What is Discord Referral Program?

What is Discord Referral Program?

How it works

Attribution comes from per-member invite links, which let the bot credit the referrer when someone joins. The mechanism is easy; the fraud is not. Paying on join alone is farmed with alt accounts within a day, so a workable program pays on a delayed qualifying action instead, such as the referred member completing a quest or staying active for a week.

When to use it

Launch referrals once the community retains the members it already has. Referring people into a server they will leave wastes the goodwill of your best members.

Worked example

Pay referrals on retention, not on the join. Credit 50 points when the referred member is still active 7 days later rather than at the moment they join, and cap it at 10 referrals a month per member. Paying on join is the single most farmed mechanic in Discord growth tooling.

Common mistakes

• Paying on join rather than on a qualifying action, which is trivially farmed.
• Uncapped rewards, which turn a referral program into a paid acquisition channel with no budget.
• No cooling-off period, so a referrer is paid before the referred member does anything.

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