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Is there a way that we can recommend a friend to one of the Stack Exchange (SE) sites? Like emailing them inside of SE?

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    If you want to recommend a site to them - send them an email/IM/SMS... I don't think that this type of social "advertising" is SE's responsibility...
    – Lix
    Commented Jul 18, 2012 at 13:30
  • Why not just send an email yourself? What would emailing them from the SE site itself add?
    – Martijn Pieters
    Commented Jul 18, 2012 at 13:30
  • Just thought of a more convenient way of doing it.
    – Kevdog777
    Commented Jul 18, 2012 at 13:31
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    Also: repeat after me: the Stack Exchange is not a social network.
    – Martijn Pieters
    Commented Jul 18, 2012 at 13:31
  • "The Stack Exchange is not a social network." - I understand that.
    – Kevdog777
    Commented Jul 18, 2012 at 13:32
  • @MartijnPieters At least acknowledge cletus =)
    – Josh Darnell
    Commented Jul 18, 2012 at 13:33
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    @Lix This type of thing happens for Area51. There are even badges for it.
    – Josh Darnell
    Commented Jul 18, 2012 at 13:34
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    @jadarnel27: You know, I actually came up with it independently? "Repeat after me" is perhaps a meme, and I honestly had not seen that post!
    – Martijn Pieters
    Commented Jul 18, 2012 at 13:34
  • @MartijnPieters Just making a joke, sir.
    – Josh Darnell
    Commented Jul 18, 2012 at 13:39
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    @jadarnel27: sorry, I think I missed a :-P there.. Hereby! :-P
    – Martijn Pieters
    Commented Jul 18, 2012 at 13:40
  • As a user I'd probably mark such an email as spam.
    – CodesInChaos
    Commented Jul 18, 2012 at 14:30
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    The downvotes are unfortunate, since there's nothing to disagree with per se (it's not a feature request). But, the question is valid and deserves to stick around.
    – Adam Lear StaffMod
    Commented Aug 31, 2012 at 15:12
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    @Lix I think OP wanted something that would leave some trace in user statistics, possibly leading to badge, like in Area51
    – Cjxcz Odjcayrwl
    Commented Aug 15, 2013 at 12:32

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You can invite people into a private beta of a new site from the widget on the right sidebar, but we don't have anything like that for sites in public beta or that have graduated.

As others said, an email or an IM would be best in that case.

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In my opinion, personalized emails are more efficient at conveying a recommendation than some auto generated message like:

"X would like to recommend to you site Y"

In my opinion, the best way would be to write the message yourself.

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  • OK, understandable. Will do that then. by the way, what does IMO mean?
    – Kevdog777
    Commented Jul 18, 2012 at 13:36
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    it stands for - In my opinion....
    – Lix
    Commented Jul 18, 2012 at 13:37
  • +1 for IMO, even i didnt know that :P
    – Lucifer
    Commented Jul 18, 2012 at 13:39
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    If I could +1 I would +1, but as I can't +1 I won't +1 ... But +1 anyways.
    – Kevdog777
    Commented Jul 18, 2012 at 14:25
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    wat​​​​​​​​​​​​
    – user154510
    Commented Jul 18, 2012 at 15:10
  • Sorry @MatthewRead, I didn't have enough rep points to +1 Lix's answer :)
    – Kevdog777
    Commented Jul 18, 2012 at 15:12
  • @Kevdog777 I see :P
    – user154510
    Commented Jul 18, 2012 at 15:51
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    I can confidently attest that I have never clicked a link from an annoying autogenerated e-mail telling me my friend(s) is/are using X and I should sign up. Partly because I don't know that it came from them with their permission, and partly because I have a strongly negative knee-jerk reaction to e-mails not formatted as text/plain, but mainly because if they really found the service useful they wouldn't need to be corralled into telling me.
    – root
    Commented Aug 15, 2013 at 13:58

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