Wiki - Referrals etc

spackbace on 04/06/2015 - 14:11

In reference to the ME Bank deal…

I know Neil has acknowledged it needs a better system, and I think it really does! There's no guarantees that the referrer still has an account, so the member signing up might not even get the deal!

I refer to a comment made recently where they used a members referral details (shaun89)… problem is that the member hasn't been active on here since they signed up!

So I dont know… what if the referral system had some way of auto-pming a prompt, to see if you still had an account with the referral company? If the pm wasn't replied to or something, it auto-deleted your referral details? Or auto-deleting all referrals every 6 months or something, and you had to put them back up to show that you were still active/still had that referral account.

I can just see a lot of members missing out on that ME bank deal for using the wrong referrer :/

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  • spychiatrist on 04/06/2015 - 17:12

    If I may add, there's a question of privacy as well. Everyone's ME Bank account number is open for viewing to ALL, including GUESTS (correct me if I'm wrong MODs). Remember, some members do transact with other members thru OzBargain, so it will be easy to connect the dots (OzB Account Real Name to ME Bank Account Number), though hopefully no one will exert the effort of doing something dodgy with all the info, but who knows, right?

    This is why a random referral is the way - though as MODs said, it is difficult to setup and must have cooperation with the principal (in this case ME Bank).

    Having said that, instead of having OzB usernames side by side with their account numbers, how about just the account numbers and the number of times it's been referred to. This way, it's anonymouns, no popularity contest, and everyone has a chance to get the benefits of the referral bonuses.

    Random referrals that cycle to all members is still the best way, but as above, difficult to setup.

  • scotty on 04/06/2015 - 17:55
    +2

    Moving forward we'll need to extend our existing user-referral system to allow coupon code / referral code as well which would then work for ME Bank and others. For example you still get links for OP and (random) at the bottom of the deal. However when you click on them instead of bringing you to a random referral link, it pops up a random referral code without showing the username.

    A few parameters need to be implemented as well, for example prioritise on contributors and logged in members when code is randomly picked. It is however impossible for us to know whether a code has been used more than 10 times. Like the current wiki system it is up to the user to update / remove the code once referral limit has been reached.

    • spackbace on 06/06/2015 - 10:29

      Maybe from that popup it had a link to the site, or auto-loaded the site in a new tab, and the referral system could keep count of these click-throughs and just assume it had been reached when it had been clicked-through 10 times? Sure it's not going to be accurate, but it saves the hassle of going over the amount allowed.

  • [Deactivated] on 06/01/2016 - 14:51

    Think referrals should only be random now, don't think posters should have their referral name and code listed, kinda unfair.

    • spackbace on 06/01/2016 - 14:59

      kinda unfair.

      Why?

      • [Deactivated] on 06/01/2016 - 15:11

        Human nature and/or mateship to click on the poster's referral and not the random link. Let say the community knows a poster by name or avatar and that poster continues to copy and paste regular deals from a regular source because of inside information or they get the emails before everyone else. Then who is going to choose random?

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