jayeff

If people believe you are, blame the board persona you chose to create. As to the superficial logic of the rest of that post, it doesn't bear too much examination.

Regardless of the reality that for the reasons you describe, in the short term this episode may not have cost sponsors using Zango very much money, AFF and cams.com in particular have gone from being almost universally admired to being despised or at best, tolerated. Which means that over the next 5-10 years, as sites like yours fade from the scene, they will increasingly feel the impact.

There are two possibilities. One is that the people running these programs are nowhere near as smart as we believe and they simply didn't anticipate the reaction. That isn't too likely in view of Lars' unrepentent attitude once it blew up.

The other is that they were already planning to work without affiliates, so they really didn't care if this made the smaller ones drop. They anticipated that bigger affiliates would react as you have. Which is fine for you, so long as this is as far as they are going.

But they basically have you by the short and curlies. As soon as you try to reduce the risk of being so heavily exposed to someone who might be considering doing without affiliates altogether, there goes your bonus, etc. As dumb as you try to tell the rest of us we are, you got yourself into this situation by allowing yourself to become so dependent on one income source. That's about as dumb as it gets...