Brilliant..

Having a referral program would be interesting but 10% all time would be pretty heavy. Just think if 10% of your rewards were being visibly stripped away like that forever. I can see how this might work if maybe 10% of the rewards when to the referrer for the first 5 posts or something.  This could make the sock puppet situation even worse though.

Referral / affiliate program is one of the bigger omission of Steemit at the time. I have an impression that the masters of this universe are intentionally ignoring it.

Is this an idea or did this already happen? I could not find the answer in your post.

I assume its an idea and I respond to the idea:

I think its a great idea. I support that it is forever, and not limited in anyway. It would boost the "implementation of blockchain and steemit in the world". I like the idea 100%, not need to adjust it in anyway.

I will add that the referral bonus should include people signing up directly after viewing a persons post. Meaning that if some person see my post and choose to signup from that post, I would get the referral bonus forever. 

Steem on!
Lasse

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Perhaps 5% for 5 years. Doesn't destroy their incentive and gives them a date to look forward to. Also means its worth having a lot of friends not just sign up but also post good content. Gives you incentive to support and resteem them too.

Wow Craig! You've been coming up with some great idea's here lately Bro!!! I think that It would incentivize people already on the platform to bring In more people. And also, you would make sure that they were quality people, as you would now get a percentage of every post they ever put out. Brilliant:)

Isn't that funny? Whenever people doubt something and say it's "rigged to benefit the rich", they leave only to realize a few months later, the free market solved that problem with projects like this who benefit the little guy.

On Steemit, I know many people who left a while ago because they thought they were being cheated and that there was no hope of getting paid. Now, you have projects like Curie, my project - Steemplus, and now your referral program.

Another thing I want to point out is that it seems as though Steemit is going through a new phase -- "The systems phase" or "The project phase". We're in a phase right now were systems are being created to generate income instead of just blogging. Projects like the ones I stated a few seconds ago, and also projects like Steemsports for sports betting. Or guessing games, and competitions. Not just writing content.

Anyway, thanks for posting this and I hope this program runs smoothly for you and your customers. Peace!