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Suggestions for improvements and additions to the site.

This feature was rejected 6/27/2012: Automatically rejected as part of the FWW clean out.

Points for Inviting people to register?

14 years ago

Okay, so I guess this feature would be great to make the community grow.
Basically, you get points if people you invite, register to this website.
Just tinker with the source code for the registration process and add in an input box that says:
Who invited you to join?(or something like this)
Then they type in your name, acknowledging that they found this website through you and you get points for it.

And probably the points increase with more members that register with your invite(just an option though)

Of course, I know the pros and cons of this feature and how devious some people can be. It would be easy to exploit this by just creating another account and inputing your main account in the registration process.

But Iv'e already thought of a way to counter this.

For the points to fully register to your account, the member you invited should at least:

- publish a story or 2(I dunno, up to you guys)
- Rate at least 10 story's
- And post at least 10 times in the forums
- Get at least 50 points(?)

The above crude draft of guidelines can be used to determine the authenticity of the invited account and see if he's really into the website. And as Iv'e said, this would be a great feature to make the community grow.

But that's just my humble opinion, what about yours?

October

Points for Inviting people to register?

14 years ago

At first I thought this was a bad idea, mainly because as far as I know JJJ can't see the IP addresses of users on this site and so he wouldn't be able to tell if new referrals were actually fake accounts. But having the guidelines to determine the authenticity of the person invited is a really good idea.

I would go against rating a certain number of stories or getting a certain number of points, as the person on the fake account could rush through games without reading them and leave a rating to up their EXP points rather easily. Also, not everybody posts in the forums - you'll notice many people logon to CYS but only certain members post in the forums, so forum posts would not be a fair way of determining authenticity.

Publishing a story is a good idea as proof is a good idea, I think. It takes time to make a story, and if somebody fakes a referral account and makes a terrible storygame for the EXP points, it'll be deleted and the points taken away from the member who referred the fake account. Maybe it has to be rated at least a 3 on average to be counted? The potential faker would gain more points from publishing the story himself than from creating a fake account and publishing the story, eliminating the appeal of making a fake account in the first place.

Good idea. Unfortunately alexp is unlikely to return to implement ideas any time soon, so this most likely won't come to fruition. Good suggestion, though.

CobaltRed

Points for Inviting people to register?

14 years ago

Yeah, those were just a rough draft of guidelines. I figured they could get change to be more efficient in determining authenticity.

Hmm, that's too bad. This would be great to make current members more active and at the same time make the community grow.

JJJ-thebanisher

Points for Inviting people to register?

14 years ago

I can manually assign points for this?

cool74

Points for Inviting people to register?

14 years ago

That would probably solve the problem of fake accounts.

CobaltRed

Points for Inviting people to register?

14 years ago

Oh, that's very nice. But i'm thinking, doing it manually? That's gonna be a lot of work for you. If this feature becomes successful. It's gonna have a pyramid/domino effect: The people I know will invite people they know that will invite people they know, etc. You'll have to keep track of everyone invited to make sure you don't give double points. There's also the problem of knowing whom invited whom... But hey, maybe you know something I don't. You are an admin after all:P

Erudite2

Points for Inviting people to register?

14 years ago

I don't think this is a good idea, for a lot of reasons. For one, I kinda like that we're a small to medium community, it makes getting to know each other much easier. Secondly, I don't want someone spamming points because their facebook has a few thousand followers. It would make the point of making stories for points rather...well, pointless. Even playing those small games we have only award like 10 points per match. Third, more people equal more trolls, I don't want someone stealing my thunder. Fourth, since the feature makers already have so much in their plates, JJJ would have to do it manually, and that labor is harsh, even for Banisher. JJJ is our most active admin, and I don't want to make the admin job a tedious chore for him. Fifth, this is all nice and stuff, but you also have to take into consideration how long the registered person has to be active in order to receive points for being registered. And who is going to do that, JJJ? He's still in school, he has a life, and he's an admin. He's not superman, well, not unless he wears his blue spandex on the outside. Sixth, we don't want to isolate others in our community when everyone in your myspace and facebook is on this site. You chatter among yourselves, and perturb everyone else into thinking they're outsiders.

CobaltRed

Points for Inviting people to register?

14 years ago

Yeah, That's why I opted that it was the source code for the registration process, itself, that should be changed to accommodate this feature. I do know how hard it would be for 3J if he were to do it manually.

There's nothing wrong with growing the community. a large community doesn't always mean more trolls (but I do see your point here). That's why there should be guidelines for the points because they serve, in a way, as a screening process to:

-Let people, who like these kinds of stuff, know about the website and therefore meet more like-minded people.(So trolls, fake accounts, and people who just do it for points will be shunned or ignored and people who aren't really into to this website will just go away.)

*Trolls feed on your anger and retaliation. If you don't feed it, it will shrivel up and die. Never feed the trolls!

So the only people who would actually "live" in this community are those who truly want to be in the community:)

betaband

Points for Inviting people to register?

13 years ago

they should have to have a story game with a rating of atleast 4