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Do a video series and explain out how to join and that it takes time to get verified. I think it is better now but a month ago was taking users up to a couple weeks to get final verification.

Oh yeah good call, it only took me a matter of minutes, hopefully that keeps up!

Something many new members don't realize is that the system has to pay for you to join. It is about 30$ in value as I understand it. So if the number of new applications is way up the whole process slows down.