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  1. Have a way to filter out bots solicitation and scams

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    Anonymous commented  · 

    There NEEDS to be some method of verifying that the person's profile pic is genuine. The amount of catfish in play on this app is a plague. It's impossible to know for sure, but I believe I am sent messages by fraudulent profiles on the order of 2x more than legitimate ones. There's a LOT of people misrepresenting who they are by using photos of different people. There's a ton of ways profile verification could be done. First, make it optional. That way it doesn't **** off the users who want to remain completely anonymous. I'd wager a decent bet that those of us who use this app legitimately will want to be able to prove to others we are who we say we are, and seek the same in return. It doesn't need to involve any personal information. Make it a multi-factor verification. Nothing will be completely bulletproof, but, something that would involve locking a profile to hardware by IMEI plus a face pic taken with the camera (lock out camera roll) in some sort of requested pose that is then stored and fingerprinted. Then the user could additionally opt-in to more advanced stuff... Some ideas: use facial recognition to prevent other people from trying to dupe someone already verified and locked by IMEI to a different profile in the system. Allow the user to prevent photos they've sent from ever being sent again by a different profile (more image recognition). Allow the user with the verified profile to optionally verify additional photos they send in messages by forcing the 'verified' pics be sent directly from the camera (no camera roll) - this to add some authenticity to pics not involving the face. Again, all of this stuff being optional. Not offering the choice of anything whatsoever at present is killing the "community" right now.

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