Photo Verification For All Onsite?

ETA announced, rollout 1st of June;
https://socialswinging.com/threads/photo-verifications-across-the-site-in-effect-june-the-1st.5152/

Well that's 2-3 bans and 5 deletions today so far.
PV will have an effect, short term will sting... Hopefully long term the benefits will pay off. This is one hell of a gamble and as mentioned by a member of staff earlier; totally new territory. So let's see what happens.
I do believe in the long run, the benefits will be worth it.

ChanniBill said:

We have literally just joined the site and we're happy to to do.

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Indeed, have just done your media and account etc - welcome and I look forward to it! x

Well this is it! We're the world's first swinging site to do a fully face photo verified site.

Please note;
This is now LIVE. We have enforced PV across the site.
You have 7 days in which to become photo verified if new, and if a current member registered for longer than 7 days, you could get locked out.

I am expecting some issues, we're live as of right now and as such there may be teething problems.

We must stress, if you're locked out and your account gets limited, this is why - you must PV today. (If registered here more than 7 days).
Thank you,
Admin. x

I can confirm, everything's worked as expected.
People who registered over 7 days ago and not PV'd, have been locked out whilst others who have PV'd are carrying on as normal.
So far, so good.

I'd like to thank all of you who voted and took the time to provide feedback on this a very important discussion and major site decision.
Of course due to your feedback, we agreed to do it, enforced it and rolled it out.
We know that having a fully face photo verified site, is a double edged sword;
It will weed out people who pretend to be people they're not
It will cost us in numbers in the short term; we will lose members, we have lost members and we've banned a huge amount.

However, the hope and plan is in the long run it will attract swingers among us on other sites, or people new to the lifestyle - with a view that they're safer here knowing that every account is a photo verified account and therefore who they say they are.
PV does NOT prove that the account is a genuine swinger etc only they're who they say they are.

It's a huge decision for us and could possibly have the complete adverse effect.. we know that initially we're going to take a hit with numbers. 100% and I ask that you please take this into consideration for a little while, until more people find the idea of PV an attractive one and join.
Just please bear this in mind..

Aside from that, this can only be a good thing for us as a site and as a swinging community on the whole. Our original start to this was always to try and change things for the better, back in 2014.. It's things like this, going fully PV'd that help contribute to making things better for us and for you, within this lifestyle.

Thank you all for taking the time to discuss and vote for this, which is an enormous decision and direction to take.
I hope the gamble pays off for us all. x

PS I meant to say - locked as we've done what was requested, hence my post thanking everyone.
Thanks again all.
Admin x