@beanz Great post! But the #introduceyourself stuff is problematic. Please don't encourage the posting of pics saying hi steemit. It's not verifying anything and no one should need to verify unless they are making some claim about being a well known persona. Those people can verify on their existing social media accounts simply by posting a link to steemit in their profile.
Your advice is how we got catfish. Let's not start that again. People shouldn't have to trade on their looks, which is exactly what happens with those photos.
Otherwise, great post! Upvoted and following!
Thanks again for your vote.
After reading up on the concerns of the steemit community in relation to catfish accounts (mostly from @dan's post but others as well) and after careful consideration I have decided to Edit the Introduce Yourself paragraph from this post to encourage video verification instead of easily edited photo verification.
In no way, am I saying that users should have to reveal their identity. This is completely optional and I do not encourage the interrogation of users to prove their identity.
Thank you, @williambanks for your constructive feedback.
Thanks for the advice. I haven't been aware of a catfish problem. I'll start reading up on it and consider editing that out before the payout.