Twitter, It’s Time to End Your Anything-Goes Paradise<br />“You set up a system that encourages positive behaviors, and discourages others — so all of a sudden people see<br />that the more trusted you are, the more reach you get,” said Anil Dash, a software executive in New York who has spent years creating and managing online communities, and who floated the broad outlines of this plan in a recent interview.<br />The blue check system started out as a simple way to verify a person’s identity — a kind of trademark for ensuring<br />that a tweet from an account with the name Donald J. Trump had come from the real Donald J. Trump<br />The company is currently remaking its unworkable verification system — the blue check mark it awards to<br />some high-profile accounts, an icon whose precise meaning is unclear, but that confers many privileges.<br />But as you gained trust and rights on the network, your check mark would change color — it’d turn blue, then green, then perhaps gold.<br />The better you used the service — where “better” is determined, as much as possible, based on how<br />others react to your account — the more status you’d earn, and the more you’d be allowed to do.<br />Dash suggested that instead of a blue check mark, everyone might start out with, say, a gray one.
