Why a few programs have no code pool here

Published Oct 22, 2026 · updated Jul 30, 2026

If you've landed on a draw page that says "no code pool here, on purpose," this is the longer explanation. The short version: some programs' own referral terms forbid what this site does, and we'd rather turn a pool off than put your account at risk.

What the terms actually say

Referral programs publish terms, and most are aimed at fraud: no self-referrals, no fake accounts, no spam. Those are easy to respect. A few programs go further and restrict where a referral link may appear at all. Rakuten is the clearest example: its Refer-A-Friend terms prohibit posting your referral link on any page you don't personally own and control, and they name forums and third-party pages specifically. A community pool is exactly that kind of page.

Why we take it seriously

The penalty for breaking those terms isn't ours to absorb. It lands on the member: forfeited bonuses, and in the worst case a closed account. A pool that quietly exposes contributors to that trade is a bad deal even when enforcement is rare, and "they probably won't notice" is not a policy. So when a program's terms rule out third-party sharing, we turn its pool off and say so on the draw page.

What that means here

Programs in that category simply aren't listed: no pool, no facts page, no spot on the board. A directory entry for a program you can't use on this site would be clutter at best and bait at worst. Articles still mention them by name where a comparison is useful, the way any review can discuss a competitor. If you want such a program's signup bonus, the honest route is the one its terms describe: a link shared personally by someone you actually know.

The other reason a pool goes dark

There's a second, quieter case: we can't confirm the program still runs referrals at all. Some sites never published referral terms, quietly retired the feature, or show a referral page to some accounts and not others. When members can't find a referral link in their own accounts and the company documents nothing, the numbers circulating online usually trace back to referral-listing sites that invented them rather than to the company.

Those programs keep their facts page, because the site itself is still worth knowing about, but the pool goes off. Collecting codes that may credit nobody wastes the contributor's time and hands the next visitor a code that quietly does nothing. You'll see the reason stated in plain words on the draw page, and if it turns out we're wrong and the program is alive, the pool comes straight back on.

How we decide

Before any program gets a pool, we read its referral terms for venue restrictions, and we re-check when we re-verify bonus facts. Programs whose rules target fraud rather than venue (which is most of them: the big survey and cashback apps actively encourage public sharing) get pools. Programs that restrict sharing to personal channels don't. If a program changes its terms in either direction, the listing follows: one that drops its personal-sharing restriction can join the pool, and one that adds it gets delisted, with a note in the next bonus check-in.