@timcliff but don't you feel weird asking someone to select you as their referral when they could just select themselves?

It's kind of taking advantage of the fact that they don't realize they can select themselves. Either that or it's just asking them to donate to you. Either way it feels weird to me and I would probably never try to be someone's referral.

If you bring a whale to the site you'll be naturally rewarded because someone you know will end up having SP. And maybe they'll ask you for help early on and pay you, or just give you money to thank you. A percent of their earnings for life is probably not really the right reward for happening to be the person who told them about the site.