Plenoptic

Oct 9 2006, 07:57 PM

The problem though is people could go around creating names with that referal link. Say they go to their friend's house and just make a name on their IP for the heck of it to get the referal or go to the local library. Sure some people will use it for good but a few bad people can ruin it. Plus they could just go around telling people to join for them and they don't have to use it. I'm not trying to be negative about it but you sort of have to look at the bad sides of things. Of course this doesn't mean you can't refer people that'd use Trap

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midnightvamp

Oct 9 2006, 08:43 PM

Yea, though it would be nice and easier for many people to just refer some people, and not have to post, because we'd get the other credits to use, it would defeat the whole purpose of these forums. These forums are what keep the free hosting alive, and if everyone just went out and recruited more people, instead of posting useful things on the forums, them the forums would dry up and so would the free hosting. It would be nice to be able to get extra points that way, but it makes more sense to post here, and recruit people without the reward, because the more you recruit, the better the conversations on this forum will be, and the more people you'll be able to have help you with any problems

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heavensounds

Oct 10 2006, 08:37 PM

Yes that would be nice. But as many others have said earlier - there is a problem of cheating the system. People would fake names and in a matter of months everything would go down and we certainly don't want that right? However, I find it interesting that the sole need for humans to cheat and do stuff that they know is "illegal or wrong" can do such things. I am trying to say that if everybody did what they supposed to do and what is not wrong, nothing would need to be so highly secured. I know very good that this is totally impossible but still it is funny if you think HOOW many things depend solely upon this human "flaw".

Well thats life...get used to it or die trying

Greetz

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gameratheart

Oct 10 2006, 07:50 PM

QUOTE(irmlm @ Oct 10 2006, 06:55 PM)

so how if u give a percent of post credits to the referers?
for example i refer bob! and then bob makes a post and gets 5credits! and it would be good if i get a percent of that for exapmle 0.5credit ! hah? what do you think?

It's a better idea than your last one, but it still can be abused in the same way as the first. So no.

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irmlm

Oct 10 2006, 05:55 PM

QUOTE(midnightvamp @ Oct 9 2006, 08:43 PM)

Yea, though it would be nice and easier for many people to just refer some people, and not have to post, because we'd get the other credits to use, it would defeat the whole purpose of these forums. These forums are what keep the free hosting alive, and if everyone just went out and recruited more people, instead of posting useful things on the forums, them the forums would dry up and so would the free hosting. It would be nice to be able to get extra points that way, but it makes more sense to post here, and recruit people without the reward, because the more you recruit, the better the conversations on this forum will be, and the more people you'll be able to have help you with any problems

so how if u give a percent of post credits to the referers?
for example i refer bob! and then bob makes a post and gets 5credits! and it would be good if i get a percent of that for exapmle 0.5credit ! hah? what do you think?

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Reaper

Oct 10 2006, 11:45 AM

I think something like that would really make this cool because you do not always feel like coming on to the forum to write stuff for the forum so that your credits don't runout. sometimes you just don't have the time either. So if they did something like that so you could boost your credits without having to come and talk on the forum

I also think that something that would be coo lto implement her would be to have it that if you start a topic and that topic does well say for every 20 replys from diffrent people you will get more credits when you do participate on the forum. I know the way they do it so that ppl do participate in the forum. So this way if you don't participate then theses extra credits will not appear but you just have a bit of input and you will get more credits than normal ! would be a really cool thing to implement to this trap 17 forum.

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