People Please stop voting for profiles with no verified proof of belt rank. If you are not self policing and voting for profiles with no pictures, no videos, no competition evidence, nothing!! You are not helping you are part on the problem. PLEASE PEOPLE VOTE WITH INTEGRITY!! otherwise FAKE profiles will start popping up and like a virus will infect a great BJJ community site. It up to us to police and maintain a measure of standards. Voting for a profile that have no verifiable evidence of rank is a problem.

on top they comment, 'well documented' What documents? Not even a photo to speak of.

However, half of those you contested had votes from teammates, so you cannot discount those votes as they have intimate knowledge of the person.

...btw I just realize we need 'Well documented OSS' on a rashguard or coffee mug something

Absolutely I would definitely buy one 4 sure

this could be the best way of raising money for the site :D

Mark is building a nice little list of contested votes. However, half of those you contested had votes from teammates, so you cannot discount those votes as they have intimate knowledge of the person.

Matt just because teammates vote for someone doesn't equate to documentation. I know some coaches will verify up he/she is a student of mine without much though myself included. If that were the case then Christian should turn the site into a jiu-jitsu popularity community page. Pictures, video amd social media are more important to show that a jiu-jitsu practitioner is living the jiu-jitsu journey. I don't even look at who voted for someone for the most part, I want my evaluation to be non bias, and based on the facts that the user in their profile presents to me.. my belief I'm if it were a resume for a job would it on face value get me or them that job. l know some old time jiu-jitsu practioners don't have pictures from 20, to 30 years ago, but in most cases can be explained, there lineage, and there training partner are their documentation. I started training back in 2001, and I was still able to manage to locate one picture of my bluebelt days. When I verify/vote for someone here I try and check everything I possibly can before I give my vote. So yes I will dispute a profile even with a coach and teammates vote with no other supporting documents. My reasoning is stated above

That’s fair but I was just pointing out that some of the votes were from people that actually know them, so they weren’t just randomly voting for a person without any basis. I looked at all their votes because that’s what kind of free time of working with at the moment lol.

I NEED a 'we documented OSS' shirt

I think Christian has a whole set of merchandising coming from this post. lol

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I NEED a 'we documented OSS' shirt

this could be the best way of raising money for the site :D

Nothing like an inside joke

The automatic go to for me is promotion pictures first, then other votes, if teammates/students/coaches or others say they know them or rolled with them that is usually more than enough proof for me, failing that (if a new profile) competition podiums, training pictures. For some reason that is the order I always end up going in. I haven’t disputed anyone yet as I’m a polite wimp