I think you HAVE to have that in some sort of way otherwise spammers will invite themselves 300 times and the purpose of invites becomes shakier, although you can at least track who is inviting who via it. Something like 5 a week would be fine for most users, and then give trusted users more.
Really think that if this does get implemented it should be on the profile page though, incentive is good. There is absolutely no harm to the site that can come from incentivising people to invite people, in fact it would be extremely beneficial.
If someone uses the system maliciously, of course that should be grounds to cut any further invite privileges. Maybe some limit that no good-faith, actual user will ever hit as a precaution.
And yea, I'm not against implementing it on the profile really. It's probably a more healthy stat to track than most
Perhaps then have a system where admins can ban an account and every account that branches from their invite. For an obvious spam account you can ban it, ban every other spam account they invited, and investigate whoever invited the spammer originally. That way you cut out the root of the spammer tree and all the branching spammer inviting spammer inviting spammer dozens of layers in falls immediately. Admins could use this tool at their discretion, so a person who has previously participated in good faith but now needs to be banned doesnt have to bring down all the other good faith users they brought in.
I'm not necessarily for limiting the amount of invites at all, though that's certainly an option to introduce even more friction if we need it.
I think you HAVE to have that in some sort of way otherwise spammers will invite themselves 300 times and the purpose of invites becomes shakier, although you can at least track who is inviting who via it. Something like 5 a week would be fine for most users, and then give trusted users more.
Really think that if this does get implemented it should be on the profile page though, incentive is good. There is absolutely no harm to the site that can come from incentivising people to invite people, in fact it would be extremely beneficial.
If someone uses the system maliciously, of course that should be grounds to cut any further invite privileges. Maybe some limit that no good-faith, actual user will ever hit as a precaution.
And yea, I'm not against implementing it on the profile really. It's probably a more healthy stat to track than most
Perhaps then have a system where admins can ban an account and every account that branches from their invite. For an obvious spam account you can ban it, ban every other spam account they invited, and investigate whoever invited the spammer originally. That way you cut out the root of the spammer tree and all the branching spammer inviting spammer inviting spammer dozens of layers in falls immediately. Admins could use this tool at their discretion, so a person who has previously participated in good faith but now needs to be banned doesnt have to bring down all the other good faith users they brought in.