I don't understand what you mean in the end. Are you asking me if I have trouble verifying my account?

About the linking part, like I said, think about it as "could someone online do this without proof that its really me?" Yes, if they do link to their twitter account, and on twitter there is no mention about steemit, any steemit followers, etc. Then yes, anyone online could do this.
But if you on your "verified twitter" account say that "hey I'm doing my intro post on steemit" then we know that its really you the real owner of the other social platform, not someone just linking to a random one pretending to be them. 

That was the point of the blogpost.

"ALL interactions on this platform are about demonstrating that you are "real""

Exactly! Its a win-win situation for both readers, voters and writers, win-win-win. :P

Sent you a steem! Was thinking there would be more suggestions so in lack of that I decided to award the ones that brought discussion too.

You don't want strangers to have all of your names. Passport is not a safe method of verification on the internet.

The best way to verify your post, IMO, is actually to just be yourself. Humans are very good at instinctively perceiving whether someone is real or not. If you talk about your passions, your loves, your hopes and dreams, people will believe you're real.

Although I agree that its a more fail-proof verification method to film instead of take a picture. 

For most people its a hassle, most don't even know about imgur or steemits own uploading page, even verifying may sound like a hassle to them. Most users won't have a need to fake verification pics, and most users can early on tell if its edited with or not through various sites. The thing is that if something big would happen with said user or someone would need their verification for something important I'm sure they will be able to provide better proof, if not then we may know why.
Thing is that verifying it quickly is enough for us not to not trust the user, or think he is fake. If anyone would need more verification later because person C wants to create a charity for X and we want to make sure this is a real person who can stand for what he is doing.

Thanks for the reply!

sent you a steem! :)

Did you read the whole post?

"-You don't have to take personal pictures of yourself or others/other things that disclose information about you, your account here can remain anonymous if you want it to be"

There are ways to verify you are the persona you say you are without showing your face or other personal stuff that would give your anonymity away. If you have other anonymous social networks, by using them and adding the word steem or linking to your steem account works as verification as well.

The whole point with verifying is so we know you are real. No need to give out personal information when verifying.

Thanks for this post! I agree, it happens so often in the "new" section. Most thankfully get flagged or shut down early, but every now and then some make it further and some times even too high. But the community here isn't easy fooled, so that's a +!

The account verifying method you described is new to me and if it really is that simple as it sounds, that is amazing and would be awesome to have a "sticky" guidepost with it there for newbies in the #introduceyourself.

Sent you the 3rd reward for the suggestion! Thanks!

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A tweet made me aware of this post by a friend, which made me aware of #steemit: https://steemit.com/marketing/@lukestokes/how-one-steemit-comment-got-me-unblocked-follwed-and-retweeted-by-max-kesier

Of course, immediately after signing up, I spot out #newcomers and #verification, and check it out. That's just the way I am. :-) And whom do I find in the comments thread, contributing, as always? @lukestokes

I like Keybase's tracking  concept, described here
https://keybase.io/docs/server_security/tracking. Perhaps Steemit would benefit from this. Smarter people than me can weigh in.

Joe "tracks" Mary  after personally inspecting her public key and the identify proofs on social media pointing back to her key and signature.  By tracking Mary, he is effectively signing a snapshot of her identity, and Keybase is watching out for those public identity proofs disappearing, along with more behind the scenes, too, as explained in the tracking link above.

The more people who track Mary, and the longer Mary has been tracked by people who are themselves trusted, the more comfortable you can be that when Mary posts something, it's the Mary she's claiming to be.

Here I is: https://keybase.io/clarkeveretts

Glad you posted this, @acidyo.

P.S. I originally had markdown to "pretty up" the link to the tracking info, but of course that would have broken a copy/paste someone would do to verify I was the one who posted the comment! :-)
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Can you please send me an invite in keybase?

Thank you! :)

A time traveler I see, were you here to snipe the curation rewards? you've gone far back. We've gone too far. We must find a way to come back to our timeline post HF25.