To Verify Your Account Now:

Click Here to Go to the Verification Page

If you would like to read more about verification first, continue on.

How Verification Works:

Members who have passed profile verification will have a (verified) link displayed next to their title on their profile page. This link lets other members know that their identity can be trusted.

In order to pass verification, members must upload two verification photos that are reviewed by a site operator or verification moderator. A handwritten "salute document" must be visible in the first photograph where the member has written out the name of their DS profile. In the second photograph, the member is asked to hold up a certain random number of fingers. These measures help to make sure that the verification photographs are authentic and not stolen from some other source.

The assigned reviewer will compare these verification pictures to the member's vital statistics (age, sex) as well as to any pictures they have already uploaded in their public galleries. The reviewer will pick out a "match picture" from the member's public gallery which they feel is a clear match to the verification pictures. This match picture is then kept on record and may be viewed by other members. By looking at someone's match picture, you can make sure that any other photographs the member has uploaded are of the same likeness. For example, if someone's match picture looked like a 45 year old man and the rest of the pictures in their gallery appeared to be of a teenage girl, you'd know that something was amiss.

Therefore, a match picture gives you a verified, reasonable visual likeness of someone.

If there is no match picture shown for a member on their verification page, this means that no matching pictures were found in their gallery at the time of their verification. In this case, the member still had to upload verification pictures which were reviewed and those pictures will be on private record for site operators to reference at any time if called into question. Even without a match picture, you know that the member posted reasonable vital statistics and that they are a real person who took the time to upload verification pictures for review. Age (based on date of birth) and sex given at the time of verification are shown on their verification page (the verification page is linked to from the verification link) .

Why Verify?

Unfortunately, it is the hobby of some people to create fake profiles. "Fakes" are usually created with pictures that have been stolen from other people's profiles or from random image searches, etc. A phony personality is created around the stolen pictures, often times also using words that are stolen from other places on the web. The "fake" will assume this fabricated identity for any number of reasons (none of them very good) often for months on end until they are discovered. Sometimes, it's fairly harmless. For example, someone might want to use pictures of a very attractive person so they can enjoy the attention they'll get. Other times, it's not so harmless. Predators may use fake identities to stalk and harass members of the community.

Verification is simply a way for everyone to help out and do their part to take action against fakes.

How to Verify Your Own Profile:

As mentioned above, when your verification is reviewed, the operator will look for a "match picture" in your regular photo gallery to match to your verification pictures. If you haven't yet uploaded a few good pictures for your regular photo gallery, you may want to do that before submitting your verification pictures. Without pictures to match against, the verification isn't quite as useful.

If you have a webcam or digital camera handy and are ready to verify your own profile:

Click Here to Go to the Verification Page