Share your link with people who will add value to our discussions
We track who joins through your invites
Rewards & Consequences
Members who bring in active, positive contributors will receive rewards
Quality matters more than quantity
Inviting users who contribute thoughtfully earns you recognition
Inviting users who never participate or post low-quality content counts against you
Deliberately inviting bots or spam accounts may result in account suspension
What We Value
Contributors who engage meaningfully in discussions
Members who share knowledge and respectful perspectives
People who follow our community guidelines
If your invitees don’t engage or post low-quality content, this reflects poorly on you. Bringing in 100 users who never post or get removed will harm your standing rather than help it.
Good find! The security settings were just a bit too high. For security purposes, users need a minimum level of activity before they can create invites, specifically Trust Level 1.
It is great that you have started such an invitation system that prioritizes the quality of the community. It is the responsibility of all of us to invite members who comply with your community rules, participate in constructive discussions and share information. I am sure we will act with this awareness. Congratulations on this innovative invitation system!
thanks to point out these two points, dont you think that for invite = 10 points is much, as might be farmers can take advantage to focusing on only inviting the random/fake members..
i am not saying currently someone doing but these can be happen too in future,
I showed up, contributed meaningfully, completed tasks, and supported throughout the Metis Voyager campaign (W3DV). But in the end, no recognition, no reward. Feels like real community effort wasn’t valued — just hype. If Metis wants to build a sustainable ecosystem, rewarding community contribution should be the foundation.
Hi Keir, thank you for voicing, this your feedback is valid.
Metis has consistently run over 20+ major incentivized campaigns since 2021, each designed to reward meaningful participation. However, we acknowledge there were issues during the W3DV-led Voyager campaign, especially with the data their team submitted. Our internal audit flagged inconsistencies, which impacted rewards distribution.
That said, Hyperion hackathon is another chapter which is fully coordinated by the Metis core team, with a transparent points system, badges, and clear community contribution metrics. Your efforts here won’t go unnoticed.
These are default numbers created by discourse.org, the underlying open source software for the forum. This points structure has been refined over the course of literally decades of thousands of forums using this software. I trust that they got this right.
At the same time, you’re absolutely right that when it’s incentivized farmers may be tempted to invite random fake members. There are 2 important points here:
ALL of us need to be flagging low quality, spammy content. This will support the moderation team to remove fake users and sybils, so that only genuine quality users and content is rewarded. Just click the 3 dots below a spammy post and then the flag.
We’ll be periodically purging the site of signups of users that haven’t engaged. If we find that a particular account invited many sybils, we’ll take corrective action.
Like I said in the original post:
Inviting users who never participate or post low-quality content counts against you
Deliberately inviting bots or spam accounts may result in account suspension
