Hello. I would like to know why invitations are disabled at TL2 despite being the normal requirement for inviting people? Is it because of the “Champion” badge exploit?
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The discussion revolves around why inviting people is disabled at Trust Level 2 (TL2). twofoursixeight initially suspected it might be due to a “Champion” badge exploit, but darkpixlz and Jagster clarified that badges are just visual and don’t affect functionality. JammyDodger revealed that the feature was intentionally disabled due to a glitch, which has since been fixed, and the invitation feature has been reset to its default setting. The glitch in question was related to an issue with the invite-redeemer, as explained by JammyDodger with a link to a relevant topic on meta.discourse.org.
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I dont think badges have anything to do with this, rather it’s Discourse default.
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The exploit that involves inviting yourself?
The badge is just visual. It doesn’t change anything.
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It was changed a little while back due to a glitch and I forgot to change it back again. 
I have now reset it back to the default. 
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Quite soon someone with much more competence tells how thing are really, but I claim it is because invitations is an feature as whole that can be used wrong. There is sharing that does almost same thing, but is safer against spammers and malicious users.
I’m totally sure badges have not any role in this. Badges are just images and part of gamification culture and gives absolut nothing but some secondary content at profile page.
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What was the glitch?
Also I just realized that the invitation glitch was still there. (inviting yourself)
That is being tracked in this topic - Invite badges from inviting yourself
There was an issue with the invite-redeemer: 2.9.0.beta12: Security fix, bug fixes and more
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