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108 sats \ 6 replies \ @Undisciplined 11 Jul \ on: This Day on SN: July 11 meta

What happened to referrals?

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53 sats \ 5 replies \ @k00b 11 Jul

They still exist. I removed the dedicated page/graphs as part of the great culling. I don't think the incentive was ever big enough. I'd like to make it bigger but that requires something very sybil resistant.

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102 sats \ 4 replies \ @Undisciplined 11 Jul

What's the biggest typical referral payout?

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62 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b 11 Jul

Very rarely they are a few thousand sats. I think the problem is that they aren't deterministic enough. As in, do X get Y.

We were thinking about Amazon's affiliate referrals when we designed them but I find the fintech/enterprise ones most effective. I recently referred someone to mercury and got $250 when they deposited $10k.

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1 sat \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 11 Jul

That's awesome but would also require that any of us are doing anything worth $250 on here.

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52 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 11 Jul

I think something like that works at 1k sats too. So it might make sense to do 1k sats after a referred person spends 10k sats or something.

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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 11 Jul

Could be a win-win, since that's probably less than you'd get from the current referral system.

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