If I understand this correctly, they can know who invited them (by email, or username, or both? or none?)—but the person who invited them cannot know either?
A record of which users you invite will be kept internally (but won't be visible to any users, including you). Please invite people that you think will be good community members—if you repeatedly invite users that cause issues, you may lose inviting privileges.
If I understand this correctly, they can know who invited them (by email, or username, or both? or none?)—but the person who invited them cannot know either?
as that says, invites are tracked internally, but none of that information is displayed to users. if Alice invites Bob by texting Bob an invite link, Alice knows that Bob used the invite, because...
as that says, invites are tracked internally, but none of that information is displayed to users.
if Alice invites Bob by texting Bob an invite link, Alice knows that Bob used the invite, because that invite code will disappear from the page you linked after Bob uses it.
however, Alice won't know Bob's username, nor will Bob know Alice's username (unless they find out through other means, such as by telling each other, or using the same username they had on reddit or another site, etc etc)
yep, that's correct. another edge case is that Alice can generate two invite codes, and send one to Bob and one to Xander. if Alice doesn't keep track herself of which code is sent to which...
yep, that's correct.
another edge case is that Alice can generate two invite codes, and send one to Bob and one to Xander. if Alice doesn't keep track herself of which code is sent to which person, then she might come back to her invite page, and see that only one code has been used, and have no way of knowing which one was used and which one is still pending.
and as you said, Bob could have forwarded the invite to Cletus, and Xander might have forwarded it to Yolanda. Alice has no visibility into any of that.
If you never got an invite... how did you create a Tildes account? This is an invite-only website. People must have an invite code to create an account here.
If you never got an invite... how did you create a Tildes account? This is an invite-only website. People must have an invite code to create an account here.
Or maybe I'm some sort of God-tier hacker! Who can say? I hacked the site by reversing the polarity of the Ascii hyperlink port by applying a machine learning-based COBOL Lagrangian.
Or maybe I'm some sort of God-tier hacker! Who can say? I hacked the site by reversing the polarity of the Ascii hyperlink port by applying a machine learning-based COBOL Lagrangian.
If I understand this correctly, they can know who invited them (by email, or username, or both? or none?)—but the person who invited them cannot know either?
as that says, invites are tracked internally, but none of that information is displayed to users.
if Alice invites Bob by texting Bob an invite link, Alice knows that Bob used the invite, because that invite code will disappear from the page you linked after Bob uses it.
however, Alice won't know Bob's username, nor will Bob know Alice's username (unless they find out through other means, such as by telling each other, or using the same username they had on reddit or another site, etc etc)
Cool. So invites are completely anonymous, except internally.
If I'm not mistaken, all Alice will really know is the code has been used. Bob could have passed it on to Cletus for all she knows.
yep, that's correct.
another edge case is that Alice can generate two invite codes, and send one to Bob and one to Xander. if Alice doesn't keep track herself of which code is sent to which person, then she might come back to her invite page, and see that only one code has been used, and have no way of knowing which one was used and which one is still pending.
and as you said, Bob could have forwarded the invite to Cletus, and Xander might have forwarded it to Yolanda. Alice has no visibility into any of that.
That’s actually a feature I like. It allows invitees the ability to stay anonymous if they wish.
I take what you've quoted to mean that people you invite don't know who invited them.
I never got an invite, I just emailed the account request email!
If you never got an invite... how did you create a Tildes account? This is an invite-only website. People must have an invite code to create an account here.
Aw cmon, you know what they meant. Deimos emailed them one :)
Or maybe I'm some sort of God-tier hacker! Who can say? I hacked the site by reversing the polarity of the Ascii hyperlink port by applying a machine learning-based COBOL Lagrangian.
That's some A+ technobabble. Get this person aboard the USS Enterprise stat.
Sorry if it went over your head. Really, it's not all that complicated. What I did was quite simple, just like putting too much air in a balloon!
And extra credit for thinking up the nightmare that would be a COBOL ML model XD
Do I? Am I actually as smart as you seem to think I might be?
Hmm...I know this one. There's one of you who always tells the truth, and there's one who always lies...
And one makes you larger, one makes you small, and the ones that mother gives you don’t do anything at all…
And the doctor was the mother! Also the horse was named Friday.
Which thread has four comments in the morning, two in the afternoon and three by dusk?