Hi [@cryptogee](https://steemit.com/@cryptogee). We didn't really get a chance to talk much at steemfest. Was nice to meet you though mate, however briefly.

This is an interesting subject which is different for everyone I think. I have everything slap bang up there for all to see. My picture as avatar, link back to my old WordPress blog (long abandoned in favour of steemit 😉), I did a verification post about a month in to my steemit journey as well. For me, verification is important two fold:
One, I'm mainly putting up creative writing and am trying to ensure future publication ownership as well as mitigate against possible plagiarism from dodgy steemians (happens more than you think). Which leads into point two. I'm part of curie and the curators there have a real hard job when an author isn't verified in deciding if/when to submit them for a potential curie vote. During the market peak, I must have seen 3 out of 10 posts I assessed for curie turning out to be plagiarism. Work stolen from other sites or even from other steemit accounts. They got very sophisticated in their methods at one point using a program to insert random fonts throughout the text of a story to foil a Google plagiarism check. This is why verification is so important on steemit in my view. Simply to stop the thieves and scammers from taking rewards that should go to the new emerging content creators of quality.

Ha ha, rant over 😂

P.s. that is a slick avatar btws you got the cyborg thing styling

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