📖What it means

The registered, verified person who introduced somebody new to Carol. A referring user is a SOURCE, not merely a requester: the details they supply about the newcomer are recorded on the newcomer's own person record, stamped source_kind='referral' with the referrer named, and they are often the only source there is before the newcomer says a word. What a referring user can never do is verify: vouching completes the record, it does not prove who somebody is.

📖Easily confused with

[{"term": "Asker", "distinction": "The asker is whoever wants a message carried in a relay loop. A referring user introduced the person in the first place \u2014 the two are often the same person and are never the same role."}, {"term": "Verified user", "distinction": "Being verified is about YOUR own record. Being a referring user is about somebody ELSE's. Only a verified person may refer."}, {"term": "Source kind", "distinction": "'referral' is the source KIND stamped on a fact; the referring user is the person that kind names."}]

📖Nuance

Precedence is by SOURCE, never by recency: a newer referral never overwrites what the person said about themselves, and the refusal is recorded rather than swallowed.

📖Also called

- referrer
- introducer
- vouching user

📖Filed under

Category: people.

Service: Communications.