I look forward to news and updates, your project. It's good to see how it develops. I really like the design and structure. Just do not have enough live communication with active users, followers and those who promote my photos. It seems to me that the addition of chat will allow more active struggle with fake users. Since it is an exclusively live communication that will not allow them to remain unnoticed.
By adding a tracking of the activity of communication to your algorithms to control false promotion, I think you can optimize this work even more.
Since chatting with mail is different than chatting in real time. And does not allow you to track the user at the current moment.
But this is my personal opinion, because sometimes I do not know whether I'm voting for a real person or some kind of fake account. I try to be friendly with all users. And many of them after actively support me. But I would like to be sure that these are real people. And that they really like my pictures, and if they do not like hearing constructive criticism.
We share your concerns and currently are working on addition verification measures. We will also offer a method to verify real identity in the future, and such verified accounts will have a corresponding badge to indicate that.
Developing a chat instead of messaging communication is in our future plans, but first we will be working on an additional features that we are sure you going to love. But these will be disclosed before the launch.