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Any “lords” considering the $8 — you’re helping establish a tipping culture here. Shouldering “peasant” risks from impersonators. Everything else is just random bundling extras that have no good reason to be attached to verification status.
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I’d actually be willing to pay for blue-like backend features that have no visible profile affordances. Selling fun affiliation badges or NFT display ability is also fine. Pretending the platform’s verification responsibility is a status “product” is just deeply disingenuous.
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Contra many people's take on this, I don't think the bluecheck was *ever* an actual status symbol. Where it did not actually point to an external credential that needed verification protection, it was a lolcow badge only ever made fun of. The insult was the canonical perception.
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> [the bluecheck] was a lolcow badge only ever made fun of hmm I don't think this is actually true. An analogy is yachts: I don't think I've ever heard of anyone talk about yacht owners in a positive light, and yet they still get bought as, and work as, a status symbol.
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Hmm. When did you get your blue check? Because after 2017 or so you have been the biggest scam/impersonation risk around. If you hadn’t gotten it and I was twitter security I’d probably have enforced it anyway.
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Still, it’s nice to have. Zero material value is a degenerate case. There’s literally no direct material pleasure to be gotten out of credentials. That’s why they print degrees beautifully, make medals heavy, and add nice graphics to NFTs. To graft on a bit of material pleasure.
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