What's a "Referral"?

[Alumette]

I noticed in my profile that it says I have three referrals. What's that mean?

Have I been naughty? :(

[8 Ball]

Apparently..3 people who have joined this site used your name as a referrence as to who brought them here, or that is my understanding of it anyhoo.

[MikeKAY]

Apparently..3 people who have joined this site used your name as a referrence as to who brought them here, or that is my understanding of it anyhoo.

This would be true...

When you sign up to make an account there is a little space to put who referred you to the forum. Apparently three people have done so. To the best of my knowledge this dates back to the Old Pc.com when a referral was worth a certain (100?) amount of influence, our old currency.