What is verification?

"Verification" is the process of proving that the person in the picture consents to being photographed and posted, or better yet, is the actual submitter of the link. Verification is optional insofar as it is not automatically required for every single participant. However, moderators always reserve the right to require submitters to verify.

When users call you out to submit verification, it's always your call whether or not you do it. But if a mod questions the authenticity of a submission, you are absolutely required to verify before posting further (and you may even be banned until you do so). We care about the person in the photographs and want to make sure he or she is not being exploited. Please pardon the inconvenience if we require you to verify or ask you to improve your verification pics. We're just trying to look out for you.

How do I get verified?

Post an album to Gonewild that contains at least three color pictures of you holding a handwritten paper sign that includes: Your exact reddit username,Today's date, including the year (must match the date you submit the post). NEW FOR 2020: Please spell out the month: "January 7th 2020" or "Jan 7th 2020" not "1/7/2020" (US) or"7/1/2020" (non-US).

1. A mention of @ r/gonewild_nynj (to confirm the person holding the sign knows where it is being posted). We will not verify if it only mentions "GW"

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.

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

Be at least partially naked, with topless or bottomless nudity visible in multiple pictures. You're requesting verification in an exhibitionist community, so you should probably be. exhibiting. You'll see this repeated in the FAQ: We don't want to pressure you into doing something you don't want to do. But if being naked makes you uncomfortable, this might not be the right place for you.

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 unclothed body.

Your post title should have the word "verification" in it. "Veri(f) cation" and "Veri[f]ication" are also acceptable, if you're working an "f" tag into the title.

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.

You banned me pending verification, so how am I supposed to post my verification photos?

Sorry about that. It's nothing personal. Submit your verification photos as links inside a Message to the Moderators. We'll verify you privately first, unban you, and then you can make your public verification post to get the flair.