The importance of identity verification
This is my second day on steemit. I love the idea and what it can become, but I have become a little disheartened by what I see in the area of identity verification. I don't mean the inability to truly verify yourself as an actual person, but rather the demand of the community for people to do so.
Perception is everything
The content of steem is growing based on exactly what it is, a social networking platform that rewards users for introduction of content, basically rewarded for what that content meant to the person who reads and upvotes. I personally don't care for the idea of revoking rewards based on wether the content is entirely truthful. I can agree it seems a bit silly for an introuduceyourself posting to show a dollar value in the thousands, what I can't do is make myself publicly challenge their claim of self. if it is fictional... well, fiction has value also.
Scams and Content Theft
I consider this to be a separate issue. Anything that can be monetized will have cheats thrown at it. If we want content to have a value, the source of that content should be credited to the creator. posting a link to a YouTube video, really should have at least the majority of the rewards going to the creator of the video, and not someone who just pasted the link to share. using Imageedit to verify if a photo has been edited I would not want to see becoming the ultimate verification source that defines wether or not a post, or the person, is fraud. We should treat an edited photo with suspicion before casting our upvote, but the fact that it has been edited alone, without any other proof, should not be a reason to downvote or flag a posting.
Summary
This is a new twist on an existing medium, and largely to date it seems to me to have been largely populated by the technically minded people. Your ongoing support and contributions to what the platform will become is invaluable. Posts currently outside of the circlejerk seem to be getting higher valued rewards than the content in them may actually deserve, I see that as simply encouraging other content needed to make it grow beyond the early adopters of the technology. Vigilance however shouldn't mean challenging every post or every person who comes to the site.
Please forgive my first attempt at a real "professional" posting. I have said in my little spam of posts yesterday that I am not remotely social media savvy. I am determined to find my voice though and find a way to contribute, just bear with me while I find my stride and accept each post as at least a GENUINE fail.
Self follow up to say I have a new respect for bloggers. Have never really done a post and the process to get one even somewhat coherent/presentable was more than I anticipated.
Ultimately, if you wish to foster followers based on you as a person most would be interested in knowing you indeed are who you say you are. This becomes ever so more important when you present yourself using pictures. No one wants to support a scam, hence the requests for verification.
I agree for the most part. Just hated seeing an introduce yourself piece attacked a little bit because the photos had appearance of being edited. The content was genuine, didn't see any posts saying they had found images used in posting from another site. I am having a hard time with the word scam being used, I agree it could be untrue. edited final piece to say the validation of the person would be important over time, just seemed a bit over the top in an introduceyourself posting. And it seemed to be based on some pretty flimsy evidence in some cases, or just intuition in others.
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