[rrix2]

There are like five people in this thread offering invites, it's not that hard.

[silisili]

So that renders the invite system about as useful as a captcha. What's the point again?

[rrix2]

https://lobste.rs/about#invitations

> Invitations are used as a mechanism for spam-control, to slow registrations to a pace we can acculturate and to encourage users to be nice, not to make the Lobsters userbase an elite club.