Why are you telling the world you are illiterate???

Posted by Bj aka Bill Brown
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That is exactly what you are doing when you upload a profile picture that is NOT a picture of yourself.

It states clearly below the browse button for selecting Your APSense Profile Photo,

"Please upload a photo of yourself."

    Please upload a photo of yourself. It will be shared across all your profiles.
    The size of a picture must be larger than 100x100.
    You must have the permission to use or be the copyright holder of any images you upload to this site.


Note Bene

The word "YOURSELF" in the first item
and
all of item three,
 "You must have the permission to use or be the copyright holder of any images you upload to this site"
which, incidentally is repeated everywhere there is an upload button.

So... when will YOU learn to READ INSTRUCTIONS?!

I have just rejected eight profile photos. 5 were images of logos, hence not Personal Pictures.
3 were pictures of humans that were scraped from the Internet, so again not personal pictures.

YES, I CAN tell, which are real within seconds, so STOP wasting your time and, subsequently, you will  stop wasting the time of those authorized to vet profile images.

That is the ones that carry out their task correctly.
Unfortunately, there are those that are empowered to authorize profile pictures that have no regard nor respect for the rules, and should never have been permitted to attain the privilege.

It was assumed that by the time people reached the level set to allow profile picture authorization they would have a complete understanding of what is required of them.
Alas that has proven not to be the case, and thus we do have a mass of profile pictures all screaming into the world,  "I am illiterate I cannot  read the rules."

Considering these people are wanting to make contacts and earn the trust of other members they are certainly not going to do it with the higher more experienced echelons of the  membership. Yes, they will attract the tire kickers who join every thing they see, but never put their hands in their pockets.
So The question is, are you going to shout out Hi this is me. Come and read my profile and see if I have something that interests you? Rather than shouting-out to the world that you are illiterate?