It’s not, but you can’t blame people when you repurpose the same checkmark that major social media platforms use to denote verification. It’s like putting a 🛑 sign at an intersection and being surprised that people think they need to stop.
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Oh I agree. I've been trying to educate people that clients are causing confusion with their checkmarks for 5 months now. One client added the checkmark and then all of them followed suit because that's what we're used to seeing over the last decade across social networking sites.