mod_invites_tracking/README.md
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---
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labels:
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- 'Stage-Alpha'
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summary: 'Store who created the invite to create a user account'
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Introduction
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Invites are an intermediate way between opening registrations completely and
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closing registrations completely.
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By letting users invite other users to the server, an administrator exposes
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themselves again to the risk of abuse.
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To combat that abuse more effectively, this module allows to store (outside
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of the user’s information) who created an invite which was used to create the
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user’s account.
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Details
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Add to `modules_enabled`.
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Caveats
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- The information is not deleted even when the associated user accounts are
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  deleted.
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- Currently, there is no way to make any use of that information.