Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25258217-20150429180219/@comment-21547349-20150829070028

No one has this username wrote: I get tired of lighting torches and liking the islands of 50 or 60 people each day and rarely have all of my own (30ish) lit. I've started checking to see how many of my torches they've lit of mine before I light anyone else's stuff. If I see a big disparity, I boot the person from my friend list.

That is how I do it. I light up to 3 torches for new friends and give them about a week to light some of mine. If they reciprocate they get a yellow star, if they don't they get booted. Then once a week I check my all the yellow star friends on the list. If the difference between reciprocal lighting is more than 10, they get the star removed and no more lights until it improves.

It sounds complicated but it keeps torch lighting numbers manageable, and most of my torches are lit.

As to likes, I can't see the point in liking everybodies islands, especially where islands are set up as coin farms (like mine). It devalues the thumbs up. I only thumbs up islands where the owner has made an effort. This also speeds up daily lighting.