[Alan_SP]

Originally Posted by vissa

I referred people I don't believe I have (never used my referral id).. Any idea why this is? Could the referral table be corrupt or the query not correct?

You don't need to give anyone your referral ID link, it's enough that someone uses your username when registering as referral and that's it.

I also have people who referred me as they referral. Some of them I know, some don't, but main thing is, I never used referral link. You couldn't be certain why someone chooses to use someone else as their referral.

On side note, I needed to change instructions (phrase) for error when someone gives wrong (not registered) username as their referral. As you know, when you register, there's a field for your referral. And many users think they need to fill all fields, referral one included. If they give wrong username, system won't let them proceed with registration. That's why there may be some strange referrals.

This referral thing especially might be confusing for unexperienced users who don't know why they can't register. Anyway, this is reason I changed error phrase for wrong referral user, specifying that they don't need to give referral to register.