How to safeguard the community
I want my community beeing a save place. That means not everybody should joyn the community. Till now i use a paywall that gives me the security that the new members are real since i have an e-mail and a name and a creditcard that is connected to a real account.
Now i want to change, that there is no paywall anymore. How can i make shure that those new Members are real persons and not hiding their real identity??
Tobias Ain IMHO without linking user to a "purchase", user verification will be challanging and probably "expensive".
You can ask users for their phone number while registering account (double opt-in / send a one-time passcode via SMS or voice call to the provided phone number) but still it wont be perfect solution (temp phone numbers can be used).
Maybe you can use a social login so only users with a social platform account can register - in this case you dont waste your time/money for users verification but on the other hand not everybody use social media and it is also possible to create a fake account.
Having any other KYC procedure for a community user verification wont bring any extra value when you compare it to your investment.
Additional checks could be performed:
- Manual review
- Other social media profile cross-referencing
- User referrals
- Karaoke verification (users sing a snippet of a random song and submit the video for authenticity LOL but still... AI can generate it)
Dont waste too much time on implementing something that wont attract users and they will go somewhere else.
Just let your community grow.
PS. I hope you didnt store unencrypted credit cards in your wordpress db.
I allow login/sign-up only via social login. You can apply it to your platform.