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.
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Let's get rid of the checkmark.
The indicators for nip05 not matching are plenty enough
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There is no check mark on the gossip.
I also think clients have not fully figured what overall purpose that they want to serve. Once they figure that out, the design choices will make more sense.