| For purposes of quantifying picks, I think only including the paid verified accounts is a good thing. For the most part, it's reasonable to assume that the verified accounts are the ones who do the most shopping, hence, would be the most reliable source for determining which shops are worth shopping at. As for unverified alts, unless you are using a whole different set of picks, the alts are just double (or more) counting your duplicate picks, which (slightly) defeats the purpose of the picks list.
But I agree that just not including unverified accounts in the new people search is a dumb way to address the picks issue. And that LL gives no indication of this is crappy too. You shouldn't need 2 search engines to do the job of one. At the very least, if LL is going to stick with this search filtering, the default response for a no profile found search should be "Please use <<link>> this search engine and try again" |