If hired you'll suggest people for verification and the entire team will vote to decide if they should be verified or not.
This essentially turns @steemverify branded verification into vouchment by the team. In other words, everyone else is to trust the team, or a majority of them at least (if you vote by majority).
Since we're in the decentralized ideo-sphere here, I'm curious about the governance of the team. Will it be run in a traditional hierarchy, i.e. @dalt or whoever picks who is in the team and can also revoke membership?
This may seem facetious or pedantic but bear with me. The point is whether verification is worth anything depends on trust in @steemverify and so trust in the team and its members. If the team has a definite leader then the responsibility of this trust can be delegated to them, but if not the team members matter a lot more.
Team members suggest accounts, and at least 50% of the team needs to vote yes for the verification to take place.
Keep in mind there is still basic verification guidelines that team members are expected to acknowledge. They can't just recommend random people they have to be eligible.
The same voting procedure needs to take place when hiring/firing people. Though we reserve the right to kick people out of the team if they are inactive.
For obvious reasons @steemitqa and I can't be fired. As we host and develop the service.
Voting is a courtesy. We could've easily launched this service without relying on votes, but we wanted it to be a democratic and unbiased system.
The only time somebody is verified without voting is if they are an official Steemit, Inc. team member or a Steem Verify team member.
Thanks for the detail. Are you going to publish the guidelines publicly?
What do you mean a courtesy? I would have thought it is fundamental to the structure of the new @steemitqa verification system? I ask because I believe whether it does or does not include voting matters greatly in the value of being "verified". I think many other people would agree with me in this interpretation.
Also I would suggest a higher level of agreement, say 70%. But that's just me 😄