that's exactly the point. why would anybody have to hold this  sign and show their faces?
You are doing secret writer posts for people who want / need to stay anonymous, yet you ask someone to reveal their identity.

If you didn't hear, "asians" are very shy ( at least that;s my experience living over 30years in asia)

And I didn't know that  newbie are forced to do an introduction post. what a scandal ;)

I have to ask you, why MUST I? You dont have the right to ask me to do that sign, i dont have an introduce myself post because I just dont want to (im not that kind of person who says much about  herself in pubilc), im here just to express my food passion to foodholics just like me. And Im very happy that I had a chance to know some great food reporters here, for example @knozaki2015. Please dont mention my name as A ROBOt, and english is not my mother language, therefore sometimes it becomes "weird" (as you say), but its not my fault lol. I will try to improve my english so that it's not weird anymore, is it okay ? 
Once again, we're not forced to prove ourselves here, Its up to us whether we want to show who we are. Some people claimed that they are someone famous, these people may have to write that "steemit sign", Im not claiming anything but only "i love food, i am an asian" so why must I have to post my picture if I dont want to???

https://s10.postimg.io/jbpfzwhl5/stellab.png

force?

I never held up a sign, and nobody has ever once questioned my personhood or my claimed identity.

I never held up a sign either.  

The holding up a sign thing is worse than useless.  Just pay a model $5 to do it.  If we need to authenticate people vs whatever, then have them validate against their other social media account.

It's about content.  It doesn't matter who specifically the author is. If you really feel like someone is being overpaid, let the whales know and ask them why they are paying this much for bad content.

How about you stop harassing users to hold up pointless signs?  Thanks.

>forced

lol no one is forced to verify anything, I thought that has been obvious since the start and a big part of decentralization. Even in [my post](https://steemit.com/newcomers/@acidyo/what-verifying-your-account-in-introduceyourself-means-and-what-it-doesn-t-necessarily-have-to-mean) that I created as a newbie here I made it clear no one has to verify their account, but if they want to and gain trust that way as a user of the platform, then my post would help them how to properly do it.

Were you forced to post your phone number on a public slack channel?

No one is forced to do that :P

dude leave people alone