Will Manifold take official action against "impersonation accounts" before 2026?
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I heard some rumblings about potentially enforcing the guidelines section about impersonation:

Accounts impersonating someone may have their name changed. This means pretending to be someone you are not including individuals, groups, and organisations.

This is just one of multiple places that impersonation is listed as an unwanted thing.

There have been many accounts impersonating well known public figures over the years, including Mark Hamill, Hillary Clinton, and Donald Trump, among others. There have probably also been accounts impersonating less famous people, but I don't know all of them.

If the Manifold team makes any announcement about these accounts, bans them, punishes them, or directly changes the username (or anything else I determine is "taking official action"), then this market resolves Yes. If that does not happen, it will resolve No.

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I'd be worried about someone trying to impersonate the Manifold user who uses the name Donald Trump, for instance, rather than imagining anyone is actually trying to impersonate Donald Trump.

@Haiku That already happened and the second Trump got (temporarily) banned.

https://manifold.markets/DonaldTrump?tab=comments

"There have been many accounts impersonating well known public figures over the years, including Mark Hamill, Hillary Clinton, and Donald Trump, among others."

Do you have any proof that they are impersonators and not who they say they are???

@Kfredric Mr Trump is impersonating an 8th grade student. Is that also against the guidelines?
https://manifold.markets/realDonaldTrump/am-i-screwed-read-desc

@Kfredric Mark Hamill later changed his bio to say he was a parody account. Luigi Mangione got a verified badge.

Hillary Clinton is the real Hillary Clinton until proven otherwise.

bought Ṁ200 NO

Not that I support it, but I don't think anybody is tricked into thinking that Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump are on Manifold.

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