That's exactly what I was thinking. If people can't get something on their own, it automatically becomes more desirable. We just have to figure out a way to keep people from inviting faggots. How 'bout if you invite somebody and they get banned within a certain amount of time you get banned for inviting a faggot?
That was a semi-serious idea, I understand that you couldn't ban the inviter without the forum dying. It would make more sense to limit the number of invitations that they are allowed to zero for say a few weeks/months. Also I'd limit the number of invitations that regular users get to say 5 and they only get more if they meet a certain criteria of say at 500 posts they get another invite, then at 1k they get 3, etc. etc. For Elite I'd say like 15, seeing as they contributed to the site monetarily so it would make sense that they get more. Sponsor should get 30 - unlimited as they contribute the most money for the rank that they have. Thoughts on this idea?