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"Prospective members of Women's Park confirm their identity by sending a postcard to the company, and all messages sent to the site are checked before being posted."

I don't get it. How does sending a postcard to a site confirm your identity? I can understand the site sending out a postcard with a verification code on it but for the user to send in a postcard doesn't seem to make sense.

Besides that it looks like an interesting phenomenon. Simply increasing the latency of posts would probably improve the quality. With no instant gratification many trolls simply wouldn't bother posting.

This seemed flawed to me, "To post opinions in the Tsukurepo section, advance approval from those who introduced the recipes is necessary." I bet all the reviews are raving. Seems like a nice way to stifle differing opinions.



Perhaps just the higher cost of joining, i.e. sending a postcard vs filling out an online form, makes people value the site more psychologically.


I suppose lack of raving reviews counts as a negative reception, and perhaps the control over reviewers makes people more likely to post tentative recipes...




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