Invite problem

[Michael Keating]

When I sent out 2 Invites from gmail,
My number of invtes went from 4 to 2 (duh)

Now sometimes it goes back to 4 invites.

It does it at home and school, which means it cant be a computer.
--
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found a bug, or a feature isnt working.

[Mads Larsen]

You dont think you just got 2 more invites? ;-)

[Derek]

yeh buddy...that means your invites were replenished. don't sweat it.

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:42:12 -0500, Michael Keating <mich...@gmail.com> wrote:
>

[Michael Keating]

But it goes up and down..

[Derek]

nvm... don't worry about it. google is obviously giving you more
invites after you give some away. it happens all the time. they want
you to keep inviting more users.

[Almaz]

If I don't have any invites in the beginning Can I have them later?

I heard GMail invites distributed ramdomly,but later GM Team can give
accoding to your activity in GM! is it true???
if so, will I have them later?

[Michael Keating]

If they did it on activty i would get 2 every day becuase i use it all
the time except for sleep and periods 2-7 in school

[jimethn]

I believe it's based on activity, but there is a cap based on what
"generation" of user you are. The person who invited me was one of the
first to get a gmail account, and he had 6 invites. After inviting 4
other people, within a few days he was back up to 6 again.

I came after him, so my cap is 4 invites. I started off with none, but
gmail has been constantly running on my laptop (except when I reboot)
since I got it, so within a couple days I suddenly had 4 invites. Since
then I have been sending out a more or less steady stream of invites to
other people who request accounts from me, and due to their
replenishing, I've never actually dropped down to 0.

I'm not sure exactly what the parameters are for your "invite cap". I
don't think it ever drops below 4 no matter how many generations you go
down. I have no way of knowing, though, if it can get higher than 6,
although I know that 6 is attainable.

[alexander]

it did the same to me. I think google distributs them randomly, so I
don't think you are having a problem

[alexander]

two people i know got 10 invites and 15 invites respectivly. So you can
definantly go higher than 6 invites. Also both started with 6 and kept
getting more!

[T. M. Tracy]

yeah, I posted about getting 4 invites on 5 different accounts due to
activity...like making and recieving one email got me 4 invites
basically instant...

--
T. M. Tracy
tmt...@gmail.com

[Nigel Nguyen]

I myself got more than 30invitations come to 1 mailbox ... that's 5
times and 6 each.

regards,
nigel

--
Ask not what the computer can do for you
Ask what you can do with your computer.

[Michael Keating]

my dad had 12 5 weeks ago.. god know what he has now

[Cracell]

I have no one to give mine too, guess that one thingy again, don't
feel like looking up the email for the spoiler, oh well

--
-Cracell
http://the-system-is-down.blogspot.com/ - Read it and comment

[T. M. Tracy]

gm...@isnoop.net I think...lol

[Russ LC]

I had a spam type email a month or so ago...I reported it and walla I
got 6 invites. So, I wonder if, some interaction with the gmail team
also has to do with invite allocation.

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 19:19:10 -0800, Cracell <cra...@gmail.com> wrote:
>

[Scott Villarosa]

send them to aimlessbob @ gmail.com care of gmail-generation. he'll provide
a link back to us and the invites do go to non-gmailers. check out his site
for more info
<http://www.aimlesswords.com/archives/20050115/gmail_invite_giveaway_7/>

[Russ LC]

I think part of getting more invites is directly related to inviting
an active user, so they must beg, pay, etc...

[Scott Villarosa]

i have dormant accounts full of invites at the moment. i've never really
used them (ever) but they still get invites. there is no reason why people
get invites or don't get invites and it has nothing to do with users being
active or not. google must be loving all this speculation. i myself,
however, can't help but feel like were going over old ground here. ahem
<http://tinyurl.com/4savg>.

