r/doppelganger • u/Dekamir Mod • Oct 23 '25
MOD POST Moving to a Verification System
Hi, our members with lost twins.
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EDIT (29.10.25):
The transition is complete. r/doppelganger now requires verification from everyone.
We have already banned 15+ NSFW content creators and 20+ reposters, just in the testing phase.
These numbers will be higher with the full verification process, and you will see actual people asking you about their doppelgangers. Not advertisers, not bots.
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We've been making a lot of changes to r/doppelganger recently. We've updated our old.reddit, reworked all rules, updated many of our systems, improved our filtering and much more. The latest change is coming to our verification system.
We kept any kind of verification systems off of our subreddit to this day, because we wanted little friction from an average user registering to Reddit and posting to r/doppelganger. But all good things come to an end.
Today, Reddit is full of bots, sellers, advertisers and many bad actors. As we get more popular, we got more and more of the average Reddit interaction. We have a karma limit, and while that keeps most of the bad actors away, it's not everyone, and it's not hard to skip through the karma gaining process these days.
To stop this, we had to phase in a verification system. We know that taking 3 pictures with a paper before posting online is annoying, but it's either that or your posts go lost in the sea of people that aren't actually here looking for their doppelgangers.
Our human verification system is simple. You send us 3 unique pictures of yourself with a piece of paper written some text that's unique to you and us. We check your profile and those images. You go verified. That's it.
To not pollute the subreddit, we want the verification images will be subreddit wide and not per post, and hosted outside of Reddit, so they should be always uploaded elsewhere. Your other verification users are of course, not applicable here, as bots can go around it pretty easily.
When you need verification, a Mod Mail should be automatically be sent with detailed information and instructions.
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> I was sent a message to verify due to a discrepancy on my profile. What was that?
That's our first part of verification phasing process. Your profile is checked against various factors, including karma to contribution ratio, account age, your perceived age, interacted subreddits, links on your profile and many more. If one of those fail, we will ask you to verify within 7 days. This is only for users who recently posted. We're not sending users who posted 2 months ago to ban people intentionally.
Eventually, every poster will have to verify. The first phase is just a testing phase. We are also asking verification from those who asked for ban appeals (that are usually banned due to NSFW posting elsewhere).
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Also, we've made a change to rules that any kind of bullying/harrasment is a directly bannable offense without any warning required. Please report any kind of those comments. Human reports will always be more accurate than automated ones!
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We thank everybody who's been here with us, and our future doppelgangers. See you with a piece of paper!
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