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The new-member gate was refNewDays: 30, a rolling window, on a site whose oldest account is 19 days old. It therefore excluded nobody. Every referral payment made today, 8.67 POL across nine people, went to a sponsor for an existing member hunting. Not one was an acquisition, which is the entire purpose of the mission. The gate is now an absolute date, refNewAfter, set to the morning the mission went live. Anyone whose account predates that moment was already a member by definition and can never earn their sponsor a bounty, a match or the launch bonus, however much they hunt. The 30-day window stays as a secondary rule so a dormant signup cannot trigger a bounty a year later. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>