RE: Is This Hive's Verified Check Mark?

I really hate to see this failed system in place for a multitude of reasons. It does not protect to platform from bad actors, it does not protect anyone from spam and it's easy to game.

If we would just not show and use it anymore, all Apps would be better because this wrongfully called "Reputation" can't damage anyone anymore. Ask @jelly13 for example how he got to a great score.

The Blue check is very effective at creating a minimum permanent buy-in for accounts to leave value back independent of what the account is used for. It would be very smart to have a system like that on this Blockchain. The endless witchhunt led by those crazy Discord Cave Trolls who police the chain day and night could be dramatically contained. Hive could do it in a very elegant fashion, with permanent Hive Power lock-up - a true timeless commitment to permanent Hive Power. Any account that does that, could be left alone for a long time. You could bring people to the chain, teach them nothing, let them get verified, and learn from their own mistakes without getting trashed by the Hive Police over less than a buck rewards. I call that a great solution to a lot of headaches.

Maybe my point of view is a bit distorted, I don't see any priority higher than bringing and keeping new stakeholders around. Anything that has a negative effect on this target has to be questioned for an update or by default abolished. If every new user is seen as untrustworthy due to "Reputation" and low "Reputation" is offboarding users, what it does, then it's most sensible to outright delete it and work on a different solution asap, in that order.