Originally Posted by futureal

This is only in place until you have 5 feedbacks. It is to prevent people from registering extra accounts for the sole purpose of pumping up their own rating. Normally this won't be a big deal, since you probably won't be doing that many per day... it's just kind of a pain as we switch over. But I think it's in everybody's best interest.



The referrals occur when somebody signs up for the site and uses you as a reference (i.e. my buddy so-and-so told me about this site). They don't really mean much, just another interesting statistic really.