Pros:

• If it prevents fake or duplicate users, pegging a 1:1 relationship between users here and real people.

• No more advertisement spam! 🙂

• If someone is not supposed to be allowed to gamble, then that can be enforced.

Cons:

• If lots of users find it impossible to actually get to the end of the process successfully, lots of these things end up bugged, refusing to cooperate, geo-restrictive without communicating that succinctly or clearly, etc…

• If to get help with the verification process requires having a verified account.

• If the verification process works, but the requirements are out of reach, for example requiring a document not everyone has or has practical access to.

• If new would-be users are put off by having to jump through this hoop.

(problem varied elsewhere as non-issue)

• If it gives Manifold Markets access to users documents, ID cards, etc… and Manifold are later compromised in a data breach.

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Help me decide so I can vote in this poll.

@AlanTennant seems unlikely to prevent bots. Pay someone in the Philipines 50 cents to take a selfie, done.

@JohnSmithb9be I would assume it has to visually match what some sort of ID says you are.

market:https://manifold.markets/100Anonymous/will-manifolders-think-that-the-id