Quoting from the original "about" post: >Invitations >Not for exclusivity, but rather, invitations will be used as a spam-control mechanism. New users must be

Quoting from the original "about" post: >Invitations >Not for exclusivity, but rather, invitations will be used as a spam-control mechanism. New users must be invited by a current member and invitations will be unlimited (unless scaling problems temporarily prevent new accounts). If spammers are invited to the site and banned, the user that invited them may also be banned, going up the chain of invitations as needed. https://lobste.rs/s/bkeYe9/about_lobsters https://lobste.rs/s/bkeYe9/about_lobsters