verified member account ability for the organizer
Could you have a button like twitter so the organizer can say that the member is a verified account... I think others will feel better about communicating with other members if they are reassured that it is a real person. This will also help with the profiles that do not have pictures. At least the organizer can say they know it's a real person behind the account.
Christine Marie Bryant
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Mike
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We require each member to sign a waiver and prove they have a valid motorcycle endorsement on their driver license before they can attend a group ride. The verified member option would really help event coordinators and us organizers, especially when we have our safety brief. We could use our smart phones to "verify" the attendees have signed a waiver and are properly licensed (by checking the site and seeing that a particular member is “verified”). Those who are not verified would be required to sign a waiver and produce proof of their licensure to operate a motorcycle.
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Carla C.
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Yes! Can we ban MLM people, too?!!!! lol
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Jessica
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Perhaps a "color-coded border around a location where a person's picture might be placed", indicating Identity Verified Account status (whether or not they have a picture) or even a notch on the bottom please, I might FAR prefer to a "button like twitter". We share a Common Ground in this combined Idea, yes, yet I would prefer a different implementation than the above. Thank you!
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Jessica
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For common ground, the issue: Would verified-accounts be worthwhile?
If this is something you think may be of value, please vote.
However the coder decides to implement it, (Craig Newmark could have thought through the issue.. and Meetup will choose to do it however they think best), as a member, an event host or an organizer, is this something you might find of value.. when members join, on email you receive, etc?
@Paul: Great point! Thank you! -
Jessica
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@X: Yet please understand persons first JOIN, before attending events. What would you implement first? One starts somewhere. Thank you!
(Also, NOT every member nor every organizer/event host -including you- needs to enable this feature on their account.) Thank you for responding!! -
x
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I STRONGLY DISSAGREE with this; privacy issues arise with having to provide this information. If someone is not who they say they are you'll know it as soon as they show up for the event; a phone number proves nothing
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Jessica
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Please give us a Light-Weight version, first!
(Visible to all members please and maybe also
Integrated with 'Forgot your password' function on the main page.)
Add 2nd release with credit-card info, gender, age etc later.
(PS. Limiting the financial system's fingerprints may takes design vision, having done it myself, but sending a simply TXT MSG or automated phone msg to user, having them login with the reply? Standard.
Best Practices?!) -
Jessica
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@Meetup: Please see Trufina, Opinity, Idology, Versign and others.
Verisign: "Consumer Authentication Service (CAS) provides online businesses with instant, round-the-clock information taken from more than 50 public and private databases to ensure a customer's identity."
"The information comes from state motor vehicle department, government, credit bureau and telephone number databases, Chakravarthy said."Opinity Inc. has partnerships with Social-networking site GoingOn.com, Edgeio.com (Classifieds) and CNET.com (Technology News).
Trufina signed dating sites HonestyFirst.com and Loveaccess.com.
IDology Inc. has agreements with Michigan State Liquor Control Commission, Platform Shoes Forum (age verification) and WineWeb (age verification, on a state by state basis).
Thank You SO Much!!!!!
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geekGirl
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I would like the ability to require credit card identity verification or something similar. A phone number can be easily faked or stolen...And I am in HUGE favor of this feature because it's very difficult to ensure that the members I'm granting access to are who they say they are. We already require a link to their Facebook profile or a photo of themselves posted to their Meetup profile (although, the latter is way easier to "forge" than the former). I know I sound paranoid, but I'm a big security buff. ;)
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Jessica
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Please allow identity-verified accounts on Meetup!
Leave pseudonyms yet allow identity-verified accounts too, please! Thanks!!
'Why do Craigslist and Facebook ask users to confirm identity by providing a phone number? This is a security measure to help ensure it remains a community of people using their real identities to connect and share. If you ever lose your password, you’ll also be able to use your mobile number to access your account.'
(Note, verified visible to all members plus the organizer's not "verifying" persons, so slightly different than what some other persons wrote below.) Thank you!! -
Jessica
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Please give us Identity-Verified accounts, visible to all members. Thank you!
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Jessica
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Perhaps an identity-verified icon, or border, next to or around a user's pix, Please?
(Plus a tool to re-verify the accounts, perhaps once a quarter? But at least once is a start..) Thank you!!
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Jennifer
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Couldn't the Organizer use the Custom Title feature for this? Simply give the member a custom title like "Verified Member" or something similar.
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Jessica
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Please also allow organizers to choose how to handle identity-verified rsvps vs pseudonym rsvps, vs specific-member posts..
http://meetup.uservoice.com/forums/37079-ideas-and-suggestions-for-meetup/suggestions/1482173-ability-to-allow-specific-members-to-post-to-the-m?ref=title
Pseudonyms can be a thing of value, but also identity-verified accounts.
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Jessica
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Please allow OPTIONAL ability for Member to allow Organizer to use contact info. Thank you!
http://meetup.uservoice.com/forums/37079-ideas-and-suggestions-for-meetup/suggestions/1766615-secured-contact-list-of-members-accessible-only-fo?ref=title -
erica ... I personally wouldn't "verify" their account until I met them in person and shook their hand at a meeting... it would simply just tell the rest of the members who has shown up to a meeting and who has not ...
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Chris Jackson
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I require all my members to post a picture of themselves in their profile. Also I remove members from the group if they spam the group. I have also seen other orgs kick out people if they don't attend any events within a specific time period. All these techniques seem to cut down the abuse of meetup accounts.
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Laura
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I totally concur with this suggestion. As an organizer of a women's group I believe it is a good safety option. I can then let members know who I have met and know. How do we know men aren't lurking on the site.
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erica
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Doesn't matter if they are private or not! You still don't k ow who these people are once they are approved if you don't meet them first
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Amber Tynan commented
Isn't this the reason we make groups private? I have pending members who do not become active members until I meet them. Then they are "verified."
