Referrals

[The Little Guy]

If you were to allow people to enter in a referrer email, or user name, how would you check to see that person isn't registering again just to give their other account more privileges.

 

I want to add referrer links, and if someone gets someone else to sign up, the person who was referred will get an extra 10MB (or so) of space on their account.

 

What actions would you take to try to keep re-registering to a minimum?

 

One action I thought of was to place an announcement saying: "If a user is caught referring them self, we have a right to remove all accounts and all files without warning for that user."

[ShoeLace1291]

You could get the user's IP and insert that into whatever table you have for your users and at the beginning of your register script just query the ip found on that page and if the script finds one or more rows with that IP then don't display the register script.

[pocobueno1388]

You could get the user's IP and insert that into whatever table you have for your users and at the beginning of your register script just query the ip found on that page and if the script finds one or more rows with that IP then don't display the register script.

 

Well, we all know how well IP tracking works...basically it doesn't. It will stop some, but with anyone who knows anything about computers, they will easily bypass this IP check.

 

There really isn't much you can do...just give them a warning that hopefully will scare them, then do random checks on accounts checking for obvious clues for two people being the same person.