Suggestion about invites

That would mean that one has to pay to get on this site. It does not quite fit into the spirit of it, but otherwise, not too bad of an idea.

The invite system needs to be ammended but it is very difficult given the spirit of the site.

As it stands anybody can create an invite by saving 50 points.

Possibly I would think it should require more points...

or that only those who create a succussful giveaway can invite (one per giveaway), this way you know that the person is less likely to invite a black sheep into the crowd because it would mean loss of respect. It would also ensure that there would be a steady controlled flow of newbies to the site instead of random stampedes and it would lower the percentage of people joining for devious reasons.

I don't know about his invite idea there, but I think the other one might be useful.

If giveaways created by users who haven't done a successful one before would be put on a pool to be checked by moderators before appearing on the site, we can avoid vast majority of the fakes, errors and all the problems following them.

Though implementing this would require changing how the "Giveaway Date Range" setting works on the create a giveaway page into something like choosing the starting time and duration, with first timers unable to chose the starting time, only once for their first giveaway. Which would be immediately after it is checked.

Some may argue that this wold put too much power into the mods hands, that they can manipulate the starting and ending times this way, but that would be a discussion for another day.

I agree with G1deon

I don't like this idea because everyone will start giving away fortix to get an invite and we will have 1 million members by sundown!!!!!!!!!

Okay, reworked: vote pool for every giveaway. Giver receive invite if "yes" is around 90%. So, invite have bigger price, giver can invite some good guys, not like another one thread on random forum "STEAMGIFT INVITES FOR +CARMA".

How can anyone check the validity of the giveaway?