One thing ultimately that could probably help with that is push notifications via an app if it ever gets to that point. Having a note pop up when someone verifies you would most likely make people come back at bare minimum to check out the vote

Good morning warriors! This page has a huge potential and if people help each other it goes a long way, I always see a lot of people online but almost nobody voting for a profile, I think it doesn't cost anything for each one to donate 5 minutes to check it, even if it's a profile because I'm sure that this will reset the pendencies... Thank you for your attention, warriors. Together we are stronger Oss

I get private messages like that. They won't even vote for my students. Oh well

Inbox me anytime for verification of your students. I gotcha

I wouldn't say it's harsh Giles, just that's just the standard you have set and it should be respected. Everyone has their own criteria and thats what makes this platform great, because even though we have these differences we all still have the same interest. This is why together we are stronger. We train, we teach, we struggle, we strive, but Beltchecker allows all us likeminded people to interact, learn and swap ideas with each other, we can even agree or disagree with whatever is discussed and thats the joy of it. I have one question for you though. If Roger Gracie was on Beltchecker would you vote for him or not based on your criteria.

I know Roger in person, so yeah. ;) But some other big name I haven't met? Nope, wouldn't vote for them.

Ideally we would still vote mostly on the people we have met in real life in our various travels and can vouch for from experience, right? Then, six-degrees of separation style, https://en.wikipedia.org/[...]separation vouching for people that are separated by one degree, creating a web of trust. https://en.wikipedia.org/[...]b_of_trust [citation needed] 'Hey I met Benoit and Dimitri during my trips to Belgium, they're solid practitioners and if they vouch for xyz with a solid profile in this other country I've never been to, I have no reason to doubt them.' It becomes more difficult for folks in faraway places, right now in Japan we are still very under-represented! I do my part to bring it up 'Beltchecker dot com' ベルトチェッカードットコム？ なにそれ？ 帯をオンラインで証明する世界中のコミュニティがいる、面白いですよ＾＾オープンソースみたいなもので、分権化なイメージ、あの組織と違って。 I should get my main coach to register, currently he's just looking into getting the IBJJF to recognize the Black Belt he got in 2002... wish him luck...

I think there is a bit of a regional tipping point for this site. I can only encourage people to sign up so that I can vote for them, but I find that people in my area are resistant to signing up to belt checker. Perhaps they don't trust a site that demands they verify their identity or there are so few people regionally that they think they will just remain unverified? Personally I don't get it, but the point of my contribution is that despite having a pretty active BJJ scene here in Montreal, few people are on this site, which results in there not being many people to verify each other regionally (a vicious circle).