It's an awful idea in my opinion. I think the forum should be for people who want to learn and made a research and found themselves here. It has to be a forum for people interested in bitcoin. With referral link people would go about bring every kind of people to the forum even people that are not interested or can't contribute in the forum.
There is already a link to get to the forum, all you need to do is copy and send to anybody you meet who is genuinely ready to learn about bitcoin or someone who is looking for a reputable bitcoin community to be part of.
I don't see a need for a referral link, no point at all.
Topic: Will the idea of sharing referral links be as effective? - page 2. (Read 336 times)
I don’t see how and why someone would be sticking out his or her neck to be a mentor when, you could learn from anyone and everyone.
Also, just having to invite someone and then, getting to teach to them what you know serves the same purpose as is proposed on the OP. A referrer would only mean, a way to draw attention to yourself or as one that have some many invites to their name and I see how this could constitute a lot of problems.
People will be in the league of who have or haven’t invited more and in some way, your referrers would be tide to you as one who knows them and is supposed to teach to them. There isn’t a need for a referrer or mentorship.
Newbies do not need a mentor for Bitcointalk. Anyone who creates an account here can find the Beginners & Help section and learn from what the older members of the forum posted. This idea will only encourage newbies to be lazy and can slow down their learning because they might be overly dependent on their mentor and will not go any further in researching if not instructed by their mentor.
What’s so difficult about making some researches yourself. DYOR and stop acting naive all the time. When you are stuck on something, you can ask on the forum or better still use the search engine
What’s so difficult about making some researches yourself. DYOR and stop acting naive all the time. When you are stuck on something, you can ask on the forum or better still use the search engine
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?
My thought is that anyone who wants others to benefit from Bitcointalk can simply share "bitcointalk.org" with them. This forum is a non-profit forum to warrant paying referrers, nor is it ready to give a kind of privilege to the person who referred the most. What if the person is even a low-quality poster? This will always be a discouragement. Also, don't forget that if allowed, many will refer themselves, their friends and family who are not even interested in the forum and still claim the possible benefits.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?
On the privacy aspect, this forum is more privacy-incline, the moment too many people are linked to you through referrals, the more your privacy is being compromised. We don't have to know who knows who.
I also do think otherwise of this referral system; it might only end up bringing in more spam to the forum than before, since those you might share the referral link with might think there is something to benefit in an instant as soon as they sign up, which will be different.
And another thing is that when you use your referral link to refer people directly to this place and one or two of such people carry out a scam scheme that affects members of the forum, won't the person who invited him or her here be held accountable to some point?
And another thing is that when you use your referral link to refer people directly to this place and one or two of such people carry out a scam scheme that affects members of the forum, won't the person who invited him or her here be held accountable to some point?
What's the benefit?
If you're only ask seniors or old users to become a volunteer without any reward, I really doubt they want to do it when most users in this forum will not make a post when they're not participate in signature campaign.
And if there's a reward, I expect people will abuse it, so the administrators need to put extra work.
If you're only ask seniors or old users to become a volunteer without any reward, I really doubt they want to do it when most users in this forum will not make a post when they're not participate in signature campaign.
And if there's a reward, I expect people will abuse it, so the administrators need to put extra work.
Will referral links shared as invites for newbies not be a way to help add content quality to this forum?
If newbies search about Bitcoin, and with one of key words as forum like Bitcoin + forum, they will be directed here by many search engines.The forum is not an exchange so a referral link does not bring anything to a referrer, no income and what is benefit of it. In some years ago like 2017 and 2018, with ICO appearances, many altcoin projects direct newbies, spammers to this forum and it only brings traffics but the negative effect is spam a lot.
As consequence of spam, forum has the merit system since 2018. Will referral links cause a new spam generation in the forum?
Will we have merit system version 3.0 plus referral links?
[...] What's your opinion?
That won't help at all, if the referral system is implemented then it will create default links for all users, these links could be misused by irresponsible spammers.
Forget what i said above, because that's not the point, the point is, who wants to responsibly mentor new users without getting paid? users in this forum have their own lives, and if new users have questions, they can immediately make a thread & other members can answer them.
Referral link? Lol is that something here on BitcoinTalk? Alot of persons here on the forum, who invites others are mostly people whom are very close to them. Maybe friends in real life or family members. And if you are inviting them here, they will definitely look upon you as a tour guide through the forum. They may have to ask you so many questions before they can navigate the forum on their own. Literally you become their mentor as they keep note of what you do and how you do it so they can learn.
Am coming from the angle that sees referral links being created to support real mentoring if need be, besides the regular sign up and login process that is the current way to own an account and is a task for newbies to conform to when visiting this Bitcointalk forum site. 
Referral link? Lol is that something here on BitcoinTalk? Alot of persons here on the forum, who invites others are mostly people whom are very close to them. Maybe friends in real life or family members. And if you are inviting them here, they will definitely look upon you as a tour guide through the forum. They may have to ask you so many questions before they can navigate the forum on their own. Literally you become their mentor as they keep note of what you do and how you do it so they can learn.
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 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?
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