Comment by nailer
7 years ago
> What's funny is that my friends in the know tell me this is how private warez torrent sites work: you invite someone, and now you're responsible for their behavior. If they mess up, you deal with them, or you might be out, too.
lobste.rs works like this too. Tree structures of invites are a great way to prune further up the tree when undesired behavior happens.
I believe only once has someone who invited a problem user been banned. That inviter contributed a feature to disable invitations and was unbanned. But I think the possibility also has a deterring effect that prompts people to exercise care.
(Context: I'm the lobsters admin.)