Borgs8472
04-05-2006, 07:24 PM
Currently the refferal system is okay for free reputation points and a profile count, but not much more.
People have tried 'requires referal' ways of using their VBs, but users can put in any id and 'fake' a referal ridiculously easy.
Hence I suggest some sort of secure referal system. How this would work is where my referal id at vb.org is &referrerid=54085, maybe it could be processed through some algorhthm to make it into &referrerid=353287507235702359239572350235 etc.
Ideally such ids could 'expire' if not used for say a month.
Also, ideally users could only refer X users per X (time) after which their referal id no longer works.
I hope people get what I'm getting at. Is there any interest in this?
People have tried 'requires referal' ways of using their VBs, but users can put in any id and 'fake' a referal ridiculously easy.
Hence I suggest some sort of secure referal system. How this would work is where my referal id at vb.org is &referrerid=54085, maybe it could be processed through some algorhthm to make it into &referrerid=353287507235702359239572350235 etc.
Ideally such ids could 'expire' if not used for say a month.
Also, ideally users could only refer X users per X (time) after which their referal id no longer works.
I hope people get what I'm getting at. Is there any interest in this?