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by solardev 895 days ago
Thanks for the quote!

Lol, I can't believe this is really what they ended up with: multicolored stars to indicate different things? I thought it was a joke at first, but no, that's really how it works now. What a strange world...
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sp332 895 days ago
That’s why Tumblr gives you two checkmarks, and lets you pick the color. E.g. https://www.tumblr.com/amtrak-official
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qingcharles 895 days ago
lol.. I didn't know if you were joking... you weren't!
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solardev 894 days ago
Lol, if you hover over them, the label is "Important Rainbow Internet Checkmarks! Important just got colorful!"
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parineum 895 days ago
> I can't believe this is really what they ended up with: multicolored stars to indicate different things? I thought it was a joke at first

What's the issue with it?

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codetrotter 895 days ago
They used to have blue check marks which was this exclusive thing that meant that someone was important enough to have been verified. Then Elon decided to start selling blue check marks for money, so now there are apparently a bunch of different colored check marks that you need to keep track of and know the meaning of.

Whereas it used to be just. Blue check mark = this is probably the real person I think it is.

(But in this case it don’t matter anyway. They were hacked and even if we still had only blue check marks their account would have been hacked all the same.)

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jazzyjackson 895 days ago
to be fair in the app you can click on the badge and it will tell you what it means

but really it'd be better if they didn't, since it opens them up to liability, "the website said this is a government account and they verified it, what do you mean someone was impersonating the SEC"

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solardev 894 days ago
Even if it wasn't a perfect system, it was a useful system.

Old blue check = ~90% confidence that this is the person/org I think it is. Yes, mistakes happened, but by and large the verification added trust.

New blue check = This person was insecure enough to pay for a symbol. Most of them are frauds.

New grey/yellow/green/whatever check = I already forgot. Some are real, some are frauds, some are hacked, the whole system is untrustworthy.

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93po 895 days ago
Space man bad
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solardev 894 days ago
Space man good, lightning car man decent too. Unhinged speech emperor bad.
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