inviter

Forcing myself to become an inviter is the only path out of loneliness.

It's sort of like private trackers invites, if an invitee is misbehaving, both the invitee and the inviter will be punished for it.

If you found a balloon, you got $2000, plus your inviter got $1000, plus their inviter got $500, etc, etc.

A practical example of this can be seen in lobsters invite system, where if too many of the invitee accounts post spam, the inviter is also banned.

Being the inviter means you get to choose who to invite.

Seems like buying an invite, and figuring out the inviter would be the simple way to identify the person.

If the inviter's karma drops below a certain threshold, he/she can't invite more people.

Kono asks the participants on inviter's behalf if they don't have the app.

The inviter needs to know your email address to send you an invite.

If the inviter screws up, everyone they invited may also get looked at.

Combine that with pointing the inviter at someone else who is also invited and you can politely express that your presence is not necessary.

For most of those you invited, you were both the person initially posting the invitee's relevant unseen domain and the inviter for that invitee.

There are "Get your invites!" contests every day that don't require anything but a reply, a retweet, a link to the inviter's website.

There are people on HN (or probably other sites, maybe Reddit?) who will invite "strangers", but typically we want to have some idea what the person is like, as an invite creates a permanent link (on the site) between the inviter and the invitee.

The "busy person" didn't ask to be put on the spot to decide whether the inviter's social capital is insufficient to overcome their busy-ness or lack of interest in the intro or whatever reason they have for declining, so you shouldn't put them in that spot.

If you keep track of the invite tree, you can "prune" it as needed to reduce moderation load: low quality users don't tend to be the source of high-quality users, and in the cases where they are, those high quality users tend find other people willing to vouch for them faster than their inviter catches a ban.