The discussion revolves around the absence of invite tracking on user profiles when Single Sign-On (SSO) is enabled, a feature users like tobiaseigen and AmiAthena miss. They express a need for a paper trail to track topic invitations, especially for accountability. codinghorror initially states it’s not possible, but AmiAthena tests the system and finds that a rate limit exists only for individual topic invitations, not generally. techAPJ confirms the rate limit applies specifically to individual topic invitations, not overall invite activity.
I just discovered that the invites tracking page is missing on user profiles, when SSO is enabled. I miss this even though it’s only used now for inviting existing users to topics, because I’d like to be able to see whether the people I have invited to topics have actually gone to look at the topic. Would like to see this feature return, and also include a reference to the topic.
Also, and relatedly, there appears to be no way for moderators and admins to keep an eye on invitations to topics. It seems to me there should be some paper trail so there is accountability in case it turns out someone is abusing the invites system. Even assuming nobody is abusing it, it’s still nice to know if it’s being used, by whom, how often, and to which topics!
Yeah, it seems like it could be pretty easy to notification-spam somebody by inviting them to all the topics. I haven’t tried doing it yet, so I don’t know if there’s any anti-spam measures in place.
I decided to be merciful and spam his test account instead of his main. I think I’ve done a couple dozen so far and it hasn’t tried to stop me, except when I accidentally clicked the same topic twice and it said he was already invited. Any idea what the rate limit is supposed to be?
