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A comment on Ask HN: Getting a Lobster.s Invite in '22.

Re:Ask HN: Getting a Lobster.s Invite in '22 by gregdoesit on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @09:30AM (#33420926)
Keep in mind that inviting strangers to the site carries risks. For my first ever invite I offered one for someone I didn’t know but seemed to be alright based on Twitter. That person was promptly banned for self-promotion, and I was also banned for having sent the invite [1]

Making it hard to get an invite, and not inviting strangers is by design, as I understand.

[1] https://lobste.rs/u/gregdoesit

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Re:Ask HN: Getting a Lobster.s Invite in '22 by twelve40 on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @10:03AM (#33421392)
> I was also banned for having sent the invite

wow, that's pretty wild. May need to "invite" a couple of my own backup email accounts then? Didn't realize that's a possibility.

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Re:Ask HN: Getting a Lobster.s Invite in '22 by tluyben2 on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @10:16AM (#33421543)
I think the chance of banning diminishes with the size of your user tree (as it grows). But don’t take my word for it; someone told me that but I have no proof of it.
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