Plays

The three you start with

• Congratulate on a role change.
• Welcome on a connection accepted, only ever as the first thing said to that person.
• Comment on a new post, in public, on the substance of what they wrote.

Guards every play respects

• One play fires per person per event. Two messages about the same job change is the clearest sign nobody typed them.
• A cooldown, so the same play cannot fire at the same person again for months.
• A quiet period, so somebody contacted recently by any route is left alone.
• A first-touch play cannot open a conversation that already exists, including one you started by hand.
• Anybody with a live conversation is skipped entirely.

Why nothing happens on day one

Because every play is off. The first thing a new account should do is read your network rather than write to it, and turning a play on before you have seen what it would say is how people end up approving in bulk.

Turning plays on and off in the help centre