** Verification Instructions **

Verification is now available. If you'd like to become an approved user that will allow you to show you are real and be able to post any time, please read below. Verification isn't required to post, but can show that you are real and not catfishing.

Click to send u/Icy-Maximum-6745 a message with at least 3 photos, which include:

1. Your exact reddit username.

2. Today's date, including the year (must match the date you submit the post). Please spell out the month: "January 10th 2023" or "Jan 10th 2023", not "1/10/2023" (US) or "7/10/2023" (non-US).

3. A mention of /r/SwingersFortMyers (to confirm the person holding the sign knows where it is being posted). We will not verify if it doesn't.

Important:

• Use black or blue ink on white or light color paper. Hold the paper sign in your fingers, bending it slightly, in at least 3 pictures. Do not color-correct or do any other type of digital manipulation on the photos.

• Couples, pictures MUST contain both members, together, in the photos. Seperate pics of each half doesn't work for verification purposes.

• Keep your sign! We might ask you to take additional pictures.

• Show as much of your body as possible. If we can't match the body depicted in your verification pictures to the body in your past and future posts, then it's not a meaningful verification. So while you do not have to post your face, we do need to see a good amount of your body.

• Make sure each shot of the sign is at a slightly different angle (as opposed to being "straight-on"). If you want to go the extra mile for us, crumple the sign up into a ball and then take your pictures with the sign uncrumpled! This creates a lot of random angles in the paper, and convinces the mods and users that the sign was not photoshopped.

• Be prepared to be slightly inconvenienced by us. We want to make sure you're you! If we ask you to resubmit pictures, you are NOT being singled out. We do this all the time. Just read these directions carefully, and hang in there. We'll get you verified!

• BE NICE ABOUT IT. We know verification can be a little annoying, but we're just looking out for the people in our pictures! We don't want anyone to be exploited. If you were asked to resubmit verification, make a new sign, or anything like that, please be chill about it. Please do not flip us off in the picture, and please do not use post titles like "The asshole mods won't show my posts unless I verify, so here you go. Fuck you." We're real people over here! We're sorry you're annoyed, but if you make the process more difficult or make us hate our jobs, we're simply not going to prioritize your verification.

• Please do not take the picture with a potato. If you're stuck with a crappy webcam, you may be able to mitigate the issue by making sure there is TONS of light in the room from multiple sources. But if your verification pictures are so low quality that we can't read the sign or be reasonably sure it wasn't faked, we might deny your verification.

• Color Pictures / No filters / No editing. The photos should be high resolution and unedited so that they are more likely to pass our photoshop detection tests. Do not adjust the color or convert them to black and white. If there is anything you do not want seen (tattoos, marks) then pose the pictures in such a way that they are not visible. Do not change pixels/blur/etc. Do not apply instagram filters or anything similar to your verification photos. You can do that to your other submissions, but this is not the time for that (sorry).

Do I have to show my face?

Absolutely not! The purpose of verification is NOT to connect your picture to a real live person, but rather to connect the picture to the reddit username. We don't care about who you are in real life and we don't even want to know. All we care about is that you are in the photo and you consent to being posted.

Couples, pictures MUST contain both members, together, in the photos. Separate pics of each half doesn't work for verification purposes.

Please allow up to 24 hours to become approved user.

Happy hunting, and thanks for being supportive of the changes to the sub in order to improve it for all of us!