[b]Hello to all SW Members! Thanks for the feedback you've shared regarding your thoughts on our recent Verification Photo feature.[/b]
The SW Team has discussed ways on which we can make changes to accommodate much more of our member base.
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Here are some changes/improvements we have planned and are working on to be released soon:
[b]• Show Verification Badge and Link on Profile Only
• Ability to "Heart" ❤ Verified Photos
• Watermark on Verification Photos
• Toggle your Verification Badge & Photo settings/type:[/b] ○ Show Verified Photo to Everyone ○ Show Verified Photo to other Verified users ○ Do not show Verified Photo to anyone
□ Show Verified Photo to Friends I added
Your Verification Badge Icon may change dynamically, depending on the options you choose. Similar to this example:
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Apart from the changes to this new Verification Photo feature, we will also be working on other ways for members to recover their SW account in the case of losing access.
[b]Other SW account recovery options we may have available in the near future:
• Secondary Email Address
• Phone Number
• Secret Question and Answer[/b]
Please note that us adding a new mode of account recovery/verification to SW recently has no bearing on our willingness to add additional recovery options.
Such a complex website has requires immense amounts of development, and a lot of time and work is needed to complete each additional feature.
The order in which we release features on SW will always be subjective to users, as users will always have different needs, wants and priorities.
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Our original idea for having the Verification Photo system was a two-fold approach which helps:
1) In recovering ones account if they were to lose access.
2) For those who are public about their image [i](shares photos of themselves on SW)[/i] they would have some additional validity in their claims that they are the person in said photos.
[b]The Verification Badge is not intended to show who what members are trustworthy or not, [u]only to help verify that someone is who they claim to be publicly[/u].[/b]
It isn't very possible for us to "Verify" someone who wishes to remain anonymous.
We have however planned these changes to this feature to promote more inclusiveness on this Verification Badge feature.
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[c=#BF0000]Please remember above all, [b]such features of Verification or Account Recovery are, and will always be OPTIONAL[/b]. :)
[b]You are not being forced to use this or pretty much any other feature of Similar Worlds against your will.
[u]If you are worried about your privacy, then please simply do not upload any personal images of yourself.[/u][/b]
If you do not claim to be a certain person displayed in shared photos, then you have absolutely nothing to worry about regarding misrepresenting your personal appearance.[/c]
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Thanks again! We look forward to your continued Feedback and Support. [i][c=#005E2F]-The SW Team[/c][/i]
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Why are some visible only to verified users rather than to VIP? Considering who actually pays to support the site, with the promise of extra benefits for doing so, that seems fundamentally wrong.
@fazer1k, "[u]Verified users[/u]" is a very relevant group to this feature, so it was given priority as an option for this feature.
I would not call this "fundamentally wrong". You can however bring it up as a suggestion to SW Staff for inclusion.
I will discuss with the team the idea of including VIP along with the "Verified users" group.
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[quote=fazer1k]Considering who actually pays to support the site, with the promise of extra benefits for doing so[/quote]
We do appreciate all VIP support. SW does give a great deal of VIP benefits to users at a very affordable price, much more so than any other website I'm aware of.
We are always open to adding new VIP benefits. Members only need to make their suggestions known for consideration.
@Andrew I [i]would[/i] call it fundamentally wrong because you are giving benefits to 'verified' rather than your paying customers.
I have no control over how you run your business, of course, but as someone who has paid for the service I feel somewhat cheated and am now beginning to regret my decision.
[quote=fazer1k]I would call it fundamentally wrong because you are giving benefits to 'verified' rather than your paying customers.[/quote]
And Verified users give up some of their "Privacy" by publishing actual photos of themselves on Similar Worlds.
VIP do already have very many benefits. This doesn't mean that they will always have EVERY possible benefit on every feature of this site.
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[quote=fazer1k]but as someone who has paid for the service I feel somewhat cheated and am now beginning to regret my decision.[/quote]
This does not seem like the right way to go about requesting that a service add new features to your liking. Nor does it motivate us any more into adding this as a new privilege.
There was no promise of "See all Verified user Photos" when you signed up for VIP.
Please see the very many VIP Member benefits listed below:
[quote]This does not seem like the right way to go about requesting that a service add new features to your liking. Nor does it motivate us any more into adding this as a new privilege.[/quote]
Then I guess we are both unmotivated/demotivated by the situation.
I hoped the fact some people [i]pay[/i] for the service would be a source of some motivation to you but, if not, then all I can do is take your response into account next time my subscription is due.
@fazer1k Please re-read your comments here. It's just the very negative way you came here and complained about regretting paying for VIP, just because we didn't let you see all verified photos. Have you considered that we are also humans and we might have not had the chance yet to think of including that as a benefit for VIP? Not because we don't think about our VIP users, but simply because we were overwhelmed with so much feedback from our members, and the most important groups (in a user point of view) was to allow Friends and Verified users to see their personal photo.
I'm sure you know very well that we've always followed the philosophy of listening to our members, and we would have very happily considered your suggestion if you had formulated your message as a Suggestion rather than a Complaint.
When you paid for VIP, you paid for the features that were listed. We've been adding new benefits as we think of them (or when users suggest them).
There's also a benefit that every user on Similar Worlds has, that other websites rarely provide (even when you pay): the admins listen to the users and actually INTERACT with them. Your complaint of "why not visible to VIP? that's fundamentally wrong." would only make sense if any of us had already confirmed that VIP was out of question here. But we didn't, simply because no one had suggested yet.
This is what Andrew tried to explain. Negativity rarely brings positivity. Thank you for supporting the website (and we followed our promise of providing you with all the VIP benefits). We will consider allowing VIPs to see verified photos.
