Will the idea of sharing referral links be as effective?

[SatoPrincess]

One of the reasons why newbies fall to scam easily is their naivety and quest for a easy way out. They do not realize that they can fall into the wrong hands and get scammed. You do not need a mentor to use the forum, the forum rules are easy to understand.

Your mentor should be the forum search engine. You are free to follow certain users who are more knowledgeable in areas that you are interested in. You can observe how they make posts and interact with other members on the forum.

[Eternad]

Will referral links shared as invites for newbies not be a way to help add content quality to this forum?

We already have beginners and help section that let newbie create a thread and ask questions about what they want to learn. Additionally, there’s a lot of guide thread that cover almost everything that newbie wants to learn on Bitcoin coming from reputable member.

Mentorship is really good but I doubt someone reputable and knowledgeable will have a spare time mentoring someone personally while there’s a lot of reading material already available to guide newbie if they will be patient on learning.

Most of us use forum for leisure time since we have real job that occupy most of my time. Referral without anything to gain is just an excess baggage.

[examplens]

Will referral links shared as invites for newbies not be a way to help add content quality to this forum?

It is in the sense that, referral links from seniors or old knowledgeable members automatically bestows the responsibility of mentorship on the person sharing the link to the newbies of whom accepts and clicks to join through the referral links they were shared to join this Bitcoin talk forum with?

What's your opinion?

How exactly could referral spam affect the quality of the forum?
Allowing the placement of referral links would only bring more off-topic spam posts, and that has nothing to do with newbie accounts only. Many legendary members have such status only because they had enough activity before merit introduction.

[EarnOnVictor]

Will referral links shared as invites for newbies not be a way to help add content quality to this forum?

It is in the sense that, referral links from seniors or old knowledgeable members automatically bestows the responsibility of mentorship on the person sharing the link to the newbies of whom accepts and clicks to join through the referral links they were shared to join this Bitcoin talk forum with?

What's your opinion?

How exactly could referral spam affect the quality of the forum?
Allowing the placement of referral links would only bring more off-topic spam posts, and that has nothing to do with newbie accounts only. Many legendary members have such status only because they had enough activity before merit introduction.

All these centres on the benefits attached to the referral programs to determine the attitude of users to it. If the benefit is not juicy, people will not misuse it, just as we see now. But of course, if it wouldn't be juicy, why implement it? People will not even think it twice to look away if it is not juicy since one can naturally invite anyone they want directly through the direct website of the forum.

For this, it can only mean that the incentive attached to the referral programs will be attractive enough, and behold, many users will misuse the advantage. So we should expect spam, more worthless accounts and most importantly too many abandoned and banned accounts.

[lovesmayfamilis]

Invite a person to the forum using your referral link, help him in every possible way, and accordingly bear responsibility for all his actions. I would say that we can trust a tiny circle of people in our lives, and these people, therefore, receive all our love and respect, just as they do not need any referral links. In addition, whenever there is a benefit for the mentor, there is a financial incentive. What incentive could inspire a person to give his time to strangers who want his attention?

[Justbillywitt]

Will referral links shared as invites for newbies not be a way to help add content quality to this forum?

It is in the sense that, referral links from seniors or old knowledgeable members automatically bestows the responsibility of mentorship on the person sharing the link to the newbies of whom accepts and clicks to join through the referral links they were shared to join this Bitcoin talk forum with?

What's your opinion?

It won't help the forum in anyway, it will only succeed in registering bunch of accounts that won't last for long because the moment they realize that nothing is in it for them they won't be coming online again Secondly you can't keep control of who will use your referral link, because the moment you send out your link to someone you know, there is every possibility that your link will get to people you don't know, and when they get here and starts doing stuffs that are against the forum rules, the blame is likely to be shifted to the person who has the invite link that brought them in the first place.

[NotATether]

Referral links to any service are not allowed inside Bitcointalk, unless they are in your signature.

But if you are talking about referral links to Bitcointalk itself, that doesn't make much sense either. What exactly will the referrer be earning? I don't think the forum treasury would ever be put to use for paying off things like that. SMF doesn't have code for tracking these things either which complicates matters.

[Peanutswar]

There's no reason at all to put a referral link because there's no Income here if you just post unless you joined in the signature campaign. Forum is solely focus for the discussion and exchange of information that helps people each other in the community. I guess you've seen that in an other forum like crypto talk that you can invite other people to get paid and also paid every time to post. It's just become spam of newbie accounts if this referral makes happen.

[pinggoki]

Referral links in my opinion doesn't really encourage people to do the mentorship in the first place because being a mentor means you know what you're doing and that you know what you're getting into and I don't think that will come to you even at a thought when it comes to referral links. Most likely, the thing that you would be is the quotas and you would definitely be putting all of your focus in that part because that's where the money is and I don't think that you'd ever deviate from it so I feel like referral links encourages spamming or reaching quotas rather than mentorship.

[Ultegra134]

Are you suggesting we use referral links for registrations on a white list where you can only sign up through someone's referral link? If so, that doesn't solve anything; spammers, AI content and bounty hunters will still find ways to sign up, while it may discourage new members who are actually interested in the forum from signing up. On the other hand, like other users already suggested, there's already a beginner section; we don't need to guide people as they're pets; this forum isn't nuclear science enough to require a mentor. I find it completely unnecessary.

[Pmalek]

I don't see the benefit of it. Anyone who wishes to bring new people to the forum can do that simply by sharing a normal link to the forum itself with some basic information about what users can find here. It doesn't have to be a referral link. I also don't see the benefit for either the newbie or the person who refers them to be tied to one person. Public forums are there to share opinions and to come to the best conclusions. A problem can have many different solutions and only by talking about it openly will you understand what the best one is for you. Even the most knowledgeable individuals can make mistakes or forget to provide the most complete information. That's why it's useful to have multiple inputs from different people.