Well, as far as I know, many newbies even haven't completed 5 to 10 posts which does not satisfy any referral contest requirements. Moreover, it's impossible to win the active referral contest because it requires minimum 20 referrals to be active through the month.

Of course, there are some new members who stopped posting after a while but if you really notice they are not referrals of anyone. They just joined themselves and leaving themselves. The main reason was because of too much warning by the moderator and the reason was they were making very short posts.

Even the guy Ahmar2 was warned and deducted several times who was about to leave the site. I just convinced him to stay there claiming don't miss such a good forum and guided them how to avoid spams, though he is not my referral nor anyone referral. My intention is just to motivate new members to stay in the forum.