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Invite system
Hey everyone!
Can I get a rundown on how to earn an invite link? I've got a friend who is interested in migrating off of Reddit and I'd like to be the one to invite him :)
Hey everyone!
Can I get a rundown on how to earn an invite link? I've got a friend who is interested in migrating off of Reddit and I'd like to be the one to invite him :)
In the past @Deimos has occasionally topped everyone up, usually with the default number of 10 invites. There’s no set time frame otherwise on when you might get some. I’d be in favor of a general top up to continue feeding this growth we’re seeing. As long as it continues at the pace we’ve managed the last few days I think it is manageable.
It makes sense a new account won't have invites at first, so I thought it was going to happen after some timeframe. Well, it's not like I have someone to invite here...
@Deimos why not top everyone off with ten codes so new folks can bring in friends and family? It seems we're about caught up on the reddit influx, at least for now.
I'm respectfully against your idea for two reasons:
I would even suggest a captcha of sorts when creating an account. Just in case.
Invites are tracked, so there's an account hierarchy in the database. That means when when one bad actor invites ten of his friends, and those ten invite ten more, and all of those invite ten more, it's still a one click affair to excise the lot by snipping the branch of the invite tree right where the problem starts. It is literally impossible for spammers or bots to gain any kind of foothold on this website. ;)
Also the /r/tildes invite thread is closed, at least until this weekend.
That's awesome and pretty wise! The more I know about this site, the more I like it. I'm only against this place becoming another Reddit (by means of malicious users), so I hope this functionality helps to make invites the way to go.
I'm not on Reddit, so how do I get invites?
The more direct way is by email at invites@tildes.net, but because they already let in 2,000 new accounts, you may need to wait a little until they send you one. Please be patient, this site is slowly but surely growing.
That's the way I took.
Got an invite inside 7 days, so the backlog is not bad.
Pretty much overnight for me, I did send a good (i think) intro to show I wasn't a bot and all. I was surprised and all at the immediate invite.
That invite-tracking system is pretty good, I remember most of the private trackers I was involved in the early days of the internet having one, and accountability for bad actors abusing their privileges were easy to resolve.
People who do not use reddit can send an email!
https://docs.tildes.net/contact
There is no specific timeframe for getting invite codes from what I understand.
You'll eventually get 10 invites but Im not sure how much that will take. For now, just refer them to /r/tildes.
Has there been any word regarding new users getting invite codes? I thought I'd end up with 5-10 referrals judging by some of the answers I've googled. This thread was the top hit.
I've got family and discord members looking for potential places to go. The other alternative I've been mentioning is https://kbin.social/ .
Looks like some Wikipedia devs are making their own version too. https://twitter.com/jimmy_wales/status/1668266400723488769
@Deimos manually tops everyone up with invites periodically. AFAIK, the last time he did that was a few weeks ago when he made the Thoughts on making Tildes groups more independent topic though.
I'm planning to make another ~tildes.official post tomorrow (and will give out some invites). @blanketswithsmallpox
Awesome. Thanks for the quick replies everyone. Much appreciated.
Slow and steady is an awesome mentality. So far from what I've seen on tildes, it's been thought provoking, no nonsense posting with polite interactions. What a breath of fresh air. It's incredibly small but right now is how reddit was way back when. It's filling a need that people have for discourse and information.
So long as tildes provides no clear way to translate action into money, abusers should, in theory, steer clear.
As far as toxicity goes, controlling the invites in this manner is slow going but the hierarchal link feature is great. Both features are effective. You come in, you either play ball or don't and you and all 30 of your bots are out.
I couldn't agree more with everything you said. The ones monetizing the platform are the least of my concerns, it's the ones who chase the fake internet points I really can't stand.
Maybe it's an age thing, maybe it's a mentality thing, but the more controlled the floodgates are the better this community will be I think.