At the end of the day, DCU's referral system is discontinued, so anyone asking for a referral is uninformed and wasting their time. That being said, why are the mods such sticklers for referral prohibition? I understand people were spamming the board about it, so why not just limit it to one or two threads on the topic? Having a multitude of duplicate threads is superfluous and would benefit from mod intervention, but to prohibit the topic entirely seems excessive.
Because TMC does not support referrals. This started originally with the mass of tesla referrals, because there was an incentive for people to do so. TMC then created a specific thread for tesla referrals to keep them from overwhelming the forums.
For DCU specifically, there was a financial incentive for people referring each other, so there were people here racing to either refer or get referrals here, and thats not what TMC is about.
Basically, dont do it, we dont have any desire top try to choose which referrals we will or wont support, so we dont support any of them.