-----Original Message-----
From: Russ LC [mailto:russ...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, 21 January 2005 2:29 PM
To: Gmail-Ge...@googlegroups.com
Subject: [Gmail-Generation] Re: Invite problem

[Russ LC]

freakin weird..and impossible to figure out how they decide when to give

[Scott Villarosa]

yes... "impossible to figure out", unless you work on the gmail team.
someone on orkut might know, though. some google staff hang out there.

[Russ LC]

how does one get to orkut?

[Scott Villarosa]

this is off-topic. perhaps email in private next time. i'm sure someone here
can invite you to orkut (i've since cancelled my account) BUT do it
off-group please OR over on gmail-lounge.

[Russ LC]

Sorry..to many groups..what is there a URL for this one... Don't want
to make any waves

[rusim41]

I have almost exhaused my stock of invites and now I have only one
left.

Rusi

[Bonedigger]

Well, I guess you'll have to wait for more or send yourself the one
you have left, open another account and hope it gets invites soon.

[$ h a ® V @ y]

I get a replenish almost everyday, so-to-say. My cap seems to be 10,
so when i have 8 for exam, the next day, I'll have 10 again. Though,
I don't have many people to give it to. Mainly because the majority
of people (apart from avid computer users) don't know about Gmail.
Maybe Gmailshoud advertise more...anyways, but that should be another
conversation/thread

--
$ h a ® \/

[Kishyr Ramdial]

On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 10:55:17 +0200, $ h a ® V @ y <sha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I get a replenish almost everyday, so-to-say. My cap seems to be 10,
> so when i have 8 for exam, the next day, I'll have 10 again. Though,
> I don't have many people to give it to. Mainly because the majority
> of people (apart from avid computer users) don't know about Gmail.
> Maybe Gmailshoud advertise more...anyways, but that should be another
> conversation/thread

The whole invite-replenishing thing is really weird. I haven't gotten
any new invites for about two or three weeks now. I guess the public
will never know how they're distributed.

--
Kishyr Ramdial
http://kishyr.ramdial.co.za
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[Rachel Garrett]

On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 23:09:06 +0200, Kishyr Ramdial <kis...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I guess the public
> will never know how they're distributed.

Why should Gmail tell the public how invites are distributed, when
they can get all this free entertainment by reading our speculations?
*g*

When I eat an Oreo and wait between ten and fifteen minutes before
checking my e-mail, I earn an extra invite... how does Gmail know I'm
eating cookies?

--Rachel

[Kishyr Ramdial]

On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 13:14:14 -0800, Rachel Garrett <rmga...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Why should Gmail tell the public how invites are distributed, when
> they can get all this free entertainment by reading our speculations?
> *g*

Lol. Yeah. Besides, if they did let everyone know when or how they
distribute invites, it'll increase everybody's invite spam. And that
would be evil, something Google wouldn't do :)

> When I eat an Oreo and wait between ten and fifteen minutes before
> checking my e-mail, I earn an extra invite... how does Gmail know I'm
> eating cookies?

Because they're watching you using their new Keyhole technology! </jokes>

[Rachel Garrett]

On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 23:23:37 +0200, Kishyr Ramdial <kis...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Lol. Yeah. Besides, if they did let everyone know when or how they
> distribute invites, it'll increase everybody's invite spam. And that
> would be evil, something Google wouldn't do :)

Agreed. It would be exactly like specifying their PageRank algorithms.
If you say, "These are the procedures we're going to follow," it's an
open invitation (no pun intended) for people to game the system. And
you leave yourself open to complaints about people who say, "I did X
and Y, now I'm *entitled* to result Z."

Of course, I think that there's always the possibility that invites
are distributed by pigeons.

http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html

(for those who haven't seen this before...)

> > When I eat an Oreo and wait between ten and fifteen minutes before
> > checking my e-mail, I earn an extra invite... how does Gmail know I'm
> > eating cookies?
>
> Because they're watching you using their new Keyhole technology! </jokes>

LOL!