When I think a company is limiting invites to generate buzz, it totally turns me off. OTOH, when I can tell it's because they don't want to overload their syst

When I think a company is limiting invites to generate buzz, it totally turns me off. OTOH, when I can tell it's because they don't want to overload their systems, or are still clearly building something, I don't mind. It's really just that a "beta" is now a marketing ploy; my paragraph above is really discussing what used to be an "alpha". So to me, beta = marketing, I hate it. Alpha = testing, I love it. I'm not very good at telling them apart, tho, b/c they both call themselves beta (damn you gmail!)