I was at 20+ hours of not sleeping when I was discussing this yesterday. I was delirious. (Age 51, doing these long work sessions back-to-back over the past week or two, still fighting the remnants of auto-immune disease, etc)

I agree there is no sign of conscious desire to want to avoid promoting signups to mitigate competition for rewards.

I later clarified (to which you even conceded the possibility) there may not be a strong incentive to promote external signups, especially given any risk/cost to doing so.

Now tie that in with a SUBconscious (hindbrain) disincentive to avoid promoting signups to mitigate competition for rewards.

smooth you may lack exposure to the field of psychology and the impact of the subconscious mind.

I am not qualifying the effect and ranking it as a priority concern. I am just an idea person. I like to add all the ideas to my set of concepts to consider before I distill.

When I am very sleepy and can't communicate nor think as clearly, this may get lost in the shuffle of crossed signals.