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#11
I keep forgetting where i am....
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#12
Yea, sorry... I posted it in public deliberately because I wanted as many people as possible to have access to this information and understand the implications... but do watch what you say.

Ana and Lola - please do let us know on the other thread what impact it has on your hit rate... Smile x
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#13
Okay, been in looooooong e-mail conversation with AW over this... I'm not going to post the whole conversation, but I will give a brief summary.

Essentially they've said they are kind of between a rock and a hard place because they are trying to clamp down on the fake profiles and people who abuse the site, and one of the tools they can use is the verification photo... but it has to be kind of self policing... so the pic has to be available for guys to check against pics the find in the galleries to make sure it is the same girl and that the pics in the gallery haven't just been robbed off the internet.

What I've said is that as only 2.5% of profiles show their verification pic, it's a bit of a broken arrow.

I've also said that as all cam girls are fully verified, whether or not they choose to show their verification pic is slightly moot.

And furthermore, I've made the point that escorts count on discretion so as not to become "known" in the local community, and not to have our homes or working apartments marked down as knocking shops, because if they were then our clients would not be safe to come and go as they pleased, discreetly and anonymously.

And the other point I've made is that as many, many girls choose to obscure their faces in their free galleries, the verification pic doesn't need the face to be shown because it won't help the guy to make an informed decision if he can't see the faces on the images he is comparing it to! But if we were allowed to obscure our faces in the verification pic, then at least he would be able to compare body size and shape and hair colour and style and so on. Showing our faces in our verification pic when we obscure it in our galleries would just be outing ourselves for no benefit.

Anyway... I do have some sympathy with Adultwork. It is impossible to please everyone and what every they do they are going to upset someone somewhere! But they are working quite hard at the moment to try to weed out the scammers.

I'll let you know the outcome.
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(09-03-2013, 13:17)Trinity-Belle Wrote: Okay, been in looooooong e-mail conversation with AW over this... I'm not going to post the whole conversation, but I will give a brief summary.

Essentially they've said they are kind of between a rock and a hard place because they are trying to clamp down on the fake profiles and people who abuse the site, and one of the tools they can use is the verification photo... but it has to be kind of self policing... so the pic has to be available for guys to check against pics the find in the galleries to make sure it is the same girl and that the pics in the gallery haven't just been robbed off the internet.

What I've said is that as only 2.5% of profiles show their verification pic, it's a bit of a broken arrow.

I've also said that as all cam girls are fully verified, whether or not they choose to show their verification pic is slightly moot.

And furthermore, I've made the point that escorts count on discretion so as not to become "known" in the local community, and not to have our homes or working apartments marked down as knocking shops, because if they were then our clients would not be safe to come and go as they pleased, discreetly and anonymously.

And the other point I've made is that as many, many girls choose to obscure their faces in their free galleries, the verification pic doesn't need the face to be shown because it won't help the guy to make an informed decision if he can't see the faces on the images he is comparing it to! But if we were allowed to obscure our faces in the verification pic, then at least he would be able to compare body size and shape and hair colour and style and so on. Showing our faces in our verification pic when we obscure it in our galleries would just be outing ourselves for no benefit.

Anyway... I do have some sympathy with Adultwork. It is impossible to please everyone and what every they do they are going to upset someone somewhere! But they are working quite hard at the moment to try to weed out the scammers.

I'll let you know the outcome.

Thanks for this and do keep us updated.

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#15
all i can say is you are all SO brave. i am not even verified - too paranoid about a company (especially a company of this nature) keeping my details with all the scares there's been with stuff being left on trains etc. god, i'm paranoid enough about having to do the 18+ verification thing for my work phone.

good luck though, hope you get it sorted.
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#16
I am verified and some guy who I replied to a reverse booking thought I was fake, even though I show my face on my profile! Couldn't believe it lol
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#17
I emailed them too and got this back today:

Quote:Hello

There is a bit of ambiguity about this and we are reviewing the situation.

You'll appreciate there is some merit in excluding those that hide their
faces - in some scenarios this is because they are involved in some
deception. It seems all our attempts to combat timewasters/fakes does
indeed impact on legitimate advertisers. We need to find a balance.

The time now has probably come to remove the "Has Verification Photo"
(excluding those that hide their pic) tick box and put in "Fully Verified
Members Only".

We'll just wait for the backlash from everyone about how they do not find
it acceptable to become verified on AW.

Regards

The AdultWork.com Team
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#18
Yes, that was one of the suggestions I made.

I also suggested, in addition to changing the search from a search for members with a var pic to a search for verified members, that maybe fully verified members should be allowed to obscure their faces in the var pic on the grounds that AW do have a full face pic in the form of their ID docs, and for girls who obscure their faces in their gallery photos, showing it in the var pic does not help the guys to establish authenticity at all because they have nothing to compare it to! So the best they can do is compare general sort of height, weight, build, hair colour/style and so on.... which would be no different to what they would be able to do if the var pic had the face obscured?

I made the point that for a lot of escorts, hiding their face is more to do with discretion than it is to do with privacy, as if we become known in our local area as working girls, then it will no longer be safe for guys to visit without risking being "spotted" by some curtain twitching nosy neighbour.

Seems to me that searching for verified members works far better than searching for the small number of girls who actually display their verification pic... and it chimes well with AWs push to get girls verified. It doesn't benefit me, of course, because I'm not verified!

Another suggestion I made was one was about allowing girls to upload two versions of the var pic, one with full face for AWs use only, and another copy of the same pic but with face obscured which could be displayed publicly... but obviously that would require some amount of development so couldn't be implemented terribly quickly (or cheaply) and it would mean that they would have to police it to a certain extent, which with over a hundred thousand profiles and counting, they probably don't really want to do?
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