Mark, you have my position on this whole thing wrong. I'm not saying you're ruining the exclusive. I'm saying it makes no sense to me why you would WANT to invite non-lpu members to join in on an LPU exclusive. I'm not pissed or upset about this. You're right, we didn't say "don't invite non-lpuers to the site." We thought you guys would want to keep this in the community because you're paying for exclusives like this. Again, its really up to the LPU members on what they want to try to keep as exclusive as possible. You guys are the ones paying for this stuff as members of the fan club. I thought that LPL, with all of your really cool exclusives, would "get" this more than anyone.
As I said before, it really doesn't matter to me if you guys invite non-lpuers, but it does kind of suck for the paying members of LPU who like things like this to stay exclusive. I know you guys want to get a buttload of members to join your group thing, but like I said, this is opening to the public this week, and there will be a BIG push on all LP sites and hopefully beyond that as well.
I'm not telling you to stop inviting people. Honestly, I really don't care if you do or not. But from some of the other comments in this thread, it seems like there are a lot of LPU members who wish you wouldn't.
Ok, I don't want this to turn into some huge drama thing, because it's really not that big of a deal. The site will come out of beta this week. Do what you want until then.
Edit: And as I've already said, the invite friends link isn't something we can remove. It's a part of the websites format that is unchangeable.