I don't really do that myself, I just want to be friends with everyone and don't really see why it needs a special badge, so anyone can say they're Shardbuddies with me.
Really good RP, since RP rarely gets upvoted and takes a lot of work. Other things that took a lot of effort.
If they won't give me too many notifications.
I don't care about Shardbuddies, as mentioned before, and no, I don't think there has to be a correlation. You can like a piece of content without particularly wanting to go out of your way to see more of that person's content, and vice versa.
Oh, 100%. So many friends, threads, RPs, games, events, relationships...the Shard means so much to me.
I do think I'd be missed. I have friends here, and even if I didn't, I've been around a lot, am actively participating in several things including some which I'm in charge of, and I'm a mod now so yeah I think I'd be missed by some.
Hmm, yeah, I think Omi's right. I might notice if they were to disappear, I've seen them around and they're quite nice, but I don't know them well personally, so it probably would be pretty seamless. I hope that's not rude of me.