Mean People Suck! lol but its true they do.
One thing people who think its profitable or cool to be an asshole should realize is that before they spew out their hate, greed and anger at others that stuff all has to come through them first. All the anger and lies and negativity has to pass through them before they can deliver it to others. So the Karma as it were is instant. That's why I try to let the little things go and take a step back and a deep breath whenever I think someones insulting or attacking me. Many times it's just a misunderstanding or the persons having their own problems and it's got little to do with me. So if I take that mental step back and deep breath I can have a chance to reframe the incident in a positive light . Ask myself ok whats really going on here, how can I learn from this?
It's like the story of a man on a bus and there are these two kids acting up and yelling and running around like little kids do creating chaos. So the mans getting upset not being able to relax on the way to work he goes the to kids father and reads him the riot act about controlling his kids and respecting others etc etc.. Well the father then explains how sorry he is. Explains that the kids just lost their mother to cancer last night and they are having a hard time dealing with it. BAM! the man feels like shit. He has to reframe the situation because now he realises he can't always know whats going on with another persons life and why people do things or say things and maybe not everything revolves around him.
Does it pay to be a good guy? Depends what you mean by pay. I think it's very rewarding to be a good human being. I think its not about the number of joins you make but the good traffic trades you make along the way to more joins!
Good health and good relationships is vastly more rewarding than good stats which one achieves by hook or by crook.
I think the same life rules that our grandparents tried to teach us as children apply even now as porn webmasters or whatever we are doing. They said,
"do onto others as you would have them do onto you" and " if you don't have something good to say don't say anything at all". That's a great starting point for anyone in business or life in genera. They also said "Play nice" hehe and I agree with that too. You get much further in life by working with others than being small minded and a "asshole".