There's like a billion academics on here. Seems like the right call to me. Pinboard pro tip: make your Twitter icon a big blue circle and 95% of people will think you're a verified account.
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Replying to @Pinboard
What’s the point of verification then? Notable? Real person? Who they say they are?
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Replying to @zeynep
Originally I thought it was for preventing people from impersonating celebrities, but it has long since exceeded my understanding. Of course the kind of people who insist you call them "Dr." because they studied Hegelian hermeneutics are going to grasp at any online credential.
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Replying to @Pinboard
Some may have chips on shoulders, and gonna go with that’s more widespread than PhDs. But yes many people need to insist on title/blue check because tons of people refuse treat them like they’re fellow humans, let alone educated ones. You don’t face that so may be hard to grasp.
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It’s like the rich saying, no, no the money doesn’t matter. It does if you don’t have it, and so do titles and credentials if you get treated like an idiot and/or subhuman by default by a sizable group. That’s not “grasping”, more like trying to survive.
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Replying to @zeynep
I think framing a blue checkmark on the outrage site as a survival issue is taking it too far.
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Replying to @Pinboard
If they’re going to survive as part of the public sphere, it is. Not survive as in die, obviously, but absolutely survive as in have a voice here—and this goes direct to media narratives. The treatment is so uneven, and that check helps a lot because humans are like that.
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The whole verification thing is so odd. It seems to sit in some ill-defined place between “this account is what it claims to be” and “this person is important and we think you should listen to them”. The former category has value, and they should just open it up to everyone.
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But note that you can change your display name to eg "Ida Bae Wells" and keep your verified tick, which means it means even less. Verified shouldn't be a bit, it should be a link to a Wikipedia article. That means delegating who gets one to Wikipedia; better than current system.
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Wikipedia is a barrier to women. Few take the time to update notable women’s accomplishments, but if there’s the slightest controversy everybody shows up with additions. Really not as much with men. Just browsing through people I know in the field is usually a shocking exercise.
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Clearly the solution is a decentralized, immutable and censorship-proof public ledger of notability
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Checkcoin
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