[denied] Referral Hi-scores

Primal · Jun 3, 2023

since [Denied] Minirank for 200 referrals? has been denied:

how about a Hi-score thread / post/ sticky /anything for referrals, with a cosmetic rank reward for 1st,2nd and 3rd place

owned · Jun 3, 2023

Can you please clarify what you mean by “cosmetic rank?”

Kyle · Jun 3, 2023

No support. This is just an unnecessary waste of time.

Slash · Jun 3, 2023

Kyle said: ↑

No support. This is just an unnecessary waste of time.
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Please could you explain how its an unnecessary waste of time?

Support from me.
Great incentive to make people refer more, bringing more traction to Sythe, which will benefit the platform overall.

Kyle · Jun 3, 2023

Slash said: ↑

Please could you explain how its an unnecessary waste of time?

Support from me.
Great incentive to make people refer more, bringing more traction to Sythe, which will benefit the platform overall.
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What this promotes is gold sites to offer an incentive of some kind to their customers to join Sythe. The majority of these users will be ban evaders, which will now take staff time to ban. To the normal person such as myself I gain absolutely nothing from having some type of leaderboard or minirank for recruiting people because the chicks of the community obviously will be able to be at the top without any stressing.

Slash · Jun 3, 2023

Kyle said: ↑

What this promotes is gold sites to offer an incentive of some kind to their customers to join Sythe. The majority of these users will be ban evaders, which will now take staff time to ban. To the normal person such as myself I gain absolutely nothing from having some type of leaderboard or minirank for recruiting people because the chicks of the community obviously will be able to be at the top without any stressing.
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Gold sites having an incentive to bring their customers here is great.
I don't know how you assumed the majority of them are ban evaders.

I think that is fair that you believe you will gain nothing and didn't support for that reason.
I guess I assumed people think about how it benefits the community when writing against these suggestions, because that benefits them in the long run.

Sunny · Jun 3, 2023

wont happen bro

Primal · Jun 3, 2023

owned said: ↑

Can you please clarify what you mean by “cosmetic rank?”
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similar to your "cracker head" ranks

owned · Jun 3, 2023

Primal said: ↑

similar to your "cracker head" ranks
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Ah. Those are called funranks and they’re extremely coveted. If staff declined a suggestion to make a minirank, there isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell they approve a funrank for referrals, nor should they.

No support from me on that.

Here’s what I suggest: Sythe already has a high scores section for post count, likes, and trophy points. I think it would be great to add referrals there, if possible.

Notable Members | Sell & Trade Game Items | OSRS Gold | ELO

Kanye · Jun 4, 2023

Support adding this as it would possibly bring new users to the site as some may feel inclined to utilize the referral system.

No support on any rank for this however.

Primal · Jun 4, 2023

owned said: ↑

Notable Members | Sell & Trade Game Items | OSRS Gold | ELO
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in that case, let's get some more highlight on this, i've seen this once personally

owned · Jun 4, 2023

Primal said: ↑

in that case, let's get some more highlight on this, i've seen this once personally
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I like the idea. How do you suggest we do that?

BlackBlasses · Jun 4, 2023

It's great to be creative with suggestions.

Things to consider:

- Many companies that advertise on sythe already refer people to sythe by asking them to leave them a vouch (sometimes for extra gold/discount or similar incentive). They do this mainly to build their reputation (if they are in the early-mid stage), or to bump their market threads

- Shops have managed to build up astronomical amounts of referrals over the years AND their place in the (suggested) high score is pretty much set in stone. People like Alch rarely close their business, and new people rarely shake the market dominance. To give an example, PartyPete has about 3.5k referrals.

- The top 5 shops by referrals are no longer motivated by fancy fun ranks, and this wouldn't add much, if anything, to their incentive.

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However, I think it's good to have such a high score (without any reward) to motivate other people (monkey see, monkey do). I suppose it's easy enough to add, I can see Matthew agreeing to do it if asked nicely.

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We could do an event like this - [CDT] Referral Event! $$ Prizes for top 3!《Ends April 30th 11:59PM PST》 GLHF - any ideas on how to do this? It's CDT's job to come up with creative ideas, but I can tell you we're a bunch of boomers.

Best regards,
BlackBlasses

Bert · Jun 4, 2023

Would be cool to add it in the user center if possible with forum gold leaders/top donors! Support.

BlackBlasses · Jun 5, 2023

We'll add it here - Notable Members | Sell & Trade Game Items | OSRS Gold | ELO - if Matty-boy agrees.

Matty-boy @Matthew what say you, buddy-pal?

Can we do that, friend?

Yoshiki · Jun 7, 2023

Are admins able to remove referrals if someone were to abuse this?

BlackBlasses · Jun 7, 2023

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Are admins able to remove referrals if someone were to abuse this?
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Regular admins, such as Andrew, or _techie, do not have this ability.

However, if someone wanted to be at the top of a list in the hiscore, it would be way easier to choose the Most Likes category.