>>32020583You gotta pay or be in on the auth circlejerk, which means sucking the dick of all mods until you get a modicum of respect and global voice. Don't stop there, keep sucking and sucking, pretending to care about the site and its users. Once you become driver, mod or leader you abandon that and you become a narcissistic dick who bans any and all who insults you even in the slightest, you become a tyrant and keep jerking with the other auth like you're superior beings to the unvoiced regular users. You will hardly ever speak in chat (at least to the regular users) as you will use modnotes to talk with other auth, jerking more.
Then and only then will you get your custom avatar, so that all users can see that you are no normal bottom feeding scum.
Source: I talk to with every day and was mod briefly before I got permabanned.