@Wombat
verified tag is mostly about important people like testers/moderators/mappers/admins so you can contact them and kinda know that they are real
at the beginning only guys from the forum were here, so it was better back then. it is hard to be 100% secure that somebody is truely himself. If somebody is known in the community he can't be faked that easily if he has to write a forum pm, so the verified tag is kinda usefull