Un-Verified Accounts: What do you think about them? How long should one have to verify it?

I think it bears mentioning to the Un-Verified Members reading this that I for one, and I do believe all RP verified members, want you to verify your membership and be a part of our community. We just don't know you are for real because your aren't verified. I've seen a lot of excuses made about not wanting personal info online, etc. Well guess what, this community runs on trust, trust that we are all professionals who serve or have served our country's armed forces. The way we know you've earned our trust is by verifying that you belong here.

If you want to hang out as an unverified and watch the conversations, etc. be my guest. Just don't expect that your comments will hold any weight, because for all I know you are some pimply ass-ed, teen-aged, neer-do-well whose phishing for enough info to hack me. You in turn can rest assured that I'm not out to get you because I did verify my account.

Anyway sorry to rant, somebody made a remark that got under my skin.

All should be verified in a specific time, or shut down. Unverified accounts should be limited account.

I completely agree, it only took me a couple days to pull my paperwork to send in. I hated being unverified, I worked hard and am extremely proud to have been in the Navy, I didn't like feeling like I was somehow a poser, a fake.

I would mostly agree yes. But I actually had a Rally Point account for a long time- I had made the account but then lost the password and just lost interest in RP until I returned. When I returned, I was lazy when I submitted my DD214. RP has definitely grown and changed since the days when I initially made the profile. There's a definite online 'culture' about the place and convinced me this was a worthwhile way to keep in touch with the military community. But this is after being disappointed in places like the VFW and with other veteran issues, communication here at least as a degree of honesty to it (albeit some people on here are absolutely vicious).

Gone in three weeks. I have no patience or stomach for trolls and infiltrators. This is for us, that's it. Send a final email reminding them to verify and then delete it. Very simple and no arguments. Done.

Being as I am one of those illustrious unverified members, who has been quite active on here, I see it from both perspectives. From the perspective of someone who has been verified and everyone can see that, yes, they are who they claim to be, i see where it would be a bit disconcerting to have someone who might be anyone, posting about things. On the other hand, there are people like myself, who have responded to several emails asking for verification paperwork, and have yet to get a single reply back after asking a question or sending in documentation. Seems like admin has their hands full and I keep slipping through the cracks. Not surprising, as this is a military site. Why should the admin be any different than S1?? So, I will sit here patiently, and wait to be verified. Until such a time, I will continue to give my opinion, and if anyone dislikes it, go cry to someone who cares. My suggestion would be the anonymous Air Force dipweed who thinks they should get full Aafes benefits for the rest of their life, because they went outside the wire in Iraq at least 10 times in a deployment, so they're basically the same as a retired grunt... lol

I agree 100%, to many wanna be's out there

I agree also if you do not have a pic posted I won't speak or accept your friend request

I think unverified accounts are restricted in their ability to interact on the site. I could be wrong, but I never am, and if I am, then it should be changed immediately.

Yes let's clean house. Pretty sure ISIS is on here.