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Technical Support / Referral Program - Does it work yet? How does it work? Is it worth the effort?
« on: December 05, 2015, 02:11:06 pm »
I've searched all over this forum and the main bitshares website trying to figure out how someone can make money using the referral program and have had no luck. From my own experience it appears to work this way :
So from everything I can easily find documentation-wise, angry bitshares user post-wise and my own experience-wise it appears to work as outlined above. Did I miss something? Where did I go wrong outside of thinking I could make money for myself instead of for others by referring people to bitshares? If I were to actually see some money come my way for a referral would I have to wait months before I ever received it? Where can I find out how the referral program actually works? Why isn't there a big link somewhere anywhere easily found that explains how it works, how I will get paid, when I will get paid, how much I will get paid? Am I supposed to spend a few weeks sorting through forum post to piece together small bits of information and form my own opinion of how it works or did someone with bitshares do this already and is hiding the link from the rest of the known world? Winter is coming and the children are weak and hungry because only one of their referrals want to buy a lifetime membership in bitshares due to the system constantly changing, fees constantly changing and lack of easily decipherable words that explain how the system works from week to week after the changes.
https://bitshares.org/technology/referral-rewards-program
What is the point of this page? I learned absolutely nothing about how the program actually works, what I'm supposed to do to get started, how my referral link should be formatted, who I'm supposed to be referring people to and on and on. I don't care how bitshares used paypals model and telling me it's built for viral growth while not explaining how the hell I'm supposed to make it go viral is like me trying to explain algebra to Hodor, it makes no goddamn sense. Someone should get paid for referring people to a single page of information that explains in great detail how this viral game changing system works and how it's supposed to be used. Instead I've wasted half a day piecing together loose ever changing information that appears to tell me that even if I do convince some schmuck to buy a lifetime membership all of the money will go to some big exchange and I get to wait on a bugfix and maybe one day I'll see some profit for all of my work. How am I supposed to feed the children of Winterfell under this type of system?
@hodor do you know? Does anyone here know? Also this question about "How many legs does a cat have?" continually tells me my answer is wrong. I've yet to see a cat in Winterfell with more than 3 legs left, people are hungry!
- I work weeks attracting users to bitshares.
- Jill signs up under my referral link.
- No money comes in to me for referring this person to openledger.
- openledger makes money off of Jill's fees for trading.
- I work more weeks attracting users to bitshares.
- Bill signs up under my referral link.
- Bill pays for a lifetime account.
- openledger gets all the funds for Bill's upgrade to lifetime due to some bug in bitshares.
- openledger makes money off of Bill's fees for trading.
- See step 1
So from everything I can easily find documentation-wise, angry bitshares user post-wise and my own experience-wise it appears to work as outlined above. Did I miss something? Where did I go wrong outside of thinking I could make money for myself instead of for others by referring people to bitshares? If I were to actually see some money come my way for a referral would I have to wait months before I ever received it? Where can I find out how the referral program actually works? Why isn't there a big link somewhere anywhere easily found that explains how it works, how I will get paid, when I will get paid, how much I will get paid? Am I supposed to spend a few weeks sorting through forum post to piece together small bits of information and form my own opinion of how it works or did someone with bitshares do this already and is hiding the link from the rest of the known world? Winter is coming and the children are weak and hungry because only one of their referrals want to buy a lifetime membership in bitshares due to the system constantly changing, fees constantly changing and lack of easily decipherable words that explain how the system works from week to week after the changes.
https://bitshares.org/technology/referral-rewards-program
What is the point of this page? I learned absolutely nothing about how the program actually works, what I'm supposed to do to get started, how my referral link should be formatted, who I'm supposed to be referring people to and on and on. I don't care how bitshares used paypals model and telling me it's built for viral growth while not explaining how the hell I'm supposed to make it go viral is like me trying to explain algebra to Hodor, it makes no goddamn sense. Someone should get paid for referring people to a single page of information that explains in great detail how this viral game changing system works and how it's supposed to be used. Instead I've wasted half a day piecing together loose ever changing information that appears to tell me that even if I do convince some schmuck to buy a lifetime membership all of the money will go to some big exchange and I get to wait on a bugfix and maybe one day I'll see some profit for all of my work. How am I supposed to feed the children of Winterfell under this type of system?
@hodor do you know? Does anyone here know? Also this question about "How many legs does a cat have?" continually tells me my answer is wrong. I've yet to see a cat in Winterfell with more than 3 legs left, people are hungry!
