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                 <ul>
                     <li><a href="#certification">What does <strong>certification</strong> mean, and what is a <strong>"verification selfie"</strong>?</a></li>
                     <li><a href="#need-certification">Do I <strong>need</strong> to send a "verification selfie"?</a></li>
+                    <li><a href="#why-certify">Why the hard requirement to certify?</a> <strong class="tag is-success is-light">NEW Sept. 9 2022</strong></li>
                     <li><a href="#cannot-certify">Are there <strong>alternative options</strong> to becoming Certified?</a> <strong><span class="tag is-success is-light">NEW Sept. 8 2022</span></strong></li>
                     <li><a href="#private-avatar">Can my <strong>Profile Picture be kept private?</strong></a> <strong><span class="tag is-success is-light">NEW Sept. 8 2022</span></strong></li>
                     <li><a href="#uncertified">What can non-certified members do?</a></li>
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             on your profile page.
         </p>
 
+        <h3 id="why-certify">Why the hard requirement to certify?</h3>
+
+        <p>
+            <strong class="tag is-success is-light">NEW Sept. 9 2022</strong>
+            I didn't set out to build "just another social network" that allows for random, faceless, anonymous
+            people to sign up - you can do that literally anywhere else. This website was designed
+            <em>specifically</em> to get ahead of what happened with Tumblr, Pornhub and other sites
+            in recent history. It wasn't just a random whim of Tumblr when they kicked all of the nudists
+            and other NSFW users off of their platform -- they were pressured to do so by a vocal minority
+            of anti-porn prudes who have been working their way across the Internet and trying to make sure
+            that nudists, exhibitionists, porn stars and sex workers have no place at all to exist online.
+        </p>
+
+        <p>
+            I have been watching how these groups operate. They throw out wild claims that a website like
+            Tumblr or Pornhub is running rampant with illegal content (such as child sexually abusive material,
+            human trafficking, revenge porn or so on) and use that as a scapegoat to put pressure on a website
+            via the banks and advertisers into either bending the knee or shutting down completely. Tumblr elected
+            to just blanket ban all NSFW users from the platform, Pornhub deleted 80% of all user content from their
+            site, and Onlyfans nearly fell as well (before they decided instead to require government-issued photo
+            ID from their members, which I do not want to do).
+        </p>
+
+        <p>
+            This group wildly exaggerates statistics and misrepresents their finding to push along an agenda
+            which is <em>really</em> just anti-porn, period; but the fact of the matter is that <em>any</em> wide
+            open public website that allows random people to just sign up and start posting things will always
+            technically leave room for those kinds of claims to be thrown around. If a website doesn't require a
+            user to verify their face, you'll get bad actors who sign up blank, throwaway accounts (probably hiding
+            behind a VPN, too, to conceal their location) and start spreading god awful things on a site and it becomes
+            a game of whack-a-mole for site moderators to keep on top of (not to mention the trauma it causes for
+            moderators who need to deal with all that shit). I don't want <em>any</em> of that nonsense
+            on this website.
+        </p>
+
+        <p>
+            The certification requirement should help curb a lot of that and bring some other nice benefits
+            besides for the other members of this site:
+        </p>
+
+        <ul>
+            <li>
+                It will deter blank, faceless profiles from signing up and then sliding into your DMs and getting
+                all pervy and weird on you. This happens <em>so freaking often</em> on other nudist websites and
+                nobody likes that - we are here posting our nude pics out in the open and don't want random anonymous
+                creepers who won't reveal themselves in an equally meaningful way.
+            </li>
+            <li>
+                It will help keep automated spam robots at bay; a non-certified account will have a terrible time
+                trying to discover any user here that they could send their spam to, as the Forums, Member Directory
+                and Site Photo Gallery are off-limits to non-certified users.
+            </li>
+            <li>
+                It will keep members accountable: I don't expect anyone would dare upload illegal content here when
+                their certified face picture is on file.
+            </li>
+        </ul>
+
+        <p>
+            I understand that certification may be inconvenient for some members. I know there are plenty of people
+            for whom it isn't a concern at all. I may be able to work with you on an alternative method for certification;
+            see the next section, below.
+        </p>
+
         <h3 id="cannot-certify">Are there alternative options to becoming Certified?</h3>
 
         <p>
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         <p>
             Note, though: this is a social site for {{PrettyTitle}} nudists so you <strong>are</strong>
-            expected to post at least <em>some</em> pictures of yourself on your profile page. You
+            expected to post at least <em>some</em> pictures of yourself on your profile page. A face
-            could post a face pic wearing a hat and sunglasses; or you could crop out half your face
+            pic (at least a clothed, G-rated selfie) as your default profile picture is highly encouraged,
-            showing only from the chin down; or you could post full body nudes with your face censored
+            and the rest of your pics you can leave your face cropped or censored out of. And your profile
-            out with an emoji character.
+            picture can be marked private or "friends only" if you like; see below.
         </p>
 
         <h3 id="private-avatar">Can my Profile Picture be kept private?</h3>
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         <h3 id="nudes-required">Do I have to post my nudes here?</h3>
 
         <p>
-            You must be comfortable with doing so, yes. On some other nudist social websites, many
+            You should be comfortable with doing so, but it isn't a hard requirement. On some
-            nudists have lamented to me about how often they get messages by anonymous, faceless
+            other nudist social websites, many nudists have lamented to me about how often they
-            profiles who slide into their DMs and get all pervy and weird on them. While
+            get messages by anonymous, faceless profiles who slide into their DMs and get all
-            {{PrettyTitle}} only requires a face pic and verification selfie, other members will
+            pervy and weird on them. While {{PrettyTitle}} only requires a face pic and verification
-            feel more comfortable if you post some of your own nudes as well.
+            selfie, other members will feel more comfortable if you post some of your own nudes as well.
+        </p>
+
+        <p>
+            It's kind of like nude beach etiquette: no nudist at a nude beach enjoys it much when
+            people arrive who refuse to get naked and they're just there to gawk and be a peeping
+            tom and perv out over all the naked bodies they see. If you don't want to post any
+            nudes here, at least don't act weird or creepy with people here.
         </p>
 
         <h3 id="face-in-nudes">Do I have to include my face in my nudes?</h3>