TMF Jeff
TMF owner and co-founder
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If you would like to get verified, contact me by Private Message and I'll work with you to get it done!
We have a pretty active social scene here, and a problem that has arisen from that is people creating fake accounts. There are a few reasons why this seems to happen -
1) People want to pretend to be a sexy female (or male) so someone will talk with them about tickling. We have a recurring incidence of profiles popping up and instantly being filled with hot pictures.
This is a particular target of the Verification system, because if someone is willing to post a bunch of pictures of themselves, there's really no reason for them to be unverified. And we suspect that many of these are actually the same small handful of people - Verification will make it harder for people operating multiple profiles to get away with it.
2) Someone acts like a jerk and they want to start over under a new name, which is unfair to people who have a right to know who they're talking to - especially if that person was problematic in their first encounter.
3) Someone is pretending to be a celebrity.
So to combat this, we've implemented a system of Verification. People who are Verified will have a blue checkmark next to their username.
Being verified means that a person has either
1) been to a Tickling Gathering and/or been verified by me or someone I know and trust, or
2) done a 10 second video chat with me.
Video chats for verification will be very fast and all-business. We just need to establish that you're a live human who matches their TMF persona.
And if you don't feel like getting verified, no problem! There's no penalty or consequence for not participating.
We have a pretty active social scene here, and a problem that has arisen from that is people creating fake accounts. There are a few reasons why this seems to happen -
1) People want to pretend to be a sexy female (or male) so someone will talk with them about tickling. We have a recurring incidence of profiles popping up and instantly being filled with hot pictures.
This is a particular target of the Verification system, because if someone is willing to post a bunch of pictures of themselves, there's really no reason for them to be unverified. And we suspect that many of these are actually the same small handful of people - Verification will make it harder for people operating multiple profiles to get away with it.
2) Someone acts like a jerk and they want to start over under a new name, which is unfair to people who have a right to know who they're talking to - especially if that person was problematic in their first encounter.
3) Someone is pretending to be a celebrity.
So to combat this, we've implemented a system of Verification. People who are Verified will have a blue checkmark next to their username.
Being verified means that a person has either
1) been to a Tickling Gathering and/or been verified by me or someone I know and trust, or
2) done a 10 second video chat with me.
Video chats for verification will be very fast and all-business. We just need to establish that you're a live human who matches their TMF persona.
And if you don't feel like getting verified, no problem! There's no penalty or consequence for not participating.
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