Encouraging existing bitcointalk users to being more users to this forum

[Findingnemo]

I will talk about this can be implemented but first let me mention the benefits.

Those who are already members here have good interest in the field of crypto and majority has invested. Now, these people might be in contact of many other people who are also interested in this field and this they can invite such users here. When such users having own crypto related experiences come here, they will share it and it will result in further organic growth and expansion of the forum. The chain will continue.

Now here are some ways this can be implemented :
1) Organizing a contest of bringing referrals to the forum and giving monetary reward to people with most referrals.
2) Another option is to give membership upgrades instead of monetary reward.

Same way it can implemented in different ways on the forum.

Now what do you think about this feature? Is it needed? Can it do any good to the bitcointalk forum?

Word of mouth is one of the best strategy to bring traffic but when we are doing it for some kind of rewards then it will end up in abusing, and the forum is not charging any fee for registering so even with the growth the forum isn't going to make money and you know people who really get interested will reasearch and end up finding this forum or everyone else are not really needed here.

[Igebotz]

Organizing a contest of bringing referrals to the forum and giving monetary reward to people with most referrals.

I can think of 56 different ways to abuse this.

That can actually be a good thing. If the admin decides to implement this, message the mod those 56 possible abuses and he will find out the security measures to avoid them.

Are you going to keep asking admin to install anti-cheating strategies on every revealed situation because LoyceV's 56 conceivable ways to defeat this system may differ from my own 60 ways of cheating the system? The truth is that those who wish to study or read about projects must make their way here one way or another without anyone telling them to; in fact, the majority of us found our way here without a referral or word from friends.

There's a good possibility that anyone interested in cryptocurrency will do some research on Satoshi, which will eventually bring you to Bitcointalk, where he once discussed bitcoin development.

There are ways people try to game the referral system in all sites. No system is 100 ℅ perfect. But many great companies have grown with the power of referral like PayPal.

We already have a large number of inactive accounts; out of the 3 million or so accounts created on Bitcoin, the active accounts number fewer than 500k (saw that stats somewhere can't remember.). The referral problem would be far worse than bounty spam..
 

[lovesmayfamilis]

OP, let's start with what is a referral program? Attracting people for all sorts of sales, earnings, any monetary interest.
The forum does not declare itself as a place to earn money, does it?
This is the place to learn about cryptocurrencies. I do not think that by making a Google request about bitcoin, a person will miss the link to this forum. Everything related to referrals is only interest related to earnings. I regularly catch alternative accounts, I am sure that the number of these accounts when using the referral system will increase several times.
People do not need to be forced to love something, interest, and enthusiasm for bitcoin should come independently, from their own conclusions.