verification controversy hinges on bluechecks interpreting the badge as a status symbol, which, hate to break it to you guys,
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I know lots of people who don't talk to bluechecks at all for fear of getting randomly locked/banned for it
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so it makes you "safer" but also more cloistered in the sterile linkedin/tedtalk parts of twitter
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personally I grew up in the dregs of the internet and will always prefer it over anything else
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actually I guess the blue check functions as a status marker in the same way as middle-class class norms
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being strongly rules- and propriety-oriented, it's a positive thing to ingroupers because it signals submission to norms
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whereas for outsiders it's the badge of a narc or a lemming
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