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RE: Why its important to verify yourself as a newcomer
This is a major problem with this platform. The ease of which you can just create an account in someone else's likening is crazy. I know that it would be hard to make this harder for people to do but efforts need to be taken.
I think an introductory post with a picture is almost a necessity. You don't have to give out your full name or whatever but knowing that there's a real human willing to show their face is a good start.
Trying to stop people imitating real people though is a whole other kettle of fish.
The problem isn't really exclusive to steemit. You have any idea how many fake profiles there are on FB and other social media sites created with malicious intentions?
It's an uphill battle with no real solution. Taking people's phone numbers on account creation is a way to combat this, using pictures and video verification for intro posts is a good way to verify... but short of requiring passport verification (which would anger a lot of people), I don't see any way to combat it.
Only thing we can do is pay attention to who we're rewarding on here IMO.
Agreed.. first I didn't notice it and after I post something in introduceyourself I became noticeable.. as a nub
This problem is true for any social media. It might be a bit bigger problem here as there is no verification check, though if you go by Twitter's standards, it's not like that means anything.