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Illinoisguy1

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IMDB now needs you to verify your account

So I was just on IMDB this morning and I was going to post a reply to a post, when all of a sudden they asked me to verify my account. So I used my amazon.com account.

Is this something new.

TeeJay

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Re: IMDB now needs you to verify your account

No, I don't think it's something new. I verified my account months ago. Maybe they're sending out reminders to users who haven't verified yet. For a while I think they very aggressively tried to keep trolls off the boards, and with the verification they want to avoid the same person having multiple accounts.

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Illinoisguy1

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Re: IMDB now needs you to verify your account

Yeah, I knew that it was for new users, but I thought if you were on there before that went into effect that you didn't have to verify your account unless you were causing trouble on the boards. Which I haven't done anything that would warrant that. Heck I don't even post on there as much as I used to.

Oh well, whatever.

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Re: IMDB now needs you to verify your account

All I know is that I was asked to verify my account a while ago, and I had been on IMDb long before they started the verification function. Don't know if others have made the same experience.

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Re: IMDB now needs you to verify your account

They didn't ask me yet, but I saw that on other user profiles.

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Re: IMDB now needs you to verify your account

Illinois, it started around the time we had that miserable troll on the AD board.  I was asked to verify back then, and I did.

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Re: IMDB now needs you to verify your account

It's happened to me before, but eventually it left me.

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Illinoisguy1

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Re: IMDB now needs you to verify your account

Well I found this one the IMDB Help message board.

We're forced to verify now?    
by Zauberer   11 hours ago (Tue Oct 28 2008 22:36:54)    
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UPDATED Tue Oct 28 2008 22:44:54
When and why did this start? Wasn't it stated a while ago they wouldn't restrict the boards to orange users?

http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000041/flat/121389933

So I wasn't the only one affected, according to them it was some sort of glitch.

Also found this.

Strong authentication problem is fixed    
by Alex   3 hours ago (Wed Oct 29 2008 06:41:53)    
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UPDATED Wed Oct 29 2008 07:33:06
Edit: This problem has now been fixed and existing / grandfathered users should now be able to post without being asked to authenticate their account. I apologise for any inconvenience caused by this problem.

Hi

We are currently looking into a problem which is causing existing users to be asked to authenticate their account before they can post.

Sorry about this, I will post again as soon as I hear anything more.

Thanks for your patience in the meantime.

Regards
Alex
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http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000041/flat/121401815

Wish I had known that before cause I didn't really want IMDB to have my info.