printz Posted March 27, 2012 What does this user-uneditable entry mean? I'd like to know, because I imagine it is how many times it has been linked from elsewhere. 0 Share this post Link to post
Gez Posted March 27, 2012 When someone registers an account, they can enter the user name of someone who convinced them to come and register. That gives +1 referral to that user. I suppose the referral system is used on some forums for some sort of popularity Ponzi scheme. "I recruited more people than you!" "Nuh, uh, half of them were your own sockpuppets!" It's kinda silly and totally useless IMO. Huh, apparently I have one referral. I don't have any idea who it was, though. 0 Share this post Link to post
Lizardcommando Posted March 27, 2012 I have one referral too. I have no idea who it is though. 0 Share this post Link to post
Doom_Dude Posted March 27, 2012 I seem to have 1 somehow. It wasn't a spammer from another board, I swear. ;) 0 Share this post Link to post
Kira Posted March 27, 2012 I've got two and can't think of someone I would have convinced to subscribe here. 0 Share this post Link to post
myk Posted March 27, 2012 I'm sure it's not always applied from a direct recommendation. Anonymous referrals may simply be people who followed links to the forum that we posted elsewhere or people who heard us mention Doomworld or the forums in a chat or whatever. 0 Share this post Link to post
40oz Posted March 27, 2012 I think I lurked the forums and picked a username at random as my referral, thinking it was required that you know somebody before being allowed to be in this forum 0 Share this post Link to post
Planky Posted March 27, 2012 Doom Dude said:I seem to have 1 somehow. It wasn't a spammer from another board, I swear. ;) After seeing the amount you and Aliotrophical managed to post, I dont think labelling him a spammer accurately covers the numbers you accumulated lol. 0 Share this post Link to post
Doom_Dude Posted March 27, 2012 Planky said:After seeing the amount you and Aliotrophical managed to post, I dont think labelling him a spammer accurately covers the numbers you accumulated lol. Haha, very funny. I should have known you wood have something sappy to say about that. Shouldn't you be somewhere doing some planking? :p 0 Share this post Link to post
GreyGhost Posted March 28, 2012 I suspect he's board. :) Going by my referral count, I'm not exactly a magnet for new members. 0 Share this post Link to post
Doom_Dude Posted March 28, 2012 The odd thing is I just noticed Planky and I have the same # of posts on DW.. lol. Fukken weird. 0 Share this post Link to post
elic Posted March 28, 2012 I seem to lack a new user attracting magnetic field too. 0 Share this post Link to post
Creaphis Posted March 28, 2012 My referral count is officially zero, but I should think that creaphis-crack-sweet, creaphis-sweet-crack, and creaphis_sweet_crack signed up largely on the strength of my posting. 0 Share this post Link to post
TimeOfDeath Posted March 28, 2012 You're right, Creaphis, your referral count should be -3. ;) 0 Share this post Link to post
Technician Posted March 28, 2012 Sodaholic keeps bringing his 789 friends over here. 0 Share this post Link to post
Shadow Dweller Posted March 28, 2012 I have zero because none of my friends like Doom as much as I do, apparently. 0 Share this post Link to post
DoomUK Posted March 28, 2012 I used to think it was something meaningful like the number of times someone or someone's post was referred to because they had extensive knowledge about something or posted something particularly insightful, until I read the FAQ. 0 Share this post Link to post
kristus Posted March 28, 2012 Took me a while before I found where it said, but apparently I have two. 0 Share this post Link to post
General Rainbow Bacon Posted March 28, 2012 Where do I find the referral's number? 0 Share this post Link to post
Gez Posted March 28, 2012 General Rainbow Bacon said:Where do I find the referral's number? Your own? Here. It's zero. 0 Share this post Link to post
Aliotroph? Posted March 28, 2012 I think I have more posts on ND than I have on the rest of the web combined. Some of us used to use it like a chatroom. As for referrals, I have no idea how many I have. Those profile links tell me I don't exist. Putting a ? in your name sometimes has interesting effects. It makes sense I can't navigate to a path with a ? in it, but it doesn't much much sense why the software lets users put unusable characters in their names. 0 Share this post Link to post
DoomUK Posted March 28, 2012 Aliotroph? said:Those profile links tell me I don't exist. Putting a ? in your name sometimes has interesting effects. I always thought your profile was disabled because you wanted it to be. 0 Share this post Link to post
printz Posted March 28, 2012 Couldn't Linguica just do the percent encoding when he changed mod_rewrite? Geez. 0 Share this post Link to post
Darkman 4 Posted March 28, 2012 I have none because nobody loves me. ;( 0 Share this post Link to post
Gez Posted March 28, 2012 Aliotroph? said:As for referrals, I have no idea how many I have. Those profile links tell me I don't exist. Putting a ? in your name sometimes has interesting effects. It makes sense I can't navigate to a path with a ? in it, but it doesn't much much sense why the software lets users put unusable characters in their names. As Printz said, percent encoding. http://www.doomworld.com/vb/members/Aliotroph%3F/ 0 Share this post Link to post