The Verification Standard

Who issues a record

A verified achievement is issued by the organising committee of the conference that awarded it, acting through their own dashboard on Munner. It is not entered by the delegate, and a delegate cannot create, edit or upgrade one.

What it is tied to

Every verified record is attached to a conference that has been approved to appear on Munner, with a named organising body and confirmed dates. A record cannot exist for a conference that does not.

What cannot change afterwards

Once issued, the award, the conference, the committee and the date are fixed. Delegates may add context to their own profile, and anything self-entered is displayed as self-reported — never as verified. The two are always visually distinct.

What the badge does not claim

It does not rank conferences, and it does not assert that one conference's Best Delegate is equivalent to another's. Award names vary genuinely across this circuit. Verification means this conference says this happened — not that Munner has assessed how hard it was to win.

What a self-reported entry is

Delegates can record MUNs they attended before joining Munner, or conferences that are not on the platform. Those entries are real and useful, and they are labelled as self-reported. Nothing on Munner silently promotes a self-reported entry to a verified one.

Why publish this at all

Because a verification badge that nobody can inspect is decoration. Today a delegate's record on this circuit is a free-text box on a registration form and a folder of screenshots; the only way a record becomes worth something is if the rules behind it are written down and hold still.