when it happens

I'm followed by 41 people right now.... I'm going to assume approximately 41 of those are related to quests.

is your username the bizzarro version of the Led Zeppelin song?

You never know. I sometimes follow links to lists and blogs and if I enjoy it I'll just follow the person.

At first I would've said it was due to the quest, but now its due to this thread post XD

I'll follow you just to watch you die

I will not follow you. 

I follow people who have gumption. You sir, have it in spades.

because I'm an interesting jackass.