Community Validated User Profiles
alanthonyc: Hi everyone,Thanks for all your feedback.  Your comments are well appreciated.  I had come up with many of the same objections as well, but didn't have anyone to bounce the basic idea off.  (I guess this is where having that co-founder comes in handy, as pg suggests.)@notaddicted - that was a good read, thanks.@TallGuyShort - your perfectly valid point would be solved by a solution that brings up other problems (i.e. who would be the trusted authority for validating accounts) as per notaddicted's linkIn the end, some subtler means of identifying, managing and controlling the undesirable accounts would be better.  I'm thinking along the lines of what pg is doing with this site with karma thresholds, etc.Thanks again for all your insight.