Well at least you guys have referrals. I honestly can't get any referral. I'm not really worried about it though as I know myself that I have not been exerting too much effort in getting referrals. I agree with you that getting one active referral is a lot better than having 100 inactive referrals. I mean what is the use of having many referrals if none of them are even willing to work? I think if I were to take referring seriously, I'll just focus on people that I know will invest their time and effort and will take the job seriously. By the way, do you just get referral from random people by posting your link or do you have a list of prospects like people close to you?
I share with my online friends who are interested in working. Most of my referrals want to work and they really need the job. The problem comes when after joining, they can't work because they find the site to be very complicated to them. So I have to teach and explain then leave them to make a decision.
So most of them claim that are not good in writing. I don't post my link for random people. I only join Facebook groups where people talk about jobs and so we all share our links.
I personally doesn't like to make money through disturbing referrals. Because I never like if someone send my any link and say download it or join it. It look something weird. So, I always block such people who generally share referral links. Because sometime people share a link and ask to join it and vote here, and they also say that top 100 voter get some special gift. We don't have enough time to register and join something that we don't like.
I believe you are also right. Some people only spam our inbox with referral links and leave. They never take their time to explain about the site and so we end up blocking them.
As for me, I only discuss with someone who is interested and they will want to join using my link. So I let people decide and never try to convince them.