It's possible. I remember when I first joined Reddit as /u/havires... I got gold myself from a friend and then got shadowbanned right after for whatever reason. That was no fun. Anyway I'm happy I found this site.
Glad to have you! We don't have any shadow banning functionality here so you (and your friends) should be good.
Well I kind of lost track of the friend who gave me gold... He... I don't know... I should send him an email and see if he's still alive. I've been reading my ass off and noticed that. :D I'm trying to bring people through like... Cold calls. Just posting an interesting post in my FB and letting it set there. I'm sure somebody will click and join sooner or later.
Sweet! The more the merrier - as long as they aren't total fuckwits. I'll let you be the judge of what constitutes a fuckwit vs not fuckwit. :-P