A Boring Dystopia

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Well, it looks like verification photos might be useless now. (startrek.website)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/aboringdystopia

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Verification posts go back further than Reddit.

They were used extensively on 4chan, because they were the only way to prove that a person posting was in fact that person.and yes, it was mostly people posting nudes, but it was more that they wanted credit.

The reason it carried on to Reddit was because people were using the accounts to advertise patreon and onlyfans, and mods mostly wanted the people making money off the pictures to be the people who took those pictures.

Also it was useful for AMA posts and other such where a celebrity was involved.

[–] ysjet 1 points 10 months ago

4chan was a bit different in that it was anonymous to begin with- and more to the point, it was self-volunteered verification, not a mod-driven requirement.

As for reddit, mods were requiring private verification photos LONG before patreon and onlyfans even existed in the first place.

AMAs, agreed.