Invites: Something Strange

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Avatar of HeyokaSmiles

So I'll set up 30 invites and send them, and every time so far, it comes back with 26 sent and 4 not (various reasons). Now the odds of this being true seem implausible so it makes me question whether the group invite system is working properly? Has anyone else had this? I'll keep y'all updated.

Avatar of Kookaburrra

Have had no problems.  

Avatar of playerafar


Sounds weird.  Only 26 out of 30.
Over two days - that would be 52 invites.
A full deck - but somehow the Invite function isn't playing with one ...

Avatar of JustOneUSer

4 out of every 30 invites not sending sounds about right to me

 

Avatar of HeyokaSmiles

I'll start keeping a record on how many invites send but so far 4 out of 30 every time seems implausible.

Avatar of Kookaburrra

Not really.  It’s fine.  I don’t usually send the whole 30 at once though.  Just 5-10 at a time.  

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playerafar wrote:


How many total occasions of 4 out of 30?

6 times so far. I know it's not a lot of data but still seems unlikely to me.

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Kookaburrra wrote:

Not really.  It’s fine.  I don’t usually send the whole 30 at once though.  Just 5-10 at a time.  

Maybe I'll start doing this instead then.

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6 times sounds like far beyond random chance.
180 names ....
but - did the 24 not sent - share any names in common ?

Avatar of Kookaburrra

Sometimes if the name is typed wrong and there is no valid member it doesn’t work. 

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playerafar wrote:


6 times sound like far beyond random chance.
180 names ....
but - did the 24 not sent - share any names in common ?

No I keep track of the people I've already invited to not bother them.

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Then its very weird.

Avatar of playerafar

So far.

Avatar of HeyokaSmiles

I'll do it the 30 way another 2 or 3 times but if after 3 times it's 26/30 again I'll accept there's an issue with this and go down to 5 at a time (seems tedious to me but oh well).

Avatar of Chess4Him

If a member sets their profile not to accept invites, you would "get it back", wouldn't you?

Avatar of playerafar

 

You could try 29 or 28 instead.   Or 14.  See how many don't go.

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Chess4Him wrote:

If a member sets their profile not to accept invites, you would "get it back", wouldn't you?

I get to send another 4 invites only and often when I invite 4 they don't all send which is what makes me think the 13:15 ratio is way off and I'm actually losing about 5-10 invites this way. D:

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Chess4Him wrote:

If a member sets their profile not to accept invites, you would "get it back", wouldn't you?

Yes - but its exactly four out of 30 each time. 
Chances of that randomly happening six straight times?
One in ten thousand?  More like one in a million.

Avatar of MGleason

You'll normally have several fail due to someone not accepting invites or something.  Four out of thirty is fairly typical.

To have it be exactly four several days in a row is unusual, but, given the numbers of people sending invites, it will inevitably happen to someone.  If you flip a coin a hundred times, you'll get the occasional long string of consecutive heads or consecutive tails.

Avatar of blackfirestorm

I check every single profile to make sure they have invites switched on and only put those people on the invite if they do.