Affiliate programs seem cheesy to me. In the crypto world it's trivial to just refer yourself, so for people looking for the best return it just adds a kind of goofy step you have to take.
I've been thinking there could be rewards for being an early follower of someone who later gains more followers. (More SP in followers, technically.) A "curation" sort of thing with followers.
It would kind of be like an affiliate, cause you can ask someone to let you know right after they make their acct (just like you'd ask them to signup using your link). It's just that it helps to have SP behind your acct if you want to get rewards from it, and the rewards don't go to only one person.
Sure, you can do that if you want. Everyone who joins can have a referral bonus that goes to someone. If you want to say you referred yourself, then OK. There will still be the opportunity for people to register a lot of new people though, and get a long-term reward for bringing them in.
@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.
@full-measure not really. Your main argument against an affiliate program is that people can cheat and refer themselves. I guess I don't see the fact that some people may do that as a reason against the program. I was referred here by my brother, and if he had an affiliate link available, I would have gladly used that when I signed up. I recruited several of my friends, and I'm sure they would have been happy to signup using my referral link as well